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We're looking at the forecast and all the little yellow suns except for our day which
was rain and thundershowers we realized we needed to come up with a new plan for what
we're going to do.
We had everybody outside apart from the person on piano, really banking on dry, dry weather.
So yeah, so that became a big discussion because there was a lot of limiting factors
in that building too, the way that we had made some artistic choices in terms of having
the speaker stacks and having this kind of like remote sort of isolated space and then
having people outside and then suddenly it's raining and like well it seems obvious that
we put them in that room but we wanted to maintain that artistic decision.
We were dealing with like line of sight issues, where are we going to put people but in the
end I think it worked out really well because well A, the weather turned out fine but we
ended up sort of going around the circumference basically of the sort of courtyard there
which was covered.
It was definitely a good collaborative conversation in terms of giving and taking and trying to
figure out and really identifying what is the most important and then I think coming
up with a great solution.
Yeah, I think I'd be over here just, there it is, it's kind of like.
That's one of those things where like boundaries and creative exercise really are helpful,
you just got to recognize that you're not, that they're there to help I guess and use
them that way.
I always reflect these things back to shooting stills I know but it's the same process we've
been through so many times with a set where you build a set, you're trying to shoot something
and you're trying to put across a message, you're in a mood and when you dress the set
you fill it up with stuff, generally that's the first instinct is to fill up the set and
fill up the frame and then what you immediately start doing before you shoot anything is pulling
things out and you just want to get to that smallest amount where you're getting enough
of the message through but just with a few key things.
I think that's true in so many different applications.
I don't know if you ever listen to a song, you listen to it, you listen to it, you listen
to it and then two minutes in one thing grabs you and you love that one thing two minutes
in and then it doesn't even happen again in the song or it doesn't happen for another
minute.
One thing is if it was happening the whole song it wouldn't be so sweet but it's like
the little scoop of ice cream on the side plate that you get with your pie.
If you just had ice cream, it wouldn't be so sweet, that cold wouldn't feel so cold
because you wouldn't have the hot pie.
Think of the song, think of the band's last album, they haven't just released Violin,
and particularly the song Friends Her, if there's one thing that's really noticeable
about that album and the songs on it, it's the spaces, it's the instruments that kind
of aren't in the song or the instruments that are played so sparingly like everything
feels so deliberate and that's really important.
A lot of music is about the story behind the story.
If you didn't count that with the notes that you hear then it would just be chaos really.
Especially with We Are The City they can take space between the notes as in like three
minutes between the notes so it's great, it makes the crowd awkward and that's always
a good time.
The band is really essentially, they're giving up a lot and they're putting a lot of trust
in everyone that's going to be here but the collaborator of effort can be so much more
than the sum of our parts that I think even if you lose you learn something in the process
and I don't think there's any way to lose when you have that kind of idea so I am just
thrilled that something like this even exists and that people are taking chances and are
working together and are trying something new because you don't always see people that
have that headspace.
Kevin and I have learned that but I think through Playground it's really become crystal
clear that it's all about chucking ideas out and not being too married to any of them.
It's an evolution, just keep moving forward, some things will, it seems like a great idea
but when in combination with other elements which are necessary you have to kind of let
things go and I think this one was such a perfect example of that because everyone on
board from Dustin to the band, Brandon, Sound, like everyone and Playground in general like
us as a team there was yeses and noses, pushback and give and take the whole way through and
I think everyone was really bought into that and that's why it all came together super
well and everyone I think felt like wicked we created this together.
Thank you.
You
My home videos won't mean a thing in 50 years
That day will come and all I've done will remember forgotten
Those VHS tapes, the broken arm and the baby
My first bike ride when my dad told me he wouldn't let go of the suit
The VHS video, here he is, a man of my dreams
Now those tapes, they mean everything to me, we don't even need it for a yard sale
It hurts when friends are hurting
And my friends are hurting
Look below the surface, do you see the spawning salmon
Unaware, oh well aware, they're living and dying
Feeling the money, magic, the forest like a couch
Can you forget those days of vast air and one poplar, five dollar bills
It hurts when friends are hurting
And my friends are hurting
It hurts when friends are hurting
And my friends are hurting
It hurts when friends are hurting
It hurts when friends are hurting
And my friends are hurting
Hey
Hey
Little words said, little words said, between you and me
Oh kid, I don't wanna talk
