Crowdsourcing.....creating something huge from so many things!

Crowdsourcing is something that has always seemed cool to me, but I never knew how much went into it. Working on this project has opened my eyes to the variety it can bring to projects. One such example is Eric Whitacre’s virtual choir. This guy sent out music and a video of him directing it so people could get the tempo down, and received hundreds of videos of people singing different parts to the song. He then put them all together and had someone put each individual screen together with Eric’s in front, and it became a virtual choir. I was quite astounded by this feat as it was one of the biggest crowdsourcing projects I had ever come across. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

Also, I had never considered Wikipedia a crowdsourcing project, but it totally is! I am on Wikipedia almost daily, to look up information movies, actors, comic books, and etc. and it’s one of the coolest websites ever for having SO much information. I also find it interesting that many fandoms have their own Wikipedia site, such as the Marvel comics’ wiki, or my personal favorite, Star Wars’ ‘Wookiepedia’ site. These sites always have such an overload of information and I have spent hours researching on so much comic book lore my brain melts. Seriously.

These types of projects also make me wonder what else could be done with crowdsourcing. There is so much raw talent out there just waiting to be discovered, it makes one think, how can we tap into it?

As Neo would say, "Whoa."

Whoa. 

Synesthesia is an interesting concept. As I viewed the Wikipedia page, it defined synesthesia as, “a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” It gives examples such as 1980 actually feeling further away from 1990, or numbers/dates having precise locations in space and time.

As I read this, I wondered if I was one of the” synesthetes.” I began thinking and realized that with number a lot of the times, especially addition and subtraction, each number is almost a ‘shape’ or ‘size’ that fits together perfectly with other numbers to create the sum or minus. The best example I can give is that in my mind, 4 just magically combines and ‘fits’ together with 6 to create 10. It’s an odd phenomenon I cannot describe. I’m not sure if this is around the same territory as synesthesia, but it seems plausible. Interesting stuff! Daniel Tammet is an interesting man and his ideas on perception from his writings blew my mind. I was still skeptical on the subject but his talks convinced me, and has actually kind of made me reevaluate my thoughts on experimental film. Before, I tended to dismiss experimental but now I see that they can have a more profound effect when seen through the correct lens.

Cymatics are one of the freaking coolest things I’ve heard about in a long time! It’s simply amazing to see that sound can have such an effect on so many things, even mundane items like a metal plate. I wonder how that could be used to manipulate film in an experimental way. Maybe it’s been done? Also, as a Christian, I believe that God created this rich, complex world we live in and when I see discoveries like Cymatics, it just strengthens my belief that everything is truly connected, and that God created it that way. So cool. 

Whoa indeed.

Begone Dull Care......be who done what cave?

Unique, odd, confusing.

Those were my first thoughts.

Almost as if, little lights/lines are characters interacting, or possibly reacting, to one another or the music present in the film, creating all of the onscreen commotion that we see.

The music was extremely up beat, whereas most films of this nature tend to be quite somber.

Some of the images were interesting and definitely up to interpretation. For example, some resembled small creatures moving about, and others looked like strands of DNA. At one point an image resembled that of a barb wire fence one would see surrounding a prison. Was this commenting on relationships between such lights/line characters that are interacting? It's almost as if relationships are the prison.

The words at the end were peculiar. The only ones I caught were "end" which was the obvious one, and "slut." Was this word placed in the ending to comment on the "relationship" between the "characters" within the film? It could be signifying heartbreak through resentment and hateful words.

Or....

Is the film testing our brains here? Do we look for profanity and negativity when there is an absence of it? Or do we look for the "end" of something strange, that polarizes us? I am honestly not sure but the placement of those words most definitely got me thinking of multiple theories. Hm.