After a long break over the holidays, one of us turns up having bought 18 cameras for $150 at a farm out in rural Nebraska, found on Facebook Marketplace. The other sits down and says he's nervous. The podcast has passed 50 subscribers and drawn comments from strangers, so now there's something to live up to. We lean on an idea Rick Rubin gave in a podcast interview: treat personal work like a diary entry, because a diary is the one place there's no point lying.
The nervous one has a habit of dropping projects about a quarter of the way in, once they start to feel expected of him. After one video essay on Saul Leiter and another on William Eggleston, he lost interest in the form. What pulls at him now is documentary, the kind Werner Herzog made in Encounters at the End of the World and Louis Malle made in an American farm town. The other manages expectations all the time, with a long, honest post to his YouTube audience and with his kids before a trip to the store. The nervous one fights them instead, and even a text message that breaks his focus can feel like an intrusion. It ends on the controlling streak we share, and the old line about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
Mentioned in this episode: Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton, Saul Leiter, William Eggleston, Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, Louis Malle, Jimmy Stewart.
-Ai
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