I'd like to talk about a video that was shown to me in class today by our lecturer. It was called HyperReality. I have seen a lot of videos on the internet. I mean an obsessive amount. I have integrated myself in internet culture to the point where I am fully aware of my addiction to be up to date with everything that I see. And through my countless hours of technology news, evolution advancements, FAILS and crappy cat videos, there are very few videos I have seen that have blown my mind to a point where I feel deeply educated and changed as a person. HyperReality is one of those videos.
I would also mention the video 'To This Day', made by a poet Shane Koyczan, where he uses his words along with amazing visual effects to deliver a message to all of those people the were bullied and brought to the brink of suicide, just to let them know that although things may not turn out the way they could have, that there is still hope.
Another video that is just as incredible is a music video named, 'MEMEME' and I can't stress enough that it is not safe for work and not for the shy, due to the nude and bloody animated imagery. Most people will look at it's flashing imagery as hentai, (japanese animated porn), however it most certainly isn't. It's as much porn as Game of Thrones is. But it shows the power of obsession to the internet, games, and isolation through unbelievable visuals and a song that switches genres multiple times throughout the 6 minute video. How your life can be torn apart by the fascination of living like a hermit, obsessed with a better reality that is not real. And that trying to get away from it and back into your normal life can be as easy as getting off heroin.
HyperReality shows what the near future could be like if we changed our way of life to blend in virtual/augmented reality. It was so well done and so realistic that you could easily believe that it is possible to happen with the next 20 years tops, if we decided to go in that direction.
I brought up in class that nowadays, due to video game culture has become a huge part of everyone's lives in some shape or form, we all yearn to change real life into a game.
But when you think about it, life already is a game. Just less simplified. We gain experience as we do something. We gain intelligence/strength when we read a book/go to the gym. We Level Up when we get promoted at work or learn to do a new skill like backflipping. We spend our money earned on things we want or we can spend it on food to fill our 'Hunger Meter'. We changed the 'skin' of our 'Avatar' by dressing into new clothes. Life is so similar to a game that we, mostly ages 40 and under, want to treat it like a game. HyperReality shows this beautifully and I would love to talk about this more to anyone who has also seen it.
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