Zero Hour
Left my computer with 3 and a half hours worth of rendering last night and it had some kind of error so I’m currently re-rendering that, once it’s done I’ll have just a little time to finish rendering the final cut of the video and get it compressed / uploaded. It will be finished and ready to show by the presentation, but it’s been a hectic 48 hours or so to get to this point.
As I was working on the project I came up with ideas (the process of working on it changed my concept for the end result somewhat) and I ended up trying to draw modern parallels in technology to much of what Engelbart talks about. Some of what he says in defining the HIRC’s goals couldn’t really be visualized so I went with some abstract, symbolic visuals in those places. I edited the original audio a ton, sometimes just cutting out single words hear and there for clarity, other times removing pauses between words to give it a rhythm that would mesh with the music. Hopefully the result will be something that is interesting and relevant not only to people already interested in the subject, but to anybody who uses modern technology. That’s part of what made ‘The Machine is Using Us’ so good and I hope I can attain a similar feel in my video.
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