The Camcorder Emoji

Like so many teens before us, my childhood friend Chris and I were absolute idiots. We considered it suitable to document our idiocy using a camcorder that Chris had gotten for his birthday. The video resolution was as low as 320 × 240 and the sound quality was horrendous. In the beginning of the millennium, with this novel way to visually record our shenanigans, we kept a finger on the pulse of the time. In the earliest of these videos, I jumped off from the staircase in front of the house and landed on my knees, on the concrete floor. Today, it amazes me, that I did one of my most extreme stunts right at the beginning of my promising career as a stuntman. Other "stunts" we usually did could be placed into one of the following categories: jumping into bushes, rolling off hills, falling off skateboards and a lot of sliding—sliding on wet lawns after it had rained in the summer months or sliding down the hill in winters that brought plenty of snow. What we produced over the course of…