We took
social media
for granted
and
complained
too much
about it.
The year was ... 2014
"football is popular because stupidity is popular".
Jorge L. Borges
'Look Down' - by Gary Tusk
A spoken word film for our online generation.
Memories of the flawed Future:
Life in modern speeches. 2014 revisited
Task. Compare the videos and feed your moodle task.2. Quote from Best comments on YOUTUBE
- Say how much it has evolved...
- Use at least 2 parodies.
FIRST. Listen to them and enjoy the playful language.
EXPECTED OUTCOME:
make A CASUAL spoken reaction ( 2-3 minutes)
The best work could be if you also write 5 lines with some text from the videos.
Suggeted structure of your contribution: Quote the speakers, please
- State 2 things u agree with Gary Tusk + 2 things u disagree
- From the parody n. XXX It was much better at .....// Best lines where.....
- From the parody n.YYY I almost laughed /mostly split my sides at ....
on
HOW do we live (!) the modern way, Not Chaplin here, though.
Original and some good parodies, like with the ryming and all,
Look up is a truly inspirational video,
Look down is a technical response. Vote for your the best option....
- Gary TURK?
- or .......
choice _1 JianHao Tan -video
choice _2 Sean Burke - VIDEO
choice _3 Spencer - VIDEO
A. 'Look Up' - by G. Turk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY
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LOOK UP
Look Up. I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me. The problem I have sits in the spaces between, looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen. I took a step back, and opened my eyes, I looked around, and then realised that this media we call social, is anything but when we open our computers, and it’s our doors we shut. All this technology we have, it’s just an illusion, of community, companionship, a sense of inclusion yet when you step away from this device of delusion, you awaken to see, a world of confusion. A world where we’re slaves to the technology we mastered, where our information gets sold by some rich greedy bastard. A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion, where we share all our best bits, but leave out the emotion. We are at our most happy with an experience we share, but is it the same if no one is there. Be there for you friends, and they’ll be there too, but no one will be, if a group message will do. We edit and exaggerate, we crave adulation, we pretend we don’t notice the social isolation. We put our words into order, until our lives are glistening, we don’t even know if anyone is listening. Being alone isn’t the problem, let me just emphasize, that if you read a book, paint a picture, or do some exercise, you are being productive, and present, not reserved or recluse, you’re being awake and attentive, and putting your time to good use. So when you’re in public, and you start to feel alone, put your hands behind your head, and step away from the phone. You don’t need to stare at your menu, or at your contact list, just talk to one another, and learn to co-exist. I can’t stand to hear the silence, of a busy commuter train, when no one wants to talk through the fear of looking insane. We’re becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies to engage with one another, and look into someone’s eyes. We’re surrounded by children, who since they were born, watch us living like robots, and think it’s the norm. It’s not very likely you will make world’s greatest dad, if you cant entertain a child without a using an iPad. When I was a child, I would never be home, I’d be out with my friends, on our bikes we would roam. We’d ware holes in our trainers, and graze up our knees; we’d build our own clubhouse, high up in the trees. Now the parks are so quiet, it gives me a chill to see no children outside and the swings hanging still. There’s no skipping or hopscotch, no church and no steeple, we’re a generation of idiots, smart phones and dumb people. So look up from your phone, shut down that display, take in your surroundings, and make the most of today. Just one real connection is all it can take, to show you the difference that being there can make. Be there in the moment, when she gives you the look, that you remember forever, as when love overtook. The time you first hold her hand, or first kiss her lips, the time you first disagree, but still love her to bits. The time you don’t need to tell hundreds, about what you’ve just done, because you want to share the moment, with just this one. The time you sell your computer, so you can buy a ring, for the girl of your dreams, who is now the real thing. The time you want to start a family, and the moment when, you first hold your baby girl, and get to fall in love again. The time she keeps you up at night, and all you want is rest, and the time you wipe away the tears, as your baby flees the nest. The time your little girl returns, with a boy for you to hold, and the day he calls you granddad, and makes you feel real old The time you take in all you’ve made, just by giving life attention, and how your glad you didn’t waste it, by looking down at some invention. The time you hold your wife’s hand, and sit down beside her bed you tell her that you love her, and lay a kiss upon her head. She then whispers to you quietly, as her heart gives a final beat, that she’s lucky she got stopped, by that lost boy in the street. But none of these times ever happened, you never had any of this, When you’re too busy looking down, you don’t see the chances you miss. So look up from your phone, shut down those displays, we have a finite existence, a set number of days. Why waste all our time getting caught in the net, as when the end comes, nothing’s worse than regret. I am guilty too, of being part of this machine, this digital world, where we are heard but not seen. