make private media
Sometimes I am quite annoyed that I have lived my entire life in a digital age. Everyone around me has their heads in their screen. I can't really say much, I spend just as long on my computer each day as some of my friends spend on tik too. If I am bothering to ratify that then most of my time on my computer is productive and the leisure I do get from it is healthier than watching tik toks(it should be noted that technology can be used for leisure and productivity simultaneously, eg: blogging). But I don't actually want to ratify it today.
20 years ago, I assume that most people didn't carry around video cameras that connected to the internet and broadcasted their view to strangers on the internet. But something I have actually seem in movies is "home videos/movies". So before we all had internet machines in our pockets, it was still normalised to film you family and loved ones? Not for broadcast but for the sake of private media.
I think this is a wonderful idea, while I dont have experience with home videos because well, "there's a camera on your phone why would you ever need to buy a seperste camera", said the mother of the photographer.
If someone in my family has ever gone to take a photo of me or us, they would say "smiiiiilleeeee". Thats performance, and when I think about it I dont know if the thing to do to capture memories is to put on a performance rather than carry a digicam in your pocket and occasionally capture memories of you and your friends or family in the moment.
Similarly to Hermans [Commodification of travel] (https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-commodification-of-travel/), you cannot do a place and you cannot do a moment. Especially not while performing for an internet box that will gamble a photo of you on the attention economy.
I am going to try and find a digicam at an op shop and I am going to start making home videos for and of my family. Make private media, not for performance but for yourself.