Write it Like a Seagull
“Who am I?
That’s a trick question
A joke question
The answer is ‘Boo’
For there is no
Considerate response
As apt as babble.”
Am I the story
Of my journey?
Am I simply the dream
I’ve chased and changed?
Am I defined by my
Abilities or the things
I enjoy?
I am more than that
But no more than the world
And people around me
My story is like all others
In that it’s hundreds of other
Stories I have perservered through
Dreams fought for and achieved
Or dreams changing in the waking world
My story is many stories together
I could not possibly tell them all
What is important is how
We take these stories and grow
There is room for you to see
Yourself in my story
And just as I have taken
Inspiration from past stories
To create things in life
So shall you with all your stories
And all your inspiration too.
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The above is the voiceover dialog of my film entry for the www.youtube.com/HP You-on-You contest, which has today been announced as a Semi-Finalist! You can visit the official video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRlfltwXq-8 or go to the contest site itself, click on “View + Vote”, and look for “Write it Like a Seagull” in this week’s top entries! To vote for it, all you have to do is click on the little, green Thumbs-up that pops up in the banner ad if you go to the video directly, or will be to the right of the video if you visit the contest page. If you’d like, I’d greatly appreciate everyone who felt like linking the video to their friends, their blogs, facebooks, or twitters to encourage people to vote. You can also bookmark it, and vote daily if you enjoy it that much! My goal with the video was to illustrate the atmosphere of struggle, inspiration and hope as an artist in life, without ever directly saying, “I am an actor,” or “I am a writer,” or even “I am an artist.” My other goal was to create a video that my family both understood and enjoyed, which is a much harder task than you might imagine. As it is, my mother loves this, so it’s already successful for me on two levels!
Moving on to the Finalist round will give me access to the Finalist cash prize, which will be a strong help in replacing my car which was totalled out by my insurance company after hitting a deer. If I do move on to the Finalist round, I will naturally be promoting this video again for the Grand Prize, which will go a long way–if not ALL the way–in allowing me to get the Master’s degree I’ve been trying to save for. By being judged a Semi-Finalist, I have already won an HP Artist’s Edition laptop, so we can do this!
Thank you very much, and if nothing else, please enjoy my video!
