I spent almost all night last night editing video. I tried to take a break every fifteen minutes, but each time I would get up, about an hour had passed. I have downloaded a few public domain and open source videos from the 40's and 50's, a car commercial, an instructional video on why you shouldn't wash clothes with gasoline, and etc. I also have a good number of videos of pin-ups in Teaserama shows. I'm editing these together for a short music video.

It's really odd to take something that was already put together and take things from it. You can completely change the "story" of the video. It really is "taking something out of context" on a new level. For example, you can take a video of three ladies having fun tying each other up and spanking each other, I guess it was a stag film or something from the 50's, and edit out all the smiling and laughing and have I guess a bondage film. Maybe that was the best they could do in the old days, the closest they could get to bondage.

My goal is to simply edit a few things I enjoy together for a fun little video. I've edited out little bits from about half of the videos I have to work with. I'm going to put all these little bits together in some form, maybe even have some kind of narrative. It's not easy. One of these days, I hope to do all of this with my own material. I imagine it would be a slight bit easier project if you had a narrative first and shot video for that instead of creating your own with pieces from other videos. Right now, it's like a have a huge pile of puzzle pieces that all fit together. There are almost endless possibilities, which is good, but I want to make my own puzzles.

Oh well. Time to eat and then edit.

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