A marketer at heart, a storyteller, ambitious cinematographer and photographer. I was born and raised in Athens, Greece. I currently live in London working in AdTech and capture London in stills or videos in my spare time. More
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Is baby food making art or science? I’m only joking. Everyone knows it’s art. In this short blog post, I’m taking you down the process of making a short video about baby food preparation. And if you don’t know my style already, it’s somewhat of a parody one.
Will Smith once said; “The new TV I had recently bought came with a 100-page manual. I now had a baby in my arms and not a single page of instructions.”. When I first heard this I laughed thinking it can’t be that hard caring for a baby. Of course, we’re not born knowing how to raise a child, but we’ll figure it out when the time comes. And then, 13 weeks before my firstborn is due, it hit me. I’m nowhere near competent enough to raise a child. So I took on reading.
I know what you’re thinking. Not another video where Nikos is drinking again. Well, I don’t drink in this video. At least not on camera. But let’s face it, alcohol makes for an interesting subject in any situation. Jokes aside, filming this commercial-style video was a great way for me to keep sane during this pandemic since I’m not exactly "allowed” to go out and shoot yet. But in all honesty, I won’t judge you if you wanted to have a pint after watching the video.
Two year’s worth of footage and photos are gone. There’s no way to recover them and I have only myself to blame. And that’s all because spending north of $80 a couple of years back seemed like an unnecessary and costly expense. I couldn’t be more wrong. Let me explain.
Last year more than 60,000 London homes were broken into. One of those was of my good friend and best man who came home from work one day only to find out his apartment of 6 years was broken into in the middle of the day. That gave me an idea to stage and film my very own break-in... of my own apartment.
Some people ask me why I don’t vlog and still use this “old fashioned” medium that blogging has turned into. I could simply say that “scripta manent”, but in this digital world, the same applies to spoken words and videos. But for me, there’s something a lot deeper in blog than this.
