Simulataneous Space

A few weeks back I was watching "Who's Line is it Anyway" which is a
simulated live improv comedy show. The comics involved were doing a skit
that was to be X-rated with the bad words bleeped out. One comic stole the
show by saying "Want to see me make my hands blur?", at which point he hold
both hands up - and on the TV screen they were blurred, but from the
audience reaction you could tell they were an obscene gesture. Now it
struck me that for this joke to work, both the audience in person and
watching television needed to exist in simulataneous space, either current
and projected into the future, or current and projected into the past, as
well as needing to understand a fairly sophisticated cultural atmosphere of
censorship and what is considered obscene. Additionally, as with the other
Drew Carry show, there is almost a hands-up, we give up attitude towards
trying to create an illusion of a differing reality, and from fighting
corporate and government interests.

So, in my train of thought, it comes to me that artists are likewise
becoming exhausted. Oh sure, there is still some flabby attempts by hiding
behind a scientific and academic facade, but everyone knows its a bullshit,
marketing game (or gone off the deep end and believe their own shit - "yea,
maybe I AM GOD").

Whatever, here are some videos I made with these thoughts in mind, taking
you into some other spaces without really leaving mine.

http://electrichands.com/shorts/

joseph