Everything is BS
Nostalgia, Personality Types, and the Emotional Journey of Photography Pt. 2
Ever find yourself flipping through an old photo album, a nostalgic smile creeping onto your face as you're flooded with warm, fuzzy memories? What if we told you that the printed photograph in your hand is the most potent memory preserver, more so than any digital snap? That's what we're delving into in this episode, exploring the tangible value of printed photographs and how they hold the weight of stories that iPhones just can't capture.
Stirring up childhood memories, we revisit some of our favorite movies and discuss how they've shaped our storytelling. We've all watched Brave Little Toaster, right? We still resonate with its characters and themes, and it's got us thinking about the power of nostalgia in home transformations. And as we walk down memory lane, we also touch on the poignant idea of projecting a loved one's hologram at the dinner table - a futuristic concept with a nostalgic twist.
Finally, we get a little personal, sharing funny anecdotes about our grandparents and their quirky nicknames. We invite you to a virtual tour of the Smoky Mountains and Litchfield Hills, the special places that bring back a rush of precious memories. And for all you romantics out there, we've got a unique wedding tip involving a special perfume and the powerful sense of smell. Come join us, as we honor the past while navigating the present.
Ever find yourself flipping through an old photo album, a nostalgic smile creeping onto your face as you're flooded with warm, fuzzy memories? What if we told you that the printed photograph in your hand is the most potent memory preserver, more so than any digital snap? That's what we're delving into in this episode, exploring the tangible value of printed photographs and how they hold the weight of stories that iPhones just can't capture.
Stirring up childhood memories, we revisit some of our favorite movies and discuss how they've shaped our storytelling. We've all watched Brave Little Toaster, right? We still resonate with its characters and themes, and it's got us thinking about the power of nostalgia in home transformations. And as we walk down memory lane, we also touch on the poignant idea of projecting a loved one's hologram at the dinner table - a futuristic concept with a nostalgic twist.
Finally, we get a little personal, sharing funny anecdotes about our grandparents and their quirky nicknames. We invite you to a virtual tour of the Smoky Mountains and Litchfield Hills, the special places that bring back a rush of precious memories. And for all you romantics out there, we've got a unique wedding tip involving a special perfume and the powerful sense of smell. Come join us, as we honor the past while navigating the present.
Hey guys, you're listening to part two of today's episode. If you haven't listened to part one of this episode, we'd strongly recommend you listen from the beginning of part one to understand where our conversation starts up. When you're done with this episode, please feel free to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcast. It's the easiest way to support this podcast. Enjoy part two and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2:Was your grandma's name, elaine.
Speaker 1:It is Elaine yeah.
Speaker 2:That's was my grandma's name was Elaine.
Speaker 1:Stop it.
Speaker 2:That's so funny.
Speaker 1:That is so funny.
Speaker 2:What's your?
Speaker 1:grandpa's name.
Speaker 2:Lou.
Speaker 1:Okay, lou. Yeah, I had a winky and a Pete.
Speaker 2:A Pete. That's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a so. And then my mom. So my mom's mom passed away. When she was young, she passed away when she was 12. So I met my biological grandma, my mom's side. Her name was Rose and yeah, so Elaine was in the picture when I was a kid, so I was growing up, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But and I always funny because I can never pronounce it correctly and I didn't learn until many years a few years before my grandpa passed his dad's name, who came over on the boat was, you know, straight from Italy was a. I can't even pronounce it correctly, I loop Leo.
Speaker 1:A loop Leo.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's fun to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had. Oh, my grandparents are Elaine, who was married to Winky, and his name was William, but they called him Winky. I guess there was a, I'm not sure. But what I was told was that he would work on the farm and he was milking a cow and the cow's milk got in his eye and he kept winking, so they called him Winky. But he also has like siblings that are like Uncle Porky, uncle Tiny, you know stuff like that. So I'm not really sure. And then there was one that was just Fred. So I don't really know, but I had. I have grandma Elaine. She's still with us. I have my grandpa Winky, who was passed, my grandpa Pete, who was my grandma Elaine's second husband, but he was my grandpa nonetheless, he, I grew up with him, you know. And then on my dad's side I have Joyce, who is my nanny, and then my papa, who passed away last year, is John All very regal names. And then I have a Winky.
