I sat in my living room with my dogs last weekend. We were watchin a documentary called "From Austin to Boston" on netflix and it was pretty good. The music was pretty good. I dug the sound of the three British gals. But what really got me thinking was what the narrator said at the beginning. Now I'm not sure exactly what he said, but it was something to the effect of, it was a hard project and it was hard to find people to work on it. It was 2 weeks of touring in vw buses and living at campgrounds from Austin TX to Boston MA... and I thought to myself... well that guys an idiot. Not because he did a bad job, but for someone to think that was hard work is just insane to me. I am a Cameraman by trade. I went to school for several years and trained on all positions in a production crew, but camera is where I found my calling. My whole career as a cameraman has been built on those projects that guy was talkin about. Traveling for 5 hours to film for 1 and then pack up and head to the next spot. Living out of the back of my Toyota SUV Gandalf the Grey and camping in tents and in the car and under the stars. I live for stuff like that... I've even taken part time Jobs to help support my creative habit. I don't know where that guy found his crew, but two weeks on the road with my camera sounds like the best fuckin time in the world. Living out of cabins and my backpack is my idea of a vacation. Anyway... rant over I guess. I guess I'll keep living the dream as a traveling cameraman for hire.
