Back in 1990 I learned that the local public-access TV station would loan out video cameras for free. This was a revelation. I immediately signed up for the required two hour class and later that summer I had my first 24 hours with a video camera. I didn’t have a plan but I did have a time limit. I ran around filming whatever was happening. I recorded Rebecca making us dinner in our tiny apartment. I remember playing that back on TV and being so disappointed with how pedestrian it looked. I knew it wasn’t going to be a big screen movie but it just seemed so… not very special. I guess I could’ve embraced that but, that day I was obsessed with making this look different than what you get by default. What else could I do with the simple tools that I had?