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100. Shake Shack
5 months ago
99. the aftermath
5 months ago
96. Prom
5 months ago
94. Live Definition (my digital year)
6 months ago
92. CV4
7 months ago
91. A lift
7 months ago
89. myilife
7 months ago
87. Day One
8 months ago
86. The Shave
8 months ago
I guess I would consider this my first real deliberate vidblog. Usually I make pieces about an event or little vignettes of life in a chronological order. But this is random and scattered, and I think its more authentic to one's actual experience and memory of events.

All video taken with my little canon handheld digital camera between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

Its long, but so is a year.

(cast in order of appearance)
  • jzerby 6 months ago
    Ive only watched the first 30 seconds so far, and this is awesome
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  • Soxiam 6 months ago
    loved it. felt like i was watching "being blake whitman".
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    you found the door?
  • 3d60 6 months ago
    okay I'm in how do I get out........hello?
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    when you see yourself, you've found it.
  • 3d60 6 months ago
    Have I become badmalone yet?
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  • AA 6 months ago
    Good vidblog. I like the repetitive aspects -- it's a lot like you say about memory. Some things stick with you.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    they do.
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  • PEIKA 6 months ago
    Live Definition (the perfect clip) it's,, well so good that I might toss my cameras out the window.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    oh please don't do that Peika, you need it to make the awesome videos that you make!
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  • ojo 6 months ago
    great collection, even that I cannot follow what happened and who the people are - exept of some vimeo employees. This will make you and the shown people fun in a couple of month/years.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks ojo, its hard to follow it all myself.
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  • Aren Dow 6 months ago
    Amazing you can find random clips that perfectly sync together with each other, and for so long. Very well done.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    i went through about 1000 little clips, so it certainly took a while
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  • Trawin 6 months ago
    Blake - you did an amazing job on this!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks dude!
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  • Thommy Browne 6 months ago
    Where are we?
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    very good question.
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  • bervey 6 months ago
    g'nite schuyler
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    you have such a soft, succulent voice.
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  • ishan 6 months ago
    been a very good year for you indeed!
    may the next and the next go there
    as well...
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    i hope the same for you.
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  • Michael Bushmell 6 months ago
    Vimeo seems like a totally gnar job
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    its all a front ;)
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  • Randy Haddock 6 months ago
    very very cool video..... what I would do to work at CV!!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    there's a pretty tough initiation... its involves an octobong if you can handle it.
  • Randy Haddock 6 months ago
    yes I can!!! where do I sign up??? moving to NYC in two months!
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  • Alex McCollister 6 months ago
    Blake this is really great. I watched it twice. Like'd!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks Alex.
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  • Amanda C. 6 months ago
    Beautiful!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    nice trophy Amanda.
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  • Cameron Christopher 6 months ago
    This was really really nice. I loved the repeating "movies" line.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Are we making a movie?
  • Cameron Christopher 6 months ago
    We are making movies.

    The way you say it makes it sound like a statement about life. "We are making movies". Deep.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    well, we are.
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  • ZackwolK 6 months ago
    the Shea stadium footage is really neat, shows how similar to bacteria we really are.

    awesome year, great job!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    we are small.
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  • neil epstein 6 months ago
    Amazing! The Being John Malkovich comments are spot on.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thanks Neil!
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  • Buck Flashroy 6 months ago
    Amazing. Really really good. It had the same kind of feel as a dream. Random selections of memories that lead into one another in no particular order. I really liked this, please do more!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Life is but a dream.
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  • dalas verdugo 6 months ago
    True vidblog stylee. The vidblog is the most important invention of the 21st century.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    I would go with the beard, although that has been around for a while...
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  • Emily Qualey 6 months ago
    you spun us right round, baby, right round.

    here's to 2008. may it be great.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    !!
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  • kara mason 6 months ago
    tappers! i am awed and humbled to be included in your 2007 retrospective. happy new year!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    its Tapper!

    Happy Near Year!
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  • mitch phillips 6 months ago
    what a great idea for a video.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks Mitch, you should try one!
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  • abteen 6 months ago
    That was great.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thanks man.
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  • Sam Westrop 6 months ago
    good stuff

    some nice shots tooooo!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Graci
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  • Casey D 6 months ago
    fantastic

    i personally was a fan of the applauding montage
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks, everyone could use more clapping.
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  • Brett Dobbs 6 months ago
    Amazing.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    No, you are.
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  • i say 6 months ago
    I loved that! What was the music you you used or did you create it?

