Jay and I used to own video cameras. I think I got my first when working in Bahrain in the late 80s. Carrying around these huge devices were a struggle but we were younger. At least a decade ago, I dumped a whole lot of old video footage on YouTube. It was a great place to store piles of old, 8mm tapes. I must have hours of unedited, long-form, old-school video saved online. Most of it dates back to the 90s.
Nowadays the Internet is all about inane, short videos though. They are predominately used as a way to waste a human's finite time on this earth. I still have never bothered with TikTok, not because I'm worried about its Chinese owner but because I think the whole idea is an addictive misuse of one's precious hours.
That said, I'm totally about documenting our lives. Why else would I have over 44000 images save on Flickr? So, perhaps it is time to start thinking more seriously about using the technology so easily available at my fingertips. I don't think I've deliberately shot video on my present phone. But if I get a new drone, I'll have a additional method to capture short video.
This uploading test above means that this aging cat has moved on to another life. This clip doesn't have comments nor was the shot planned. I simply wanted to relearn how to upload to YouTube. I had no idea how long it takes to upload a minute of standard video on a medium Internet connection. The one-take file is a 55-second clip of our Airbnb in Cape Town, South Africa.