The quality in video.

Video as a format, for me, comes off in a vary honest way. The quality in black and white and the quality in color seems almost surreal. There is something about the way motion is captured in video that lingers in my mind. Video congers memories of seeing old cheap soap operas, public access shows and the first pornography I ever saw. This all goes back to the realization at the time that you can do anything with a movie. The extremes of emotions and stories to tell are covered and explored. This was the time period in my life that doors opened in the way I thought about movies and film. I also started skateboarding for the first time around this period in my life (I stopped for no reason and picked it up around 8 years later). Skateboard videos made at that time I saw were more of a raw documentary of the skateboards life and had heavy tones of experimental film in them. Much unlike the straight to the point feel of most modern skateboard videos. The motion and quality that video presents is nostalgic to me.