This is the age of the internet video clip. There could be a series of clips featuring a person or some location except that all of the footage is extremely shaky, purposefully so, by waving and shaking the camera around. There may or may not be anything going on, not that you could easily tell. Or perhaps you could tell from the soundtrack or other features. The soundtrack could be deliberately misleading. These clips would be made to be deliberately unwatchable. What is this? A cry against some aspect of the video clip age, or making fun of something that gets lots of attention, or the fact that we ourselves are not participating in it? Is this always the first kind of video clip that anyone or everyone tries to make? There could be a very long sequence of video clips wherein we see all the elementary ingredients that make up video clips - pushing buttons on the phone or camera, aiming it somewhere, trying to stay balanced on two feet, using phonemes to build up the sounds of spoken language, using a suite of muscle and limb movements to put together the varieties of human physical motion, seeing somehow the very electrons moving in circuits and wires, the operation of the human brain, everything that’s ever happened.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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