vog (a BETA videoblog)

The day after (do you think we can get a latte?).

(Of course it isn't so much neo realist as a colourful and informal sketch a la Antonioni. But that's not really the case, is it? No. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is not the lack of a 'story' that is relevant but a series of action images (shots directed by a movement where an expectation is proprosed and answered by the film, train leaves frame, cut, train enters frame). And then it loops. Repetitively. This places the action image series into a larger set that approaches what Deleuze considers the condition of the time image. If only because the sensory motor schema is now broken. Action and reaction appear to break. But in screen based media this doesn't quite work as you can always stop the bloody thing. This, certainly at this point in time, appears to me as the reinsertion of the sensory motor schema into the time image. At the moment this is the most signifcant point of 'interactivity' in this medium.)

The commentary above was originally hidden on the page that embedded this video via a comment tag (ah, the old days of net.art). When you click on the video it loads, in place, a QuickTime text movie which contains the original HTML code for the page, including the commentary. In migrating the project to the new site I had thought this link was broken, and without the original project files there would be no way for me to correct the scripted URL. However, turns out I'd written it as a relative URL (now that is unusual foresight) and so once I had the two videos in the right place, relative to each other, it works a treat.