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Posts from January 2009

Perspectives: the ums and ahs of life’s big questions

(NOTE: Best played with headphones)

By BaseMOTION, the Perspectives Project uses traditionally conducted interviews and reprocesses them into a thought provoking film series.  Describing the project, they write:
While interviews traditionally present what people say, in Perspectives the interviewees don’t actually say anything. With the spoken portion of the footage edited out, Perspectives leaves only body language, [...]


Prettyloaded: it’s fun to keep waiting

Prettyloaded is a dynamic archive (or “web museum”) of loading screens.  Very interesting!  But I did find it kind of surreal to be consistently suspended in that intended liminal space where you are waiting to experience something, only to find yourself experiencing another wait time, and ad infinitum.


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