Speaker 2:I love that, I know.
Speaker 1:And then there is.
Speaker 2:It's always interesting to the what, on both sides of the family, you call the grandparents. There's all different names Grandpa, who gets to be grandpa, who gets to be papa or grandpa. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1:So your grandma, elaine do you have a specific memory that is tied to her? That when you see something, smell something, think about something. And it's funny that you say that thing with the smells too. And I just want to put this little tidbit for brides who are listening grooms too, but pick a perfume special to your wedding and then wear it on your anniversary. Because, apparently it always brings back that. It's the smell, the nostalgia it brings it back.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea. That should be on form of mind somewhere. That's a good one. That's a good one, right? Yeah, interesting. I'm sorry, what was the question I forgot?
Speaker 1:Do you have a special? Is there something that kind of ties grandma Elaine to your memory? Is there something or a place that you walk in and you feel like her presence, or do you not have access to those homes anymore? Or do you have just something where maybe a special food that she made?
Speaker 2:Not a special food, it's more of a, I think, just honestly the mountains. So they lived in the Smoky Mountains and it's both of them yeah, yeah, so I mean it literally lived not on the top of the mountain, but where they were. Maggie Valley, north Carolina, is like you're looking up at it, it was.
Speaker 1:I mean it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:It's gorgeous and they had a creek in the backyard and if I ever am in a location that has that vibe, that's when I think of them. Because, that's the only because we don't have that up here other than like, like Farmington maybe maybe in Connecticut Well, the Litchfield Hills, but we never go up there. Do you ever go to Litchfield?
Speaker 1:Kind of I mean just for like clients and stuff. But I don't ever like explore Litchfield. I lived in Litchfield County. At one point I was in.
Speaker 2:New.
Speaker 1:Milford and I would go antiquing there a lot. My dad and I would meet to go fishing sometimes at Kent Falls. Yep, no Kent Falls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's. There's so many people in the state that haven't made it up there and I've only driven through there once or twice and it's called times.
Speaker 2:I remember thinking oh, my God, I was like I didn't know this was here and it's because it takes a while to get there, because there's only back roads to get up there, so there's really no reason for me to go up there, but when I have, I was wowed at how beautiful it is up there and understand why they get they always get more snow than most of us.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, lucky them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's for me. Yeah, I mean, you're a big snow lover. We'll talk about this, we'll, we'll, we'll get back into October, november, we'll start talking about that again.
Speaker 1:So that session that I had not too long ago with the canoe and everything they live in. They have a cabin in Salisbury and I had never been to Salisbury before and I had never been on top of Mount Riga, but, man, it feels like you're straight up in upstate Vermont.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, yep, I'm like oh, we're still in Connecticut.
Speaker 2:For real, it's not that far. Yeah, it's kind of relatively speaking, it's not that far away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Nuts. So, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, no no, no, this is a classic tangent.
Speaker 1:No worries, I just I, I felt like it was so important, like when I was taking photos of all of the things in my grandmother's cabin, I felt like it was so important to not move anything. I felt like it was so important to, you know, besides the seltzers, the water bottles, like things like that, where it's obviously trash and that you know, but all of the things that were kind of out of place, that were mismatched, the things that made her house quirky. I was just kind of taking all of these little quick snaps when I saw something and I was like that's so, grandma, you know. So I, I just it's so funny because we've talked about realism, we've talked about, you know, capturing the day, the humans, the whatever, as it is.
Speaker 1:And there's so much pressure to, I think, when clients hire people for photos. There's so much pressure to make your space feel as completed, as picture, perfect, as magazine worthy as possible and, in reality, like what I want to see is your lived in. Look, I want to see the look of your home on a Saturday morning when the kids just wake up and they're, you know, running around or watching. Do they even do Saturday cartoons anymore?
Speaker 2:I don't even know. I don't even know.
Speaker 1:But I want to see your space as you live in it. I want you to look at photos and be like, no, that really captures exactly what our home looks like on a day to day, and not just when it's at its best. I think that's so important for people to remember that when you're hiring photographers, you're not only hiring them to capture you at your best or not even at your best at your realest is what we hope but also your space is so important, where you're raising your family, where you fell in love, where you have all of these DIY projects Like that is what is important to me.
