I want to show you the sky…
Posted on | January 11, 2010 | 15 Comments
At some point on our trip, I started compulsively recording things on the video-camera in my phone. The road, the endlessly flat horizon, the way the setting sun turns everything to gold, but mainly I filmed the sky.
Everything is bigger in Texas. The sky is bigger in Texas.
and I’ve always loved the sky. When I was a kid, I used to spread our old sheets out in the front yard and lay on my stomach and read books. When my arms would get tired from holding me up, I’d flip over and watch the clouds floating overhead. Sometimes I saw shapes, but more often I was content to simply observe their passage and think about how the earth was spinning too.
Lately I’m nostalgic about everything. I’m nostalgic about the present. Sometimes it feels like the beauty around me is almost suffocating and I want to get it down on paper, or film, or anything. I want to preserve it and I want my memories to stick. Like in the Parent Trap… remember that? Grandpa smelling of tobacco and peppermint?
So, I made a video of our trip. It’s nothing fancy, but I hope you’ll see what I mean about the sky.
I want to show you the sky. from sam wedelich on Vimeo.
Love,
Sam
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January 11th, 2010 @ 11:53 am
hi Sam, you don’t know me but i love your video. the part with your mom made me want to cry and the parts with the birds made me want to sing. i’m extremely sentimental as well. warning: it gets worse as you age
thanks for sharing this. it was lovely. ps. love love love your music as well. cheers! sheila
January 11th, 2010 @ 12:20 pm
hi sheila! thanks for writing and i’m so glad you liked the video… the bird parts are my favorite of all! -sam
January 11th, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
I love it. GREAT JOB on the music! As I was watching it I was like, I bet they did the music too. You guys are so inspiring. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
January 11th, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
Boy do I ever know that feeling. It’s why I write so much, why I take so many pictures. I wish I could figure out a more perfect way of keeping all those memories alive and vibrant and HERE, but until then, your video seems like it comes pretty close. Beautiful.
January 11th, 2010 @ 2:05 pm
thanks amanda.
zan- i totally feel that when i read your writing or see your pictures too… this is the side of technology that i absolutely love.
January 11th, 2010 @ 2:47 pm
Did you do the music yourself? I love it and would like to know who wrote and performed it. I’m not very sentimental but I’d like to make more videos too.
January 11th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
Hi Angelina- Yes, well my husband and I did the music. He played guitar and tambourine and mixed it and I played the accordion. Send me a link someday when you make your own video, I’d love to see it!
January 11th, 2010 @ 3:37 pm
Wow, you know it takes me a little longer to put it together, I love love loved the music and just thought it was some unique artist that you had found. Excellent!
January 11th, 2010 @ 4:13 pm
thanks lex! i’ll pass that along to russ too, he’ll be really pleased you liked it!
January 11th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
This feels like home. And I’m from the midwest. Also, the accordion clearly suits you; I can’t wait to hear what you guys put together with it!
January 11th, 2010 @ 6:26 pm
Beautiful video. Some people are just good, which can be frustrating to the rest of us, who feel like we have to work so hard to make pretty things. You my friend, are a natural.
January 11th, 2010 @ 7:44 pm
Listen Lady – I want the soundtrack to this video. You guys are so ridiculously talented – it’s, well, ridiculous so please share the love!
January 11th, 2010 @ 8:12 pm
thanks anton… i’ve had a lot of practice too though
January 12th, 2010 @ 12:31 am
Sam, what a lovely video. It reminds me a lot of Saskatchewan, where I used to live, where the sky was that big and overwhelmingly beautiful. I am one of the most sentimental people ever; I romanticize pretty much everything; I am always full of nostalgia. So this post? This post is right up my alley.
xo
Jen
PS. I fear I’m becoming one of those people that somehow manages to post a comment on Every Single Post. Hope that’s cool.
January 12th, 2010 @ 12:54 am
jen- it’s definitely cool! i’m really glad you liked the video