“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, August 14, 2011

Starting a New Video

...always fun to do that. I started to get the slideshow together while watching an episode of Twin Peaks last night—I'm going through them again having not really seen them since they first happened.

It's very bright this morning. I think I'm going to go with being flooded with light, as it sort of speaks to the issue at hand, which is another iteration of the time of hyperobjects.

It's also the case that given the amount of media saturation we have, a certain crudity is inevitable, since my gear (one laptop camera) just can't compete; yet possibly charming in its own way. We shall see.

When I first showed an mp3 recorder to my colleagues, it was as if I had spoken a string of nonsense words while holding an object that was impossible to see. That was about five years ago and nothing has changed...at least in my neck of the woods.

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