"TV has been attacking us all our lives - now we can attack it back" - Nam June Paik

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

World of Viewing

The view from the bedroom window can be voyeuristic, soothing, or just heartwarming. A bedroom window is a window both metaphorically and physically that one can view the world. It’s that area that gives you that home loving feeling and security that you can view and act upon anything you like that happens to be in the viewing area provided for you. The feeling that you get from viewing from this window depends on where your window is located physically and metaphorically where you interpret someone else’s work. You can say that a window that overlooks a 24/7 gas station or right across from your neighbors in building 1009 with their shades always open as voyeuristic but in that same window you can see the price of gas going down or the neighbor kids kicking around a ball giving you different feelings on what you can view from just that location. A bedroom window could also be seen as a vulnerability in the way that one could break in and completely shatter that feeling of security just as one may receive nothing but negative criticism from a piece they just put up for people to view. It also allows other people to look into the artist themselves just as one could be seen from anyone on the other side of the window. Unlike the physical bedroom window, an artist doesn’t have blinds or shades. Their piece is a completely open window to themselves with no option to cover up.
The parallel universe view is what I would like to believe is happening right now and will forever. It is sort of a two part view. The first part being that everything in your control that didn’t happen happened. Everything that you didn’t say, you said. Every thought you had, you acted upon it. This is shown on a wall of monitors. A lot of monitors. If a movie would be shot like this I would like to make it an interactive piece and make it like one of those choose your adventure books. The second part is a little harder to describe for it’s in real time but at the same time past and future. It would go a little like the actions that you did in the past you can see happen at the current time that you are seeing this in someone else that you feel that you have a connection/can relate to. I would say an example of this would be if you saw someone that you could’ve turned into and you feel that there was connection that you knew everything about that person and they took a different path then you and you are currently seeing them now. It also works with what you want/going to do such as for some a settle down and have a family or get a job as a car salesman. One day you go out for dinner with a couple of friends and see a family sitting in the corner and something about that family just clicks with you in the way that everything you would want it to be. All of your opinions about whoever you are married to looks like and how that correlates with how many children you have and how they are dressed. Everything about that family is just perfect and you can see yourself as that person being it the wife or husband. Back to the first part of this parallel universe viewing I think can be best said in the scene of The Matrix: Reloaded when Neo finds the architect.
My third view would to see what the world would look like from the eyes of a dog. The vision of a dog is not what I had previously known as just gray but includes colors from a light, soft yellow to white to a light, soft blue, teal, and purple then to gray. I think that it would be kind of cool to see what my canine friend sees. The viewing distance on a dog is also much different than that of a human in the way that an object is the clearest at 20 feet for them and everything else that they are not focusing on is a little blurry.

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