Speaker 2:So, on that note, this is a good point. So I'm thinking about this and I'm like I'm just envisioning, looking at older photos that are I'm going to use the word almost mundane, that are mundane. Those are the ones, if I go back into a literal photo album, that my parents have.
Speaker 1:The old film photos the old film photos taped to a page, and it's so.
Speaker 2:I don't know if everybody feels this way, but I was always so interested in looking at the old photos of just like what the room looked like, because it was like it's so, because you, I've been in rooms that were similar to that, but they're aged, because, but for some reason, when you look back at that old photo, that was the new, that was the new at the time, and it even looks like newer ish, and it's so, so it's just very interesting to look at. So but here's my here's where I'm going with this we're talking about take those photos.
Speaker 2:We're telling anybody that's listening that you know. Maybe you should think about doing something like this, like if the last location or your favorite location have a little session, whether it's with you, or you hire a photographer because years down the road you're going to like it. Here's the thing We've gone through some major shifts and how people record, whether that's photo or video, because back then it was careful with each shot because you all had film. Now we all have thousands of photos on our iPhones that you probably never look at.
Speaker 2:Which side note for the weddings, you're not going to watch the video of every piece of the ceremony and reception when you take your phone out, you're not going to watch it. Don't do it. It's an immediate family, that's fine, sure, but you're not going to watch it. So that's my piece on that. But what is the advice? How do we go about this going forward? Because I think, honestly, I think the only way to do this properly is you need to print them. I think you got to print them. They're going to get lost in the digital world.
Speaker 2:I think to make it special it needs to be printed and it needs to be put in a book that you can open up and your kids or nieces and nephews but essentially a future generation will look at that, because if it's on the digital, I just don't see a world yet where it doesn't get lost. And this is just because when I look at a digital album nowadays, I don't even want to look at it that long, because it's just so overwhelming. There's so many photos.
Speaker 1:Obviously, it's such a different feel to go swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. As opposed to turning a page and actually looking at the photos on that page.
Speaker 2:You're not going to be served an ad when you're looking through the pages.
Speaker 1:You're not going to be distracted with a notification that pops down in front of you.
Speaker 2:Maybe in the future, I don't know, maybe it will. Someday a holographic ad will pop up, but for right, now no, Sorry, go ahead. Oh no no, that's me yelling. Oh no no.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I feel like I cut you off relatively often on this. So did I ever show you? I don't think I showed you, but I went on a trip with my mom to, and my sister to, new Orleans in 2018. And I had all of these photos and I was like these photos are super fucking cool and I don't want them to just live like live somewhere that I'm never going to look at them. So I actually made table of top books and it's kind of funny, but it's also kind of creepy, because my favorite thing that we did when we went there and this is going to tell the listeners like a lot about who I am as a human One of my favorite things that we did when we went there was to visit the St Louis cemetery. You bet your ass, your girl was taking photos of everything. And then I got home and I was like what do I do with cemetery? I made a book. When I show it to you, hold on.
Speaker 2:So, for anybody that's just listening to the podcast, we are recording this with a video, so this will these clips are getting thrown up on social media right now, but they are going to live up on YouTube, so we need to start taking these on YouTube, so I'm excited to see this. I just basically told everyone that if you are just listening to this and you want to see it, we're going to have the clips, because we are recording this, okay.
Speaker 1:So this it's like a little table top book. It's a St Louis cemetery in Nola, nola.
Speaker 2:How fun is that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like an artist, like an art book.
Speaker 2:And you made that.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Thank you. And then the other one is just like this and very hairy, but also a table top book that people can just if they're coming over, they can just, and it's a little bit of my work too, but it's so fun.
Speaker 2:Preface to, as you say, very hairy. She's got the dog in the background.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but there are no photos of us in that book. There are no photos of the humans that I went with. This is literally just a book of my trip and I just I was like these photos deserve to live somewhere because even today in 2023, there's a really good chance that if I went down there, that those same areas would not look the same as when I went, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of cool to have, like your spaces captured in time, no matter what, even if it's a cemetery.
