Videolets

I have been continuing my project of cataloging all my photos, and have launched into the subproject of organizing the video snippets I have. Video baffles me a good bit, coming from a background in still photography. There are many situations where a bit of video captures a subject or a scene much better than a still photograph — think of imaging a river at full flood — but such snippets even if edited together don’t make for a full-fledged video. Or to put it another way, if YouTube videos are the dominant force in video production these days, they are rhetorically a very different medium from still photography even if the stills are augmented with a bit of video.

Maybe the way forward is to embrace video snippets as their own art form — let’s call them videolets. These could work well in a blogging context, for one thing.

In this light, here is a videolet of Winston making a big leap. At night he likes to sleep on top of the bookcase in my office. But he usually takes a shortcut to get down from the bookcase!