vog (a BETA videoblog)

Shot on my little consumer level Nokia phone, a street corner nearby my hotel in Montréal. Machinery working under industrial light on a May night, the incandescence too hot for the chip burning out the detail. City, the same somewhere else but busy drilling digging deep down with the men being like the same here in Melbourne but different. Posture, clothes, milieu. Near enough to be almost, different enough to difference. The first proposition about movement. Nine different video files, each made and kept large enough (they total 18.5MB for this noisy 28 seconds) so that the network can cause lag, interruptions, stutter. Some will load, some not quite, some will play while others might still be loading. This is not one video with a faux fancy After Effects moment but a video file that loads into itself 9 others. First proposition? Video for the network is discontinuous, fragmentary, looping, partial. Wholes are provisional. It is only about relations between parts. Even on my laptop it is too big to play properly...

The first proposition? That video online is not a video but videos. (It is always about open sets of possible relations.)