Speaker 2:You're literally making me? Yeah, no, you're. So we have talked about this, Kelly and I have talked about this multiple times that we're going to take some of our favorite photos that live in our digital Facebook, old Facebook albums or on our phone. And I need to put them somewhere because you just don't look at them and how. And there's just something about holding that book. Like I want to like literally go to your house and look at that book now.
Speaker 1:I want to like feel the page, because Well, we still have to have our dinner date with Kelly and Chad, you do.
Speaker 2:Kelly and Chad. Yeah, we've been like literally two years into this. We can finally get together and meet up. Well, it's so funny.
Speaker 1:We were like meeting up forever and then we figured out that we could do this over the internet and now we're like, oh see you never. Bye, I'm never going to see you in person again.
Speaker 2:The album is just or a book or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2:Some printed organized limited number of photos in there is so crucial and cool and I hope anyone listening actually is motivated to do something like that now, because you can. You, if you don't know where to print your books, you can reach out to either I can't say this carefully as we have more work but or, if you want recommendations, there's multiple ways to do this. You, you know you can do it online yourself. You can do it on all the platforms that you probably already know. I'm not going to say the names, but they're, they're all there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's worth it.
Speaker 1:And how beautiful is it to have the opportunity somewhere down the line, if you have cousins visiting you, something like that, and let's say that you have said goodbye to a lot of your favorite people. How cool would it be to pull out a book that is literally just called like Grandma's Cabin? Yeah, and you just go through and it's all of the little, the little quirks that made that cabin so special to you, and you could look at it and go. What was she thinking when she did that? You know and?
Speaker 2:now I envision, like I'm spiraling here. Now I envision a you've got book. That's such a specific thing like grandma's cabin, but let's say now you've got a like a whole collection holder of the books, and it's literally called like Brooks, life like, and it's just, but it's, it's pieces of, it's not dates, it's things, it's it's Events or locations. Yeah, so instead of just the stereotypical chronological order, it's like Grandma's house.
Speaker 1:It's all the things that you felt was important enough to have on paper I love and so it's not just you know what.
Speaker 1:Someday, when all of us pass away, when you and I are in the ground, it's gonna be like Like all of our life's. Our Facebook is probably gonna be like something that you're gonna be able to export and it's gonna be like a complete story from start to finish. You know, really weird but the things that your people will be able to take, like I don't know, someday when I'm gone, maybe Evie or Logan will inherit one of these books and be like how cool is Auntie rookie taking photos of a cemetery, like that's so who she was, you know exactly key point.
Speaker 2:That's. That's who she was. It invokes emotion and invokes personality. It doesn't. What it does not invoke is what is that? What is the freaking word I'm looking for? It was the same word I'm looking for before. I can't pull it out of my brain.
Speaker 1:It's not when you said tangible.
Speaker 2:It's like superficial it's, it's something along those lines, and I can't. This will be a episode 20.
Speaker 1:Episodes down, like that was the word.
Speaker 2:It has no emotion, it has no personality, it's just simply a superficial. This, visually, is appealing, but what is that? But that lasts, that, like temporary oh, that's nice lasts for 0.5 seconds before you move on to the next thing, because anybody can do that.
Speaker 1:Right but how cool they can't yeah, and how cool would it be if you, if you had a child and you were trying to explain the feel of your grandparents cabin in the smoky mountains and you were able to take out a book that captured every crevice, every corner, to the point where, when you're looking at the photos, you can almost smell what that cabin smelled like.
Speaker 1:You can feel what the air felt like and Hopefully your son or your daughter has an idea of okay, this is, this is where my, my dad was able to go as a kid. You know, and hopefully I mean I just I Know that I'm an interior design weirdo, like I know that I love this kind of stuff, so I don't know if other people necessarily have the same pull towards spaces in the way that I do, but there's something so freaking special about photographing your space Like not in like a realtor, you know, zillow, add way, it's about your space, your stuff, the photos that are hanging on the walls, the boots that are by the door, the, the pots in the pans that are kept in the stove for storage, things like that. That's what's gonna make Like all the difference when you think about your childhood places and the nostalgia that you have, which is enough to make me throw up. I don't know, it does. I don't know if other people feel that strongly about Like leaving a space and not ever.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they don't, it's not. I don't know if they know.
Speaker 1:This is not even think about it, no.
