Final version of The Machine is Us/ing Us . . . and some interesting responses
With no time to leave my prelims and teaching work, I thought I’d take a few minutes to share a couple video responses to Michael Wesch’s video.
The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
RE: The Machine is Us/ing Us
RE: The Machine is Us/ing Us
There were several others . . . for the most part, people simply trying to capitalize on the video’s popularity, and then there was the concise response of one woman looking into to camera for a few seconds and saying, I believe, “Blow,” at the end of the clip.
Awesome. Thanks for posting these. Lots to talk/think about here (in fact, if we want to give in to the pedagogic imperative we could easily think of a writing assignment that asks students to respond to and/or evaluate these arguments…). For now, I’ll just say it’s interesting that the second vid exists very much as a response to Wesch’s original vid. So would this response then be a simulation of participation? Would it be non-participation? Why not participation?
Comment by scot — March 21, 2007 @ 2:54 am
I really like this video for the way it gets you to open your mind to digital media. It is very hypnotic, it also provoked something in me I believe.
I have this habit of flying through my texts every once and a while to refresh my mind on techniques and ideas to structure the future creativity of projects in my line of work. The way this video is structured I think, gave me a jumping off point to seeing text as it comes visually. Now this could just be crazy, but I scroll really fast through my electronic texts and it almost simulates what this author does with the video. When I am in this mode my mind is really open looking for ideas and techniques, with this in mind I found it interesting what my brain started grabbing out of the blur of text. I don’t know if this makes any sense, it is kind of hard to talk about. What do you think? Have you ever had a similar experience?
Comment by CoolData — March 23, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
Interesting! I’m seeing this everywhere now, and I heard he just got a mention in Wired. Pretty cool for a guy from Kansas.
Comment by Alice — April 29, 2007 @ 11:13 pm