Our primary YouTube channel has consisted of our independent documentary film outputs - basically our directing work which is, for the most part, self financed and we shoot during our travels, with us rarely on screen, instead usually behind the camera, and sometimes heard as narrator. We also write and narrate essays which serve as incubation writings for our documentary projects, which were once included also in this channel but we came to find worked best broken out into a separate channel called "An Infinite Path" which is named after our podcast that's comprised of those audio narrated essays and release there prior to us potentially doing the long and laborious task of adding a visual component to some of those writings. We had about a year ago also experimented with rebooting this channel to also include our documentary/journalistic/cinematic style street photography, but also deemed that worked best as a separate channel called "Philosophical Photography" which corresponds to our photo blog. So we now have 3 separate channels - each updated periodically. Hooray!
In the meantime, this channel has basically remained a random collection of our past live-action film projects and things we've shot. But with us usually being the one behind the camera and thus out of sight and that is now going to change as we reboot it again, because we are now going to be making the majority of the video uploads here just like this one of us talking on screen, putting the You in YouTube, with us speaking into camera.
All of our essay writings and still and moving work have tried to have underlying themes of life insight, self development, and human beings' relationship to the natural world. This includes sub-categories such as mental health and physical health, ecology, philosophy, spirituality, pro democratic political philosophy, more authentic ways of living and being, etc... Not fluff, not gossip, not film criticism, not how to's, not gear/hardware reviews but instead areas of hopefully more philosophical deeper substance about life which our past/present future documentaries hope to focus on. Outside of travels, we also work a day job and thus spend quite a bit of time on the homefront working from our office shed which you are now seeing here. So many of these subjects that we are interested in, and have made documentary outputs surrounding, are able to be brought more efficiently to you by simply turning the camera on ourselves and having us directly talking about them. So the idea is to now use this channel with us doing so in short length videos consisting of life insights from past, present, future works that you may find valuable, filmed with the same hardware we would shoot one of our documentary projects on. Still peppering in future doco trailers, excerpts, and shorter form films here, but with those being done on a more sporadic basis while our speaking into camera here will now be the majority of the content of this channel and should allow for more value added here along with more regular content to both this channel and our related podcast as well.
We've learned a lot through our life work, study, praxis, and experiences and although we still have much to learn, creating and putting content out there, helps us learn by sharing with you.