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I think you have to present it to them.
Speaker 2:I think you have to show them why it's worthy, and it's hard to be really Sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Go ahead.
Speaker 2:No, no, I was just gonna say it's hard to show somebody. It's worthy when you're showing your own, because there's no emotion, they don't have the memories.
Speaker 1:So you right it's.
Speaker 2:It's like ooh, this is another good metaphor. Have you ever had somebody tell you like they watch some old Movie? We killing I actually joke about this, and it's always a question. We ask ourselves some old movie that you saw, maybe when you were a kid or teenager, and With the world of streaming, you can pull up a lot of these old things and you're you're like oh my god, like this was such a good movie, I love this movie. And they start watching it within five minutes. It's like this is, this is trash.
Speaker 1:This is a weird ass. The. Horrifying and I think that's the reason why I am the way that I am. To be honest, this is brave little toaster was my favorite movie ever and it's. It's horrifying if you really think about like what it's about.
Speaker 2:Oh, and it was. There's the scene, and when they're in the shop, that's the one that always freaked me out. It was just like as a kid.
Speaker 1:Shop or the air conditioner dying in the window.
Speaker 2:Or the car the car that gets picked up by the thing and then, like crushed, by the machine that also has a face. Or Kirby sacrificing himself the rest of the group and they did it so well because he was like that he's the grumpy one, he's the grandpa he reminded me of my grandpa Pete. He was a little gruff, you know but he was a nice. But he was a nice.
Speaker 1:He always reminded me of my grandpa Pete.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so. Yeah, so I. I think to show people this, you'd have to have like some proof of concepts, but it's hard to have a proof of concept on a singular story. I don't know how you do it, other than Showcasing what other people's emotions were when they had something like this done right.
Speaker 1:So like a like a tabletop book to show.
Speaker 2:I so let me take this back. I think you because you're like. I don't know if there's people that would feel the same as me about this I'm convinced that in the world of However many people are on this earth now seven billion that there's no matter what you enjoy to do or what strikes you is Interesting. Fun evokes emotion. There's a group of people that are in that same category because we all have doppelgangers, and we all, so we just have to find them.
Speaker 1:There's a pretty good chance. If you're feeling something, somebody else is feeling that too. Yep, it's just how many people what I was gonna say before, when I almost rudely cut you off, like I always.
Speaker 2:Broke, we're sitting here and just talking, it's.
Speaker 1:Back to these. I'm literally like why did I do that?
Speaker 2:I don't even think about it. And I do the same thing because, remember, we talked about short-term memory. If I have a thought or something and I like I know that Someone's talking, I have to listen to their story and I'm trying to get like my addition to this to get it out. If I don't say it, it sounds it, I'm gonna lose it, and if I ever cut you off, that's why that's literally and then because then it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cuz you need to. You know like I have to put this in before it's.
Speaker 2:Which people that do that, like I'm doing right now here at this very second. People confuse Individuals not everybody, but people who do that, who cut you off in stories. A lot of people just think it's rude, but it's really that. It's really that there's a they're trying to like like they're gonna forget it.
Speaker 1:Either that or they're trying to Like I know I do this thing where I'm like I'm doing right now it's like I make it about me. But I don't mean to make it about me. I'm doing it in a way that I can relate to you, like I'm trying to show you, like I relate to what you're saying to me. But what I was gonna say was I Would be interested in pulling Kelly in on this conversation, because Kelly has kind of the best of all worlds and I'm so curious. So what I mean when I say that?
Speaker 1:I know that Chris knows what I mean, but for the listeners, chris and Kelly live in one of their, their family homes Kelly's family home and it was in the family. It held all of these memories for her and now they're getting to do what they want to do with it, which is beautiful and amazing. But I wonder if she kind of had a little bit of that and maybe, you know, if she had a little bit of that like, like I don't really know if I Want to do this much work to my so-and-so's house you know what I'm saying like just because it won't feel like them anymore. Or if she was like let's hit the ground run in. Let's Let her on it.
Speaker 2:It is a little bit different. They're all. They're always gonna be a little bit different. I'm gonna let. I almost want to say let's save that and let her speak on that. All I can tell you is that, yes, there were absolutely moments of kind of emotional connects for a second where there was a stopping point, where she kind of Took in what we were actually doing and we just talk about it.
