This was my plan B. I had originally intended to build a mask that was going to be badass. The idea behind the mask was that it was the face of cthulhu (an alien squid-dragon-god beyond the ken of man based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft... to learn more type him into your local google engine!) made out of wires and cables. It's cool because Cthulhu's all about ending the world and reveling in the chaos of a new one, which in a way is what the internet is about, and the internet is made up of wires and cables (and tubes...)

So, that brings us to this project. Bars and Tone Sing was actually an idea I had been kicking around for quite a while, and I decided that ultimately it was pertinent to this class. The idea of the byproduct of the technology we create being its own sentience is compelling in the dialogue of Weird Science, I think... so I took that facet of the silly little sketch and expanded it into the rest of Channel Surfing.

The basic method I took to make this video was starting with a core concept withs ome pretty intense restraints and then riffing on that within the confines of my resources (namely, flash and Final Cut Pro.) The Channel 679 incident was one of the first to develop, and set the range between 666 and 777 to play with. I like including the 666 and 777 stuff because I think it adds a weird dash of creepiness which makes the video sublime- kind of horrifically beautiful (this use may be inaccurate. I integrated it from H.P. Lovecraft's essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, so take your beef to him). I think the concept of the sublime is also integral to how Weird Science works, because the mix of fear and fascination with what we are capable of dominates science fiction and even modern society.