Maybe the networked landscape offers the thrill of archeology for the reader, like digging up little photo, sound, and video tiles that lead the reader on to find the mosaic. Maybe, in some ways throwing these fragments out into the digital desert is part of the poetry. I think of it as reading sentence fragments, or stanzas and never seeing the whole poem.Īt this point, each media is like a different language and trying to put them all together into a single whole is a Wasteland exercise… and the wasteland is patrolled by Minutemen and snakes. People seem to get something out of the picutres and the videos as pictures and videos, etc., but I always feel they are missing half the point.
One of the realities I’ve come to deal with is that many more people are going to see my work as discrete media objects on flickr and vimeo than will ever make it to the blog to read these things together in the way that I intended. I tend to use a bunch of media sharing services for IT IN place both as a way to host media and as a way of advertising. If things appear on a digital page together, they are meant to be surrounded by a trompe l’oeil metallic players just so that there’s no aesthetic miscegenation going on. They like to have their still photos at flickr and their video on You tube and their music on i-tunes, and their book on tape as a podcast, etc. I thought that logic would translate very easily to a still image and a moving one, or a sound and word, but It seems that people like compartments. In painting, you take two paintings and put them side by side: BANG, you have a diptych. A photograph and a drawing will both appear on a digital page as jpegs, but it still seems a little tricky to get people to look at them in relation to each other. In the way that their eyeballs see them and their earballs hear them. I don’t know enough about flash coding, but I worry that these walls are all already there in the very way that people read different media.
So, is flash like that damn wall they keep threatening to build in Texas, or built once in Germany and before that in China (and as a bird, or a bowerbird knows….walls never really work if you can fly over them, or go around)? In other words, it was a day like any other, but when I read Social Powerpoint, I considered how many little media format borders I’d just crossed and how many times I cross those borders on any given day in any given post and how much I take that freedom for granted. files off cds and layering tracks and looping them and turning them into mpegs. I’d spent the morning manipulating a scanned image of Ditr Roth, by taking this video clip from Vimeo and downloading the source quicktime (which Vimeo allows you to do) importing that into i-movie and exporting thirteen still images as jpegs to sequence into an animated gif. Ben’s post last week on the darker side of flash shone like a light bulb.
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