Tapping In

Beeman,
I am the self that is a summation of the different experiences that develop my personal character and inform my personal narratives. I have been trying to understand this for a while. First I looked at the beat geration. Beat Brothers Productions is the label I have worked with to sign my video work. I wanted BBP to be a translation into Beatnik Brothers Producions. My Peers and I felt that they were on to something interesting as far as playing with words and the social context that were created and defined once placed in context. Beat Brothers Productions eventually fizzled in obscurity after high school. Many of the members dissolved into society, but a few of us still remember the wave that we were riding on. It was glorious Beeman. The digital revolution was starting up from grassroots and we were part of that future. Eventually I decided that I could not just limit my self to being a poetic video artist. I needed to be poetic but also have the conceptual development through process so that I could be articulate about the images and sounds and words and narrative that I wanted to Create. I came to Film because I saw it as the pinnacle of common language. I still hold this truth to be self evident. I believe that a video artist can make a high concept piece that can be put into context of a fine art space but also work to connect the masses to their media by using visual common language and visual short hand. I will post a few videos that I felt were formative to getting to this point in thought because it is pretty radical to look at my peers and say "hey i respect what your doing, but my mom and dad will not want to sit and stare at your shit for longer than a second because they will not understand." My parents came from humble roots, never finishing high school and even migrating illegally to a new country. They understand where they came from and know where they want their children to go. I just draw the line with high concept when artist creates aesthetics in a gallery dialogue, once your a prissy ass working with specialized language for your trade i feel like you become a pompous asshole who says "look at how much i learned to make up concepts for my themes." I believe that aesthetics should complement conceptual development in the service of the greater dialogue that connects rich and poor, educated and ignorant. Most importantly I find it soul crushing when I tell my characters that these greater morality questions are informed on our experience together but then explaining it in a way that they feel like I'm tricking or doping them. I love art that can make sense as mass media but that could also be taken to the art world and examined as a part of the greater dialogue.

Well, that was really long winded. Here are some videos that I was attracted too before I started writing about this in abstract terms.