Bubble

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Updated: 05-Dec-09
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The bubble is used in two metaphorical ways, one positive, one negative. A bubble can be protective, like the shell that insulated Bubble Boy from his toxic surroundings. The bubble is sometimes associated with spirituality, personal energy. And the quality of complete, seemless, cohesive and elastic surface is attractive when associated with things like learning and memory.

The video created with the idea of a video loop on a monitor and the video is kept deliberately lo-fi.
It recalls the feeling of the floating plastic bag in the movie American Beauty."

The negative association is also common, however. Bubbles are vapourous, illusory, short-lived and burst, leaving nothing behind. Thus, we speak of economic bubbles, real estate bubbles, the dot com bubble. In some cases, the positive, protective association combines with the negative one, as in the Bush Bubble, which both protects the President while making him vulnerable because he is too insulated from opinions that matter but simply cannot reach through the bubble around him.

The video is kept deliberately lo-fi. It recalls the floating plastic bag scene in the movie "American Beauty".
The video was made to be seen on a monitor and in an endless loop.
The video was also conceived with the cinematographic notion of the mise en abyme in mind. In this case a video in a video.