Initiation of Vlog

03.17.11 Midday

While you eat breakfast you sit at the computer and watch a few youtube videos in your subscriptions box. Somehow you stumble upon a video about 11 seconds long titled day 21 or something like that. It featured bits of video of a fellows day edited together - like snapshots of fluid recollection. You watch all 20 or so videos on his channel in high admiration. While you exercise and shower you have an impulse. You locate Trishes flip video cam and see how it works. you make a quick recording and then figure out how to erase it. Perhaps you'll experiment with just the same format: throughout your day you will record moments, trim them down before you get to sleep, and upload them. You toy with the notion of doing something different so that it is not complete imitation. However, you quite like what the idea is. Perhaps you will also write up a short daily related blog and attach a link to the video.

You believe that such an experiment with video recording and journaling will assist in the endeavor toward self-knowledge. For one, you will be aware of leaving/arriving, the shift of roles, boundaries, and thresholds in a much more acute manner as you will be documenting the transitions of life - the traveling, the meals, breaks, the lulls in engagement with that which is at hand, etc. You will also be allowing for 'memory' to have deeper hold. That is, the dual process of video recording and right recollection of events in the written form will likely foster and concentrate the skillfulness of your associative and recollective powers. This is something you've noticed to be worthy of effort: it seems that the tendency of 'diffusion' has greater pull or gravity when Techniques of Self are employed. In different terms you are in a position to be far more

in-touch with yourself when you allow time to remember your 'ultimate concerns' a few moments during the day. Less fragmentation, less indulgent negativity, less distraction seeking.

Perhaps you'll contact the fellow who put up the string of videos after you've attempted the format, explaining your intentions so that lack of permission will not be an

irritation. It will be both a homage and an adaptation, after all.