The main focus of this YouTube project is to give new life to poetry but there is another aspect that goes a bit undetected behind the curtain of good music and fancy editing tricks. The vast majority of these videos are filmed in the city and country that I live in and I've been given the opportunity to record everyday life, even the ugly aspect of it. I'm showcasing in this video homelessness and other examples of social disintegration. This isn't a political statement, or an opportunity to state pretentiously that "I care", this is just documentation and all the feelings this imagery may cause you, belong to you and I welcome you to share them in the comment section.

Forever Humbled
a kid with a camera

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References

The narrator is Tom O'Bedlam

The (amazing) music is this:
'Undertow' by Scott Buckley released under CCBY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

My equipment:
I film handheld with a Panasonic Lumix
G80
https://amzn.to/2uGqmQZ
GX80
https://amzn.to/33e5Tye
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm F1.8 Lens
https://amzn.to/2vr9P3N

A few Charles Bukowski books
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
https://amzn.to/2TjV2Qc

Essential Bukowski: Poetry
https://amzn.to/2IaxnMU

Women: A Novel
https://amzn.to/2Ts5hlz

The Last Night of the Earth Poems
https://amzn.to/2TqKZsP

Ham On Rye: A Novel
https://amzn.to/2uLMnhu

post office: A Novel
https://amzn.to/2VzvKAC

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
https://amzn.to/2Vx9cAl

So Now? by Charles Bukowski
the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die.
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix
but the tree outside doesn't know:
I watch it moving with the wind
in the late afternoon sun.
there's nothing to declare here,
just a waiting.
each faces it alone.
Oh, I was once young,
Oh, I was once unbelievably
young!