Lee, Not sure what you are ranting about... but I did detect a request for a plain explanation of the video.
It is a cute video where a bunch of "pixels" invade NY city. A bunch become bad guys from old video games and start taking apart the city (with most of their weapons turning real things into pixelated things). Even Pacman makes a showing, gobbling up the dots on the subway charts and thereby deleting stations. There is a quick part where Tetris pieces start falling from the sky to fill in the missing part of buildings. Needless to say, when a level of the building gets filled in, a part of the building disappears. I assume that is what Nick was reacting to. Weird to me that he connected it at all with 9/11. It was a clever video, that didn't seem to be advertising anything other than the company that made it (a company that apparently wants to break into a larger segment of the advertising market, having only made a handful of foreign commercials in the past). Eric On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 06:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Nick to Vic: > >> 911 still too raw for me to take pancaking >> buildings as any part of funny. > >I never follow up unexplained links to videos, >partly because with my slow connection all videos >load painfully slowly, mostly because I disapprove >of moving pictures in general (1. push media::BAD; >2. we aren't evolved to resist videos' inevitable extra >baggage, 3. if anything, we're evolved to far too >easily be sucked in by their extra baggage, 4... >I can rant on indefinitely, but won't now). >So I'm always glad when someone, even if not >the original poster, does explain--in words-- >WTF a profferred video link purports to be (other >than, essentially always unstated by the poster >even when smugly admitted by the videomaker [e.g., >in cases of explicit advertisements], some kind >of mindfuck--oops, there I go ranting again). > >In this case, though, Nick, is it supposed to be >"funny" or is it supposed to be "art"? Karl-Heinz >Stockhausen voted "art" for the original show >(specifically, I guess, "performance art"), >remember? (If you don't remember, go look it up, >it will be good for you, even if you didn't spend >far too many hours in the late 1960s listening to >Karl-Heinz's "Gesang Der Junglinge".) > >============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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