week 4 -video
tdc5249 — Something unusual during your walk?
I was walking outside and spotted this little row of pots just sitting against a brick wall. What caught my eye was how random it looked — different sized pots, different plants, all kind of crammed together along the edge like someone just kept adding to the collection over time. One of them looks pretty dried out, another has tiny little seedlings just starting to poke through.
It is not unusual in a dramatic way, but there is something kind of odd about seeing this little makeshift garden tucked against a wall in what looks like a pretty plain concrete area. Someone clearly cared enough to put these here and keep adding to them. I liked that. Little unexpected pockets of green in places you would not expect them.
tdc5152 — Childhood terrors we don’t discuss enough
Okay, so I had two completely different kinds of fear growing up and neither of them made much sense at the time.
The first one — there was this uncle who lived in the neighbourhood. He never did anything wrong, never said anything weird. Completely normal guy. But for some reason, every single time I saw him, I would just run. Like full sprint in the other direction. No explanation, no reason. My family thought it was funny, but I was dead serious. Something about him just made me want to be anywhere else. I still cannot explain it.
The second one is a bit more understandable – The Conjuring. I watched it way too young and it genuinely broke something in me. It was not even the jump scares; it was the idea that something could just be in your house and you would not know. I could not sleep without checking every corner of my room for a while after that. And that clapping scene? I still do not like it when it gets too quiet at night.
tdc4940 — Make the Dullest Video Ever
I filmed myself staring at my house plant. That is it. That is the whole video.
No music. No voiceover. No movement. Just me and the monstera having a staring contest that I was definitely not going to win. The plant did not blink. The plant did not move. The plant did absolutely nothing, which is exactly the point.
I think this might be the most honest video I have ever made. There is something weirdly peaceful about it though — just sitting there watching something grow so slowly that you cannot actually see it happening. Nothing unusual occurred. Nothing interesting was captured. A plant just existed, and I watched it do that.