Wednesday, January 27, 2016

"Heeeeere's Johnny...."



The whole chicken thing is ridiculous and frankly stupid, but the way in which the filmmaker used special fx programs (like AfterFx) to manipulate facial performances, settings and science fiction is ingenious. There is really nothing that a creative person cannot do now in terms of cinematic storytelling, and what makes a dumb video like this so meaningful is that is stands as evidence that what a computer can't do is invent a unique story 'idea.' Life experience, catharsis and the need to express oneself is what keeps us as artists, and our work, pure and human. 
That said- thank you God for this great tool called the home computer. 

A 5MB storage drive being loaded into a PanAm plane in the 1950's.

   bye.