tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post3304262570629100038..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: What ever happened to making home movies?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-17522892170324277062013-09-30T14:38:17.926-04:002013-09-30T14:38:17.926-04:00And they only record up to 2 minutes of footage. C...And they only record up to 2 minutes of footage. Camcorders could do 2 hours easy. It's pathetic.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-42427142001310352602013-09-30T14:20:58.995-04:002013-09-30T14:20:58.995-04:00The smart phones and the like appear to be replaci...The smart phones and the like appear to be replacing the old home movies. But such things are not shared in family get-togethers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-31809331135549521982012-02-02T04:06:28.912-05:002012-02-02T04:06:28.912-05:00One of my home movies shows me running around the ...One of my home movies shows me running around the back yard at age 4. I clothes-lined one of my brothers, who was only 2, and my dad only said help him up and tell him I was sorry.<br /><br />People really did have a higher tolerance for physical stuff. If we acted up, it was pretty likely we'd get spanked. But hey, our butts turned out fine. Spanking gave them more of a workout than vegging out in front of a PlayStation.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38959538913181626752012-01-31T20:07:41.991-05:002012-01-31T20:07:41.991-05:00My brother and I took my parents' stash of VHS...My brother and I took my parents' stash of VHS tapes from our childhood (late 80s/early 90s) and converted them onto dvds for a few hundred bucks as a Christmas gift to my mom. When I went over there last week for her birthday, we watched some she and dad had picked out as favorites (I'm going to upload one that is really wild of myself and three friends in which I break my friend's arm as we're making our own version of "3 Ninjas". The crack is really loud!). And she recorded much of the night ... with a new camcorder she just bought!<br /><br />I hadn't realized (though I should've, not least from reading you) just how much more restrictive adults have become in a couple short decades. In one, my 7 yo cousin is doing running back flips into one of those yard pools that has about 2 feet of water in it and my parents and aunts and uncles are cheering her on. Said my mom as we watched it, "I can't believe we were encouraging that. She could've broken her neck!"Audacious Epigonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495507254628580077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3145204281807405732012-01-30T20:09:21.141-05:002012-01-30T20:09:21.141-05:00Maybe it's just my memory, but in my family ho...Maybe it's just my memory, but in my family home movies stopped around the time VHS tapes were going out of style but before anyone had a smart phone.<br /><br />Since you have an interest in rates of violence over time:<br />http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/01/30/politics-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-times-23000/TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-28300271834308590302012-01-30T15:27:32.153-05:002012-01-30T15:27:32.153-05:00I think its also that the narcissistic younger gen...I think its also that the narcissistic younger generation doesn't want to be videotaped, for fear of destroying their inflated self-images, both in their own eyes and in the eyes of others. Its too hard to portray a false front when you're live, in-motion(unless you're a sociopath). Body language, mannerisms, voice inflection, verbal fluency, and how others orient towards you and react to you all give away just exactly where you stand in the hierarchy.<br /><br /><br /><br />Look at the dearth of videotapes on facebook, and the plethora of staged photographs. Its relatively easy to look cool and important through photographs but almost impossible to do so through a live videotape.<br /><br />For instance, a guy takes a picture of himself with two girls on each of his sides, smiling and looking directly at the camera, and posts it on facebook. People think he's really something. But say a videotape is taken of the social occasion where that picture was taken. Even just five mintues of videotaping could demonstrate that the guy has a submissive demeanor.<br /><br />Same applies to women and attention-whoring. A girl posts pics of herself on facebook acting wild and crazy, but less than five mintues of videotape could show that she's actually insecure and shy. <br /><br /> When one looks at a videotape of one's self, the effect is often demoralizing. "Am I really like that???" Of course, in rising-crime geneations, people want to know what they are really like, people want to face their flaws - they have to know, to survive the harsh world they live in. But in narcissistic low-crime periods, people avoid honest self-appraisal. They'd rather gaze at the staged photograph than face the reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com