Speaker 1:That's well, it's kind of nice too, because she was able to keep certain portions of that house in the way that she remembered them as a kid and add Portions where it feels like, okay, but this is like our space, this is our home, but she still has that. She walks in the front door and she feels the way that she did when she was a kid, which is kind of a nice balance a a.
Speaker 2:It's funny you're saying this the last night. It was brought up actually, so we, we added an addition, so you can feel in the house I didn't want to give too much information, because I didn't.
Speaker 1:I don't know who listens to this, so like I don't want to give up too much of like, kelly's like and it was this person's house to Kelly. So if somebody's listening and they know they're like, oh, now I know where Kelly and Chris live.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know they, it's, I mean our millions of viewers right now.
Speaker 1:So Listen, it's going up.
Speaker 2:It's going up.
Speaker 1:It's going up. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2:I'm not surprised. We just got a. We're talking it out. This, is it? So Last night, last night, conversation came up where in so in the house there was an addition built. That's what's the project for the past two plus years and you can feel in the new kitchen where there's when the floors had to line up was one of the more challenging parts, because there was Linolium and then there was subfloor and when building the new spot you have to make them meet, for those connections were in the old house to the new house and it wasn't in one spot. It's not perfect, it's like ever so slightly different, even with how much work that they did, and you can feel it a little bit if you step in this spot and it was brought up last night, as you know what. It's fine because it's like a. It's just like a throwback to this is where the old house was and it's this is where our kitchen ended, so it's kind of like it's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it doesn't. It doesn't have to be perfect, it's not, as long as it's not a tripping hazard and we're not going to be perfect and it's not. It's. It's like ever so slight and we know where it is, we can feel it and it's just kind of. She made the point that was like that's just an ode to where the house was, like you invite a guest over that you don't like and you're like don't tell them where the switch is.
Speaker 2:Don't tell them. Don't tell them. It's going to be hilarious. Yeah, let them fall, that's horrible, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I don't really I don't know where to end this.
Speaker 2:I don't really know, I'm just I think a good thought process is you know, think about. Two takeaways here are if you haven't, if your life is moving so fast that you haven't taken the time to think about recording some memories, and especially but what's weird about that sentence is we live in a world where we're recording everything, but maybe not the mundane things that you think are mundane that actually might be important later on, right? So something, as Brooke does, which is photographed her grandma's house recently and said that this wouldn't technically be the visually appealing picture perfect photo. No, it's not what somebody.
Speaker 1:It's not what a realtor would post to sell it. It's not it's, but it is the way that I would remember that house and I want to encourage people who feel like their homes don't necessarily look like the picture perfect pottery barn catalog. I just I think there's something to be said about the way in which you not only your house but the way in which you live in your house and the way in which your kids someday will remember that home and kind of, I guess, just to thank your lucky stars if you get, if you get to say goodbye to a home before you say goodbye to the people who lived in it, and you all collectively get to kind of understand that those memories are going to live there now and this is a new chapter for all of you. I think that that's we can all only be so lucky. I think that that is such a beautiful thing to be able to say goodbye. And maybe before you say goodbye to your favorite place, you should just photograph it as it is and not worry about the things that might not be picture perfect or the things that make it quirky, the little corners that you might not be so proud of. Someday you might look at that corner and be like, oh I really. You know, I remember when we used to have a Christmas tree in that corner. You know, my very first. You'll be proud of me. My very first threads post was something that I thought of when I was up there, and it was your favorite.
Speaker 1:Places can become ghosts too, because there are so many. There are so many places that I wish that I could visit, just like there are so many people that I wish I could still hug, and it's almost equally as painful to not be able to do either of those things. So a lot of the places where all of your love lives, they deserve to be captured too, because that was your dwelling. And how creepy is it too, just like on a totally separate note. How creepy is it to think Like okay for your house, right, it was Kelly's, someone's house. Think about how long that house has been standing and how many people have walked through your house and how they say that when you pass, the energy doesn't leave, the energy needs to go somewhere. And a lot of what they say is that souls like ghosts basically are souls that are just their energy, that don't have anywhere to go.
