New Footage!

This is how I've been spending moments of free time over the past few months. A mix of timelapse, low-light, and "self-shooting"; edited to a 4-minute speech that played at my friend Sergio's South African wedding. He pushed really hard for me to move to L.A. & get serious about my career, so I think the speech ties together an otherwise unrelated series of shots.
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Quote from "The New World"

This is film-related I suppose, but what I have to say about it isn't. It's a voiceover segment from Terrence Malick's The New World, said by John Smith (Colin Farrell's character) to describe his impression of the Native Americans:

They are gentle, lovin', faithful, lacking in all guile and traitory. The words denoting 'lying,' 'deceit,' 'greed,' envy,' 'slander' and 'forgiveness' have never been heard. They have no jealousy. No sense of possession. Real, what I thought a dream.

This struck me because it's exactly how I felt about my first visit to the Oregon Country Fair. Some things I'd been searching for all my life, consciously or subconsciously, came to the fore during the nine short hours I spent there last year. Strangers treated each other like family. No one seemed to feel judged. Of course, it's not realistic to live off the land and deny my civility every day. But it's inspiring to see a place where it can happen at least once a year.