man's greatest invention

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...the camera.
Capable of preserving a moment to treasure forever.
I'm a lucky man. I had a heads up that my Dad was about to venture to the next life so I sat him down for 20 questions and a lifetime of stories:
http://vimeo.com/9456566
golden.
This is why I love video so much. I've dinged the ole melon way too many times in my time and have no short term memory at all anymore. Prolly why I'm shootin' all the time.
It's amazing. I grew up with a tough ole dude who I was convinced never told me he was proud of me. I can hear it now that he's gone.
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Roll much. Life large. Laugh loud.

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It's good that you had the opportunity to spend that kind of time with your Pops, and will be able to revisit it whenever you need some reassurance that we humans don't spontaneously pop out of the ground and start punching timeclocks. His history is yours, and your legacy is his...

I know it's kind of cheesy, but this is what Superman's father said to him in his last message to his son:

"We will never leave you-even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father. And the father, the son."

I always liked that little speech.
 
That's a really nice video and it really shows the love he has for his family and his life.

Watching it, I wish I had shot a video like that. My father travelled the world and had great stories I never heard until after his death in 1997. While he was sick with cancer, I never thought to put a mic on him and start asking questions. The true irony? I was attending the NPPA workshop when he died.
 
Much appriciated.
I'm thankful for having the opportunity to make that. He knew what I was doing and why. It was a pretty heavy room as we spoke. I wish I had asked him those questions years earlier now.
That has a way of making some of us feel a bit mortal. Life is more delicate than we treat it sometimes. I specialized in cheating death much of my life. Now, with a missing body part or two, an added ailment or two and a few inherited year reducers, I'm walkin' a little slower and singin' a little louder.
Just signed up as a little league coach on two teams this spring. I have biiig shoes to fill in followin' ole Dad's footsteps.
 
My brother and I sat down our grandparents over the Christmas holiday and spent two hours interviewing them. He served in the Army Air Corps, flying C-47s over Indo-China.... incredible stuff, and we got it in HD.
 
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