Speaker 1:So, think about how many people and I'm not saying your house specifically, but think about if you're living in a home that might be from the 1900s how many people dwelled that home and how did they see their home. I would give anything to Like I lived in an old Victorian, actually, you know what. No, my last house was built in 1920. I would have given anything to see what that house looked like in all of its different stages, even though I wasn't there. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's so cool. Yeah, it'd be wild to see it.
Speaker 1:So if you have a house that's been kept in the family and you can look at all of those photos of what it evolved to, you know, someday if you have kids your kids will look at it and go, wow, but when our parents had that house it changed significantly from when Kelly's someone had that house. You know, it's just nuts. Life is so weird.
Speaker 2:The nostalgia thing is so weird. It is Millennials, we dig it, we do love, we love our nostalgia specifically. So whether I should say love hate, love hate.
Speaker 1:What's that song? It's like oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time, like I like thinking about it, but at the same time I'm like ooh, but if I think about it enough, it can make me cry.
Speaker 2:You know I mean that's, that's nostalgia, that's yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, photograph your people, photograph your places before you have to say goodbye to them, because sometimes it can be just as hard to say goodbye to your favorite places as your favorite people.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:That's it, that's it. That's all I got. That's all I got for this one.
Speaker 1:The next one is going to have to be mostly you, because I feel like I was just talking forever on this one. Did you get a good story? Good story?
Speaker 2:Yeah, great story. No, it's all good.
Speaker 1:But seriously, you and Kelly should be photographing every nook and cranny of your house.
Speaker 2:It's. I've already been thinking about this entire time in the back of my head, like all the different things, that I could be doing this as a project for like.
Speaker 1:Like the basement.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But wait before we're done with this. Oh my God, I totally forgot to tell you this. It has nothing to do with anything. I Okay. So on prime day I was like I really want a projector. I've always wanted a projector. I didn't know. I was like what am I going to do with it? I don't know. We could have movie nights on the back, like thing, and then when we do the basement we can have the projector down there. And so I'm trying to convince myself. My cousin's like just do it, it's normally $140. Right now it's 90. Like okay.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, dude, I ordered it.
Speaker 2:Hey yeah of course.
Speaker 1:So then here's the thing, though. Then later on that day, I saw that one of my favorite artists she's one of my favorite photographers she posted a like a memory session of this girl who lost her dad, and they did this really cool thing with a projector. And I totally caught that it was a projector, but I my brain didn't like put the two and two together. Yeah, so my daughter was writing a car like a father's day card to her dad, which totally tugged at my heartstrings. Her dad had passed away, and what they did was they did. They set up the projector so that it almost looked like her dad was sitting on the other side of the table with her. They like took a photo of him and he was sitting in the photo, so they had it like almost like on the chair. So she's across the table writing like basically like a thank you to her dad for everything that he did for her.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then on the other side, you know his hologram kind of, and I was like, oh my God, that's so cool. You know, like I I almost like I wish I thought of that right Cause now if I do it it's copying somebody else's idea, but like that's freaking awesome. So then later on in the in the session they had, she had these awesome photos of this of this girl and it had like a spotlight that was like it almost like covered half of her face, but it was so the cutoff was so intense that I was like how did they do that? You know, and of course I had just seen the dad on the projector and stuff, but like I didn't put the two into.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, how did they do that? And then I look up and like, brushing my teeth getting ready to go to a session, and I look up on YouTube like DIY photographer, spotlight hard cut or something like that, because the way that the light cut on her face was like so cool and the guy goes well, the first thing you're going to need is a projector and I was like, oh my God, the universe just wanted you to have this projector. I know I did, but it was really cool. I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to send you the series, like the set Cause I was like I was just amazed. It was like painfully beautiful, but it was something that I hadn't really seen with someone who had lost someone and did a memory session. So, listen, I got a projector, I'm ready to play, but I just thought that was, I know I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm going to have a projector.
Speaker 2:It's probably in the mail. You timed that perfectly. The universe made the right choice, helped you push into that projector. So glad you got that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so so stay tuned, you'll see some projector photos.
Speaker 2:Hey, nice.
Speaker 1:But anyway, that's all I got so.
Speaker 2:Perfect, all right, we'll talk next week. Okay, bye, guys, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.