5x5 #9 // "Janky"
Last week I decided I wanted to try out stop motion for the first time but was procrastinating learning how to do it methodically and efficiently. I got impatient and ended up learning by shooting the 5x5 itself, and it shows.
So stop motion takes super long, duh, but I was in no way prepared for that amount of effort. The shooting of this was solely done in the middle hours of the night, which is when I’m oddly finding the creative momentum needed to keep this thing up all month.
My recollection of its creation, even though it was only last night, is already. detached from the clearest part of my consciousness. I’m guessing through exhaustion and perhaps some dehydration. All in a good day’s work! EIther way, I would have never guess I would have found myself on my fire escape at four in the morning smashing pills with a hammer for twenty minutes.
I think it will come to show that that experience is having lasting effect on me. It was some specific combination of sensation and emotion that I don’t think I’ll ever touch again. The meaning of the song to me was a factor as well. Weird stuff.
In the end, it stopped being about a cool stop motion video for me. It instead became about simply powering through it to completion without any major hiccups. In that sense, I think I succeeded despite some fumbles. I’ll just leave it at that.
Also the stop motion work itself is garbage I’m not very good at it. Enjoy!