Current favourites from 2012-2013.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013
this time last year
early 2012
Old videos that I edited from a time when I used a point-and-shoot camera to capture the moments that were so easily forgotten. Shot at a time when I felt young and inebriated with life and possibility. A time when I was only in love with love and it had not yet touched me. A time when I allowed myself to wander. It's good to remember, and it's good to move on.
It's like all my paths have led to one exit.
Old videos that I edited from a time when I used a point-and-shoot camera to capture the moments that were so easily forgotten. Shot at a time when I felt young and inebriated with life and possibility. A time when I was only in love with love and it had not yet touched me. A time when I allowed myself to wander. It's good to remember, and it's good to move on.
It's like all my paths have led to one exit.
--
"I shot and edited this video to Jónsi's masterpiece, "Animal Arithmetic" to celebrate the last couple weeks of my life. I have bled, cried, laughed, forgotten, remembered, lost and gained in a dizzying pace and now it's time to celebrate.
Thank you so much to my loved ones for your support, understanding and back-breaking hugs. This one's for you."
Thank you so much to my loved ones for your support, understanding and back-breaking hugs. This one's for you."
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
6
the paths of people
converging and diverging,
leaving and coming,
never constant.
the people i have loved
leave their marks on my life,
like sore wounds that
ache when i move.
people leave and come back,
searching and wandering
for meaning,
for light in another's eyes.
i have gone too far,
waded out into water
when i need the solidity
of land under my feet.
drowning for another,
head bobbing underwater,
struggling to breathe
and see my destiny.
sacrifice is a great favor,
like nothing else that
speaks louder
or acts faster.
sacrifice yourself and
you will lose yourself.
no more crutches.
converging and diverging,
leaving and coming,
never constant.
the people i have loved
leave their marks on my life,
like sore wounds that
ache when i move.
people leave and come back,
searching and wandering
for meaning,
for light in another's eyes.
i have gone too far,
waded out into water
when i need the solidity
of land under my feet.
drowning for another,
head bobbing underwater,
struggling to breathe
and see my destiny.
sacrifice is a great favor,
like nothing else that
speaks louder
or acts faster.
sacrifice yourself and
you will lose yourself.
no more crutches.
disposable i
happiness is a desire that is only tangible
when it is obtained and even then, it is fleeting.
I finally developed one of my disposable cameras which I've been carrying around obsessively, trying to remember to use it (I forgot during my housewarming because I was too busy enjoying myself). Developing it cost so much that it almost put me off shooting film, and then I looked at the pictures and remembered the memories that came with the images----there is nothing that can replace a memory that was forgotten and then suddenly comes sweeping back.
This film roll spans 3 months of my life, rotating from quiet moments at home to the raucous sunny days spent with great loves and great friends. I have been using 3 different disposables, hoping to forget what I've taken on them so the images will serve as a bittersweet surprise at the end of summer. I've started a disposable project that will be revealed at the end of this summer, after my birthday on August 11th. More film photography to come.
23
Turn on HD for best viewing
23 by Czarinna Bravo Tabobo
Footage from the last year of my life including Miami, L.A., Seattle,
North/East/West/South Vancouver and Galiano Island. Edited before I turn
24 to commemorate fleeting youth and settling down.
Monday, June 10, 2013
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