Haunting and Poetic

I've decided to give this Blog concept a genuine 'shot', and so it'll start with this:





Produced by an individual named James Houston the work itself was created for a Radiohead contest (however was finished too late to be an entry). It's really difficult for me to say exactly why I found the whole experience, from the minute long loading sequence to the finality in ending, so touching. I don't consider myself too sentimental a guy, however I do feel that everything does have a bit of life to it. Even the mechanical things in our time, we grow attached to. Some people simply regard these pieces of our prior technology as garbage, however at one point these technological giants were the cornerstone of our industrial evolution. Take away anything so simple as a keyboard, or even reduce the size of someones monitor and suddenly they're living in a very different world. Maybe they have the natural capacity to adapt, but does that mean that they will? Or will they even accept it? I don't believe so.

What James Huston has done can be seen as merely a gimmick, or simply the novelty of someone who has too much spare time (or is just naturally too creative and thus needs an outlet to express this), but I feel this is cutting the work done here far shorter then it deserves. I feel this is a wonderful reminder of where we came from, and how everything that we create in this world is subject to multiple views and purposes. Perhaps when we begin to lose our usefulness in this modern society we can be so lucky as to personify ourselves with enough force and emotion as these outdated pieces of machinery were able to.