Pineapple instead of horses October 13, 2023
She apparently didn’t intend to post a video about chopping
up a pineapple – even though she previously posted one about a watermelon.
She had intended to do a video about horses.
She seems to have three different general categories for her
videos: food, travel and horses.
Sometimes these overlap or she has other animals such as her
dog or cat that get a bit part in these videos.
Problems at her apartment (yes, she says, she rents) forced
her to change her plan and do a food video in place of a horse video, but not
before she indulged in a rant against her landlord, who allegedly made a
repair, but flooding still occurred.
She lives in the poor side of town, an area that you might
get a glimpse of by watching the old TV show, “The Wire,” although she clearly
has no fear of that urban nightmare, walking her dog through some of questionable
landscape.
She claims she’s losing her mind because of the leak. She
apparently took the landlord’s word on the repair until a series of thunderstorms
sent more water surging into her apartment, and she had to get the towels out
and stuff them under the downstairs windows. At the time of the video, forecasters
forecast more rain, because she says is frustrating and depressing, and forced
her to put off her riding instructions.
The visual format for her food videos differs slightly from the
other categories, even though they sometimes start off similarly with a series
of short shots of her talking.
This and the watermelon video were clearly strongly influenced
in their visuals by some of the more cutting edge cooking shows, featuring a
camera angle looking down at the cutting board (she pokes her head under it to
grin at the camera before yanking out some expensive food cutting implement and
getting to work, talking over the visuals as she slices the pineapple.)
She plays a bit of classical music as she works.
She uses a series of short takes to reduce the film time it
actually takes to strip the skin of the fruit, complaining that she will have
to take out the nobs, and saying for all that work, in the end, she’ll likely
have only two pieces of fruit.
At some point, someone calls on the phone and she had to put
her dog into the bedroom.
“It breaks my heart,” she said.
The process went well, and she noted that the fruit contains
ingredients that help against depression.
In this video, she actually ate a bit of the end product,
saying people like to see her consume what she is working with.
“The next time, we’ll do a horse video,” she promises as she
signs off.
Even with the limited camera angles, this and other videos
shows her little world, and those things she carried from the place where she used
to live in the north – with a number of small additions made over the ten year
period in between.
She clearly is comfortable in front of the camera, able to talk
to her audience without the necessity of a script, having adopted an on-screen persona.
This is a warm and sometimes funny character, devoid of
Chaplin’s sad character, clearly trying to present something hopeful and cheerful
for her audience.
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