Some Quotes That Have Made Me Think

Definition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop Cey Adams with Bill Adler
"Like the Dadaist and the Surrealists, the pure writer is one who pushes the envelope, breaks the rules a little bit. and, in the process is a thorn in the side of the status quo and conformity-a necessary role in a democratic society where those in power are known to consistently flout the rules themselves. Like any other artist, the writer makes art because he or she has to. Guided by a streak of good old-fashioned anti-authoritarian ambition and driven by an urge to be heard, these writers their art in their souls. As graf king Lee Quinones has said, "graffiti is an art and if art is a crime, let God forgive all.' In order to keep up with the increasing mitilarizaiton of civic police, today's rebels have retained the graf pioneer's sense of guerilla tactics and elaborate planning."

I have started reading Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
"The whole sphere of authenticity eludes technological - and of course not only technological - reproduction"(Benjamin 21)

I am interested in revealing the frames of video editing - the possibilities - the ability to cut to show layers so that the corporate techniques of flattening of adhering to a certain static image can be undermined - Benjamin talking about film says "The most important social function of film is to establish equilibrium between human beings and the apparatus" (37) ---Those who create the film - such as fake youtube blogging - advertisments that create themselves as memes - working in the service of $ and Control - work to soothe the rupture b/t film and life - but I want to speak about the tools necessary to create - the ability to see through the forest - our eyes have been trained through the tube in our living room, now our vision jumps to a hyper connected medium - and we feel an illusion of true connection - which may be real. But it may be a lie and the only way to see through it is to see the tools necessary to speak to create to film etc. How can we unveil the YouTube inorder to envision a future - to create to refuse the silence of the Eye we believe is always watching us. The Eye that we are investing so much in. Why not unveil the I and then?!?! Instead of passivly watching the image we should go out and activly engage the image - How do we awake within the dream world? How do we awake within the Net?