Ibon wrote:I can imagine you would engage in this topic from reading some of your past posts. Are there any links to any of these videos on line?
I'm making a "magnum opus" right now that veers into comic book/fantasy territory (because well, I kind of need the escapism), so all my recent clips are unlisted on Youtube in order to avoid spoilers. And because of the special effects requirements, it's taking a long time to make each segment. I want to publish it all at once, or at least without leaving any gaps in the middle.
The stuff I have up there now is over a year old and I've become much more skilled at using Xtranormal machinima technology.
The original Business as Usual is more of a simple study of Cassandra Syndrome. The "magnum opus" will be that too, but also a more full exploration of the constant push-and-pull of doomer archetypes that I've become so familiar with after hanging out on worldsends like this for years.
These clips below are all unlisted, most subject to change before their final version.
The characters in my
Hall of Justice, so to speak, all represent a particular doomer archetype.
And boy do they bicker.Here is a guy who was clearly inspired by MonteQuest.The other clip I linked to earlier is a lone survivalist who has bugged out ala Rockman.
The main character goes through all sorts of phases of grief.
This one I think has the most impact, representing fatalism. It is a mashup of Fiona Apple's Across the Universe music video with HD clips from "HomeProject" with my stuff on top.
Personally I think there are enough scholarly tomes about doom. Maybe there should be more dramatizations like World Made By Hand, and Kurt Cobb's Prelude--or Avatar if you want to include that. In our culture, at least secular pop culture, we are more apt to look to media (consciously or not) for pearls of wisdom than from a textbook. Richard Heinberg, Sharon Astyk, and JM Greer have the textbooks covered. This is my humble contribution.
I don't know if this will go viral or not, but I hope it does. If it doesn't, it at least gives me a way to be creative and "activist" at the same time.