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{SPEAKER name="Jefferson Pinder"}
I've always had this fascination with the city, you know, with D.C., you know, because you find yourself there through it, and, it's, it's always kind of fascinating how when you drive down the streets, how the street lights change from yellow to this, this gray, this dark gray and all these trees kind of shade the street, kind of make it seem almost like, um, um, a different environment, you know, and I, I, I've always been fascinated with that, you know, just kind of like this going from, from one location to the other, you know, it's almost like the, the tale of two worlds.
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We grew up in, I guess, the suburbs of D.C. Both my parents worked in D.C. so it was kind of like an interesting, uh, separation, I think. My mom was a D.C. schoolteacher for over thirty years and I remember when she would take me into the school and how, um, just how, how intense, you know, her experience was, every day, coming in, into D.C, you know, the 70s and the 80s and what she had to deal with but, uh, my experience to it was a lot different.
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Mine was, was, you know, watching TV after school, you know, a latch key kid coming back home and, really getting into, I guess, the suburban life and, and, and that's what a lot of my work has to deal with is with this, is like, this duality of, um, of environment, you know, of, of putting yourself in one place and, and, and being attached to that environment but at the same time, kind of standing out from it.
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{SPEAKER name="Benjamin Bloom"}

As an artist, what, what other visual artists have influenced and inspired you?
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{SPEAKER name="Jefferson Pinder"}

As an artist, Stan Breckridge, you know, his film work, inspires me, and I don't, I don't know why that name popped out first but it did. Romare Bearden with his collage work certainly, I mean, Bearden, uh, Rauschenberg, David Driskell, are three really big, influences on my, I guess, more, more of my collage work and, and my still work but, I think about, you know, film making, Spike Lee, you know, walk in, to, "Do the Right Thing" and just, like, I'm not sure what to expect but knowing that it dealt with identity and then walking out thinking, "Oh, my God, that was, that was, that was a pill," you know, and that was just, you know, being blown away.
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Just not sure of, of, if I was the same person going in to that experience as I, as leaving it. So, a lot of my work has to deal with, you know, just connecting with these people and in, in some way, like, you know, in finding these moments, finding the, you know, the best moments in, in, in film and in video, and, and trying to portray it, you know, and not necessarily making it pretty but, but capturing the, the essence of, of a good moment.
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Of old films, like, family home movies is, is, has been big inspiration for me because, I remember those old 8 millimeter, reels and those are the reels that, like, some of my most precious thoughts are, you know, are, I guess, loaded on or, you know, I guess, or are captured on, and using that same medium to, to, to communicate something about, something that's contemporary is, is, is interesting because it, it, it gives it a, a, a nostalgia as well. So, so you're moving forward and, you know, and you're thinking about contemporary issues but you're using this, this archival medium and trying, to, to capture the essence of a particular moment.
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And sometime I, I, I just think there is nothing more poetic than seeing, like, um, a moving image and, and a palette of, of 8 millimeter, super 8 millimeter film and, and it says a lot about our youth and, and growing up in, in, in the suburbs, this idea of capturing time, you know, through film.

{SPEAKER name="Benjamin Bloom"}

I was reading your website and it said, it, it had a statement there that said, "I, I mind the media," and, how would you, how would you explain that?



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This could use more time stamps. Try to aim for a maximum of two lines of text on the screen at any given time. Thanks! - Emily, TC team I reopened this to add some time stamps, remove a LOT of "ums" and add the names of speakers that weren't indicated.