The Pier

Hola,

I ran down to the pier today for a quick shoot... 

And by quick I mean I was so freezing that my hands could only take about ten minutes of the wind on the lake.  But I think that ten minutes was really worth the vid.

My vision for this was to have a reminiscent vibe.

To all the Lakesider youth out there, I know you can relate to this.
We have all been back here for a weekend, a holiday or even the entire winter, and the memories of summer come flooding back.  

The infamous pier.

Where I literally spent my entire childhood.
Going back and forth from the baby pool to the beach all day/every day, the metal ramp that's impossible not to run on because it burns, the weird warm section that dead fish always get stuck in but you play in it anyways because it feels like you're in a cave, 

& the obscene amount of seaweed that is, for some reason, irresistible to people... Haha.

Pier dives.

This ritual actually didn't happen to me until summer of '06.  The summer we all got our anchor tattoos.  One minute, you're hanging out with your friends, the next you're running barefoot through Lakeside in the middle of the night, pretending like the rocks don't hurt your feet.

Before you know it, you're holding hands with whoever you're with and jumping into blackness.
As you wait for the water to hit you,
you realize:
This is the best night of summer.
Then you have to spend like ten minutes taking turns trying to get up the ladder without laughing.  One thing makes you laugh and you're back where you started.  Slipping around on the first bar they put up way too high.  That thing is impossible.

Every time I come back in the winter, the pier is a wildly peaceful tundra,
silent and lonely as a ghost.

But... 

It's beautiful.  

So here is the video... I don't have much of a deep explanation for it... Other than it felt great to edit something that didn't have any boundaries.  I had so much fun doing this.

I am very pleased that there was a song that fit the feel of the footage and could actually double for the title. Haha.

Anyways,

I hope you like it!

"God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up." -Mansur al-Hallaj 

(Thank you Megan Melville for sharing this quote with me.)