Tradition is BAD, BAD, BAD and WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
"Normal" is the pathology of the merely average.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Okay, I had to remove that version of "How We Created the Land of the Future" because I made a mistake with the audio track (I used the version which hadn't been normalised) so here's the repaired version: An environmental deconstruction of modernity's ending.
An animated abstract painting in a 3D environment (using the freeware program "Debugmode Wax" which allows 3D video making) and with "Twisted Brush" free edition. Music made in VSThost and other free programs.
When I was 20 years of age I made the disastrous mistake of joining a pseudo-religious cult where I was hypnotised and brainwashed for the next six and a half years. Their "teaching" was a hodge-podge and grab-bag of ideas taken from Buddism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hiduism, Taoism, Rudolf Steiner, Spiritualism, Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, etc. etc. etc.
Amongst this dragon's booty of stolen gems was the idea that the Egyptian Ankh seen in 2-dimensional hieroglyphs might be a 3-dimensional object composed of 3 circular rings on the 3 axes of geometric space.
During my "brainwashed years" I was encouraged to believe all manner of rubbish and nonsense but this idea of a 3D Ankh has stayed with me as a fascinating mental exercise. Google Sketchup allows me to draw the shape and rotate it around in the time axis, so here it is, with music made in VSThost and Hammerhead.
A short deconstructionist movie about the world and our perceptions of space-time. This is episode one of several. Much of the source material is from the Prelinger Archives.
When I was about 8 or 9 years old I read "The Boys Book of Space" and was really inspired by it. One of the articles was about astro-navigation, dealing with the principle of thinking in 4 dimensions.
4-dimensional thought means aiming at where the target is GOING to be when the projectile gets there, not where the target is now. There's no point in going to where Mars is now because Mars won't be there by the time you arrive.
As a kid I got so much into this idea that walked across roads knowing that I could get to the other side without being run over as long as all the cars kept moving at the same speed, there would be a clear path in 4D. However, the car drivers were thinking in 3 dimensions and so skidded to a screeching halt even though they were in absolutely no danger of hitting me. I felt very frustrated by everybody else's inability to "see" 4D in their mind's eye.
Another 4D picture I could see in mind was how a tetrahedron might look if rotating in the time continuum. I realised that a tetrahedron rotating would look like a pentagram. No-one else knew what I was talking about.
These days, thanks to Google Sketchup it's possible to sketch my ideas in a moving video form, so here it is.
