A nice video with some striking visuals and the musical score by Zoe Keating.
Keating plays the cello by the way.
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December 15, 2011 at 10:33 pm
ED Denson
Who would have thought it would be so interesting to read hand lettered signs for 4 minutes. Brilliant piece of work, and a lot of work to do. Congratulations to the creator.
December 16, 2011 at 8:35 am
Anonymous
I didn’t hear a harp though
December 17, 2011 at 7:28 pm
skippy
Great video. Thanks, Eric.
December 17, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Anonymous
I prefer billboards and motorcycles.
December 18, 2011 at 8:07 am
Mitch
I agree completely with the sentiments of the video, and I agree that it is yet another moving example of this new (?) genre.
After seeing the scared-gay-kid video and this video, though, I’m beginning to wonder.
I’d guesstimate that each offers about 300 to 500 words.
Once upon a time, we were able to read for information and argumentation.
Have we all been so thoroughly trained by TV that reading 300 to 500 words is too much of a hurdle?
Or is it more that the general college-educated population has finally broken through to discover what used to be known only to advertising and sales professionals, and by other propagandists in the military?
If it’s the latter, or some combination, that’s great news as long as services like youtube continue to be uncensored, cost nothing, and be widely available within a community.
If it’s the former, and the only way to convince someone now is to develop a well-produced video with absorbing music and amateur actors signalling whether we should be happy, sad, angry, etc…, that’s pretty terrifying.
I’m not sure that we can count on services like youtube continuing in the manner in which they exist in this introductory window.
December 18, 2011 at 8:10 am
Mitch
8:35,
No harp music is required when the first thirty seconds of a piece have at least some Philip Glass inspiration. It’s in the elitist handbook. Also, as you probably noticed, 0:29-0:40 is an anti-Harley trifecta.
December 18, 2011 at 10:05 am
ED Denson
I think the reason this type of video works is that you get the message slowly and it has a chance to sink in while you wonder what the next bit will be. Paragraphs of dense text are all very well if you will spend the time on each sentence that it needs, but most of us will not because there are more paragraphs of dense text on the page and we move on to them. On the other hand getting all of our reading in these slow bits would lead us to quit reading pretty soon.