Self-Portrait

This short is composed of approximately 200 still pictures shot with my digital camera. I layered in the music and sequenced the pictures in Sony Vegas Studio. The tune is "Search" by the Minutemen from their first record, The Punch Line. The Minutemen wrote great short songs because they didn't fully understand how to write a verse/chorus/bridge arrangement. They played what they considered the working class rock of Creedence Clearwater Revival, but infused their songs with funk rythyms because they couldn't make out CCR's bass and could only hear a strong bass line in funk songs. In the end they come up with something totally original. I think it's that innocence that made punk rock so great, just a bunch of kids who started playing music that they could call their own and, in many cases, it turned out to be revolutionary.