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VOILA!

"Published on Jan 2, 2014
i struggle for coherency, clarity and order in a world fraught with lighthearted goodness, mundane reality, motherhood, the verge of falling asleep, the upbeat disconnected world of social media and it's punishing clutch on jarring jingles, selfies and a clusterlike of memes. i dare you to endure this video and let it move through you like water. a new type of ambient film using the cut up technique with cheesy ipod apps only. a modern western from one woman's point of view. i upload this in the few minutes i have between getting my children ready for school, winding down and trying to synch my ipod to itunes and it giving me some unknown hellish error, trying to figure out just how the sharing thing works with itunes (unknown), where did my bloody valentine mp3s go? and now oops, it's almost time for everyone to come home from school and wtf did i do? i jumped up on an altar with a t shirt written on it "I AM GOD", in my mind, then went to hide in my closet to document my clothes in a blurry way for no reason at all except that i had had a bit too much cheap champagne on new year's eve. time to unload the dishwasher. do you like my new hair colour? how was your day?"

https://vimeo.com/83257662

i wish i could figure out how to embed this video in here.
does anyone know?
i clicked the "insert video" thing and it just comes up as a link

edit here:



i struggle for coherency, clarity and order in a world fraught with lighthearted goodness, mundane reality, motherhood, the verge of falling asleep, the upbeat disconnected world of social media and it's punishing clutch on jarring jingles, selfies and a clusterlike of memes. i dare you to endure this video and let it move through you like water. a new type of ambient film using the cut up technique with cheesy ipod apps only. a modern western from one woman's point of view. i upload this in the few minutes i have between getting my children ready for school, winding down and trying to synch my ipod to itunes and it giving me some unknown hellish error, trying to figure out just how the sharing thing works with itunes (unknown), where did my bloody valentine mp3s go? and now oops, it's almost time for everyone to come home from school and wtf did i do? i jumped up on an altar with a t shirt written on it "I AM GOD", in my mind, then went to hide in my closet to document my clothes in a blurry way for no reason at all except that i had had a bit too much cheap champagne on new year's eve. time to unload the dishwasher. do you like my new hair colour? how was your day?

"an experimental western from one woman's point of view and state of being" by ana voog

https://vimeo.com/82485089

Phrenology of the Selfie from ana voog on Vimeo.

"First, I believe it's well past time to move beyond thesis/antithesis questions like, "Is social media empowering, or is it disempowering?" even when they wind up in faux-synthetic proclamations like, "It's a bit of each!"

Second, I think it's time to actively resist the ideology that history, particularly technological history, is always an onward and upward affair. Right now, we live in a time where people suggest that the best solution for historically underrepresented women to get political power is to go online, yet the most visible women online endure sexist bullying on a daily basis. Until we come to grips with the fact that history--particularly media-enabled history-- is made of multiple moments that occur in complex spatial configurations that can and should be documented and studied, we need to stop with the wholesale power of representation talk.

Third, and in keeping with the above, I think we need to start thinking about social media less in terms of objects and artifacts (be they text, video, or advertisements) and more in terms of intersecting spaces of experience, consumption, and creation. I think we need to really speak to one another about how we experience these spaces, and how we see them intersecting with our ideas about privacy, publicity, individuality, community, excitement, boredom, frustration, stupidity, and so forth. I think we need to figure out how to make room for the fact that one person's shit is another person's treasure, but that's not the same as advocating for a moral relativism about what transpires in these spaces. Too tired to think much more about it now. More as I work through" ---Theresa Senft lj user="tsenft"


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