Sunday, May 20, 2012

The World Through Sam's Eyes

Sam loves to take pictures and videos with my phone. Sometimes I won't even notice that my phone has been missing, and then later I'll pick it up and discover a slew of new pictures and videos that Sam took. Here are some of my favorites photos:










(Some of my art history notes)

Sam also likes to take videos. When he films, he often imagines that he is showing our house to a friend, so the audio will be peppered with him saying things like, "Yeah...hmm...I know...yep, sure is," in response to his imaginary friend's comments (about the house, I presume). He also likes to film the house while saying in a sing-song voice, "Everything you wanted to know...everything you wanted to know." I'm not quite sure how he came up with this little phrase or lilting way it is spoken, but I think it is cute. Here are some of my favorite videos:

Sam showing off his bedroom:

Sam often likes to make videos in the master bedroom, while sitting on J's side of our bed. You can hear him struggling in the middle of the video to climb up on the bed:

"Everything you wanted to know...in the whole wide world":

And just in case you think that there is always a little boy behind the camera, think again. Sometimes we have a dragon as a videographer. In this clip, Sam is trying to figure out how he can look at his dragon mask and film at the same time:

5 comments:

shelley said...

Can we just agree now that Sam will marry one of my three girls?!

Katherine Griffin said...

did you know that your kid is pretty cool? I especially liked the juxtaposition of the mirror video with no mask and then with mask. That was pretty great!

Annette said...

Oh my goodness, those were fun tours. I'll have to keep an eye on my camera and ipad when he is hanging out with us. I love the ongoing dialogue - and the dragon mask.
Another topic - your art blog. I loved reading your post about the Ravenna mosaics. We were there a few years ago and loved those. Thanks for the information on the changes made.

Becky Rose said...

As my new Mennonite friends say Sam is "terrible cute."

So good of you to save these. Absolutely adorable- him and the videos!

Rachael said...

I am amazed at how self aware Sam is. This was a good post and I hope Sam looks back on it often to see himself how he viewed the world at 3