  • LANHO 6 months ago
    Would love to know the soundtrack to the first parto also...
    Great video!
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  • this is so beautiful
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks :)
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  • heather 6 months ago
    this is so good.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Hi Heather!!!
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  • Raina 6 months ago
    wonderful. :)
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    life should be.
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  • Kevin Pack 6 months ago
    That was great. I especially liked the audio that both went, yet didn't always belong, to the clips.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Audio plays a large part in this piece... lots of stuff that you can't even hear very well too.
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  • 3d60 6 months ago
    its mint blake......coolest
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    the honor, why thank you.
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  • Boris Lau 6 months ago
    This is totally rad blake! Keep it up!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thanks Boris!
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  • Erick C. 6 months ago
    great work blake! you do a super job on the sound collage. i think i like it better than the images. i'm gonna play it again with my eyes closed.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    I love playing with Audio... I wish I knew more about it.
  • Jon-Kyle 6 months ago
    same, the way you mixed everything together completely made it for me. really good stuff
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  • jeff chin 6 months ago
    Beautiful editing. It truly felt like your life was flashing before my eyes. Wish I had the time and energy to create something like this.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    you can, just put aside a few hours here and there.
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  • Texas Gentleman 6 months ago
    For some of the shots near water did you use a protective case? Oh yeah, tight video :)
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    nope, just careful execution.
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  • Pirata718 6 months ago
    @ 1:02 way to catch the pigeons. friggin awesome! :D

    blake, once again, you amaze me with your editing skillz.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thanks!
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  • islebehere 6 months ago
    so blake... fucking AWESOME!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thank you
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  • nshack 6 months ago
    Very nice collage! I could have watched more than a year at once... it was that captivating! Looking forward to seeing what 2008 spawns.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    me too.
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  • Katie Parks 6 months ago
    this was beautiful. i feel that i could type more but really, beautiful is all it needs.

    thanks for sharing.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thank you for commenting Katie.
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  • eric cwiertny 6 months ago
    OK, so I definitely not one for long videos with my short attention span, but this was one that kept me captivated from the moment it began right to the last second. Definitely a top 10 video for me. I especially liked the groupings-applause, fauxtos, etc...

    I would like to think that if I took all the past videos I've done (many never posted) I could somehow make something as cool as this... I'm not sure it'd ever come close as this was so incredibly well done.

    So good, Blake. Congratulations on documenting such a cool year in your life.

    Eric
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    You can, and you will. Watching so many videos here on Vimeo I am very inspired by all the incredibly talented people. I freely copy style and editing technique and ideas that appeal to me. So if you get some time, I would suggest you try one!
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  • JD 6 months ago
    Blake, an excellent montage. I love when there are things that you had no connection to whatsoever can still evoke a hardcore sense of nostalgia.

    I thoroughly enjoyed and best of luck in 08.

    Thanks for sharing man.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thats cool JD, i sometimes wish I could live in nostalgia, if it were a place.

    best of luck to you too, although I doubt you need it.
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  • Alex Itin 6 months ago
    great vlog

    particularly loved the timelapse of the stadium
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    we are ants.
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  • Chodite 6 months ago
    Thanks for the free trip ;)
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    welcome!
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  • aaroneous 6 months ago
    Blake, Gotta say that is your best yet. The audio was great, clips were the perfect length, love the stop motion sections, it was all very very good. Vimeo is such a more personal site than any other. I really feel like I get to know people here. It's borderline creepy.

    It was good to hang out with you for seven minutes and catch up on what you've done for the last year.
    Thanks for sharing!
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    It is kinda creepy, but in a good way.
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  • Russell Wynne 6 months ago
    Blake, your life is full of friends, creativity, music and nature. As I watched, I kept saying oh, that was cool (ie shot of stadium filling up) or boy that looks like fun (water, boats, friends hanging out). Thanks for sharing. Very nicely done.
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    thanks for watching!
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  • JamesW 6 months ago
    Truly inspiring... no mega effects, multi-thousand dollar cameras, crews, or big musical score. Really proves how personal video can transcend the lines of expectations and tell a story perfectly through the eyes (and mind) of an individual.

    Gah, what am I talking about.. I'm just jealous I couldn't think of doing something like this in the first place ;-) Good work!

    P.S. Lake George?
  • Blake Whitman 6 months ago
    Thanks James, I try to keep everything fairly simple most of the time... I guess thats just my style.

    And yeah, Lake George!
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