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First full music video in the “SciFi Heaven” Style. It is very abstract, spare, and more observational than story driven (the others will be much more character/story/dance driven, I think). I’m starting to get sick of calling this stuff SciFi Heaven. I thought it would be edgy-sounding but the word heaven is kind of an interesting one... Religious connotations which was intentional with all of the symmetrical geometry, and how that organized spirit represents a positive striving and an awe at being/existence....but I’m agnostic.I dunno...anyway maybe I should swipe South Park’s word “Imaginationland”? ha...

Back to the video at hand. This is “I’m In Love With A German Film Star” by The Passions. I thought a contemplation of male gaze, artist’s reverence for beauty, art-lover’s relationship with the screen, actress’ relationship to all of this, would be a good fit to address with these visuals. Abstractly, what you’re seeing is my take on perhaps what a dream would be like after seeing an amazing German Expressionist Science Fiction film. The last two shots represent our film-goer’s neurons, physical memory of the film and dream, connecting with the rest of his life’s memories/experiences. Enjoy!

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Scifi Heaven folds and unfolds.

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Symmetry and Shade 

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2014 sequence transition overlay testing // peace powers

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Transitions // integrated tests // peace power

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What vital information do you need to remember in your own mind? How about in the case of a natural or national disaster? or family emergency? What would you want to make sure that you knew? What if things get real bad for awhile?? (Solar flare knocks out satellites or someone cuts the ocean internet lines, etc) The purpose of Sci-Fi Heaven is to provide a visual vehicle or aesthetic for my Memory Castles Experiments project. 

This project was created for the purpose of educating the public about their own automatic skill for remembering using Memory Palace techniques (see Joshua Foer’s “Moonwalking With Einstein” for a fun Pop-Science explanation). These techniques are easy and proven but are foreign to public education and we hope to change that. Our over-dependency on Google needs a counter-balancing effort and we need it now. My video experiments will be true scientific experiments, as we gather data in attempt to create a video that uses these techniques, but most importantly, this project was created to spread the awareness of Memory Palaces to encourage a viewer’s own personal study of these hugely useful mental tools.

What I would like to bring to Video is an exploration of Utility beyond storytelling. We need to think sideways and diagonally. What if you could watch your favorite music video and a title card pops up at the end explaining that you now know basic CPR training? We think its possible to create and that is what we are trying to do - Encourage strong utility of imaginative action. 

More explanations to follow as I begin to hone in on the articulation of this now 3-year vision, peace and love, -Ben

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