its banky | Somewhere Else: A Line Rider Love Letter @itsbanky | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 6 hours ago
far away, but not for long
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this track is a love letter! I'm a year out of college, and my partner just graduated, so we've been apart while I did job hunting and she finished college. (she got three (!!!) degrees and landed a sick job out of college -- I'm so proud of her.) I made this as an expression of what I thought commitment might look like while we can't be together all the time. it's based on a metaphor we've used as a way to explain that commitment -- that if our lives can branch in so many ways, commitment is the continual choice to grow our branches together.
the track itself has a complex history. rabid (Ben) made the track to be scened by someone else. it got bandied around for years, and finally, I said "hey, mind if I take a crack at this?" and they were more than happy to send it my way. I realized quickly that the song rabs had picked was a dead ringer for the way I was feeling about my relationship and the physical distance between us, so I got to work in my usual, fiddly way. if you want to support rabid's excellent artistic journey in concrete ways, you can become their patron here: patreon.com/rabidsquirrel
usually, it's hard to settle on an intended audience for a line rider piece, and I spend a lot of time worrying about what people might think about the things I make. this one's different. my audience is one person. if you got something from this video, that's awesome and I appreciate that, even if it wasn't made for you.
far away, but not for long
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this track is a love letter! I'm a year out of college, and my partner just graduated, so we've been apart while I did job hunting and she finished college. (she got three (!!!) degrees and landed a sick job out of college -- I'm so proud of her.) I made this as an expression of what I thought commitment might look like while we can't be together all the time. it's based on a metaphor we've used as a way to explain that commitment -- that if our lives can branch in so many ways, commitment is the continual choice to grow our branches together.
the track itself has a complex history. rabid (Ben) made the track to be scened by someone else. it got bandied around for years, and finally, I said "hey, mind if I take a crack at this?" and they were more than happy to send it my way. I realized quickly that the song rabs had picked was a dead ringer for the way I was feeling about my relationship and the physical distance between us, so I got to work in my usual, fiddly way. if you want to support rabid's excellent artistic journey in concrete ways, you can become their patron here: patreon.com/rabidsquirrel
usually, it's hard to settle on an intended audience for a line rider piece, and I spend a lot of time worrying about what people might think about the things I make. this one's different. my audience is one person. if you got something from this video, that's awesome and I appreciate that, even if it wasn't made for you.
