I distinctly remember sitting in a darkened movie theatre in the 80’s with my mom and having her lean over and whisper in my ear “one day in the not too distant future” [this is well before the term CGI was part of the common vernacular] “one watching a movie will be unable to tell the difference between what is real and what is not real, then what?”.
That day has pretty much come and gone me thinks. Now what?
When things are not what they seem, close your eyes and kiss your ass goodbye.
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Jose // May 29, 2007 at 7:37 am |
Your mom was a very wise person. She knew. Our imaginations are being played with and sometimes we don’t know if it is reality or fiction. Films have made much for this to happen.
As an example I always remember Bush landing in a fighter on the landing deck of a aircraft carrier near Iraq, dressed as a jet pilot, saying that the Iraq war was over. This paraphernalia made a hero of him before many eyes but we all know now what he really is!
1loneranger // May 29, 2007 at 3:39 pm |
Precisely Jose, reality seems to get blurrier everyday. A part of me is nostalgic for the days of oil lamps and town squares, days I never knew. Don’t get me wrong , I don’t consider my self a raging luddite, I enjoy the access to high-tech gadgetry and entertainment as much as the next person but I like to think I haven’t forgotten how to leave it all behind either if need be. I can’t stand those people who spew cliches like ” I don’t know how I survived without my Blackberry, cell phone, etc.” I think we did just fine.
The American cultural voyeur and comedic anthropologist George Carlin often makes light of the inevitable collapse of modern high-tech electricity driven western societies with pure giddiness and excitement. Part of me shares his fascination and funny neurosis. Our society becomes more fragile and more distracted with each new electronic gadget and our dependance on it I think. And of course these ‘things’ help to blur the lines between what is fact and what is fiction. The oncoming true virtual world will be a strange one indeed.
Jose // May 29, 2007 at 9:02 pm |
Lamp lights, log fires, we sometimes long that life, dont’ we? Time to think for ourselves, no influential buffoon behind the news.
Virtual world, perhaps that would life after humanity is extinct.
1loneranger // May 30, 2007 at 12:58 am |
Jose~
I long for those things all the time and I try to get out and ‘get dirty’ as often as I can to feed that craving.
The only fault I can identify w/ this CGI image is that it is too perfect, no smudges or fingerprints on the glasses. Such is virtual life, the beauty of ‘real’ life of course is the smudges. I love hearing great musicians make mistakes.
Jose // May 30, 2007 at 7:39 am |
I understand you, 1loneranger, being human is the word here. And acknowledging one’s own errors.
The day important human beings realise they must publicly own up to their own mistakes, the world may go smoothly.
Trying to be super-humans leads to mistakes impossible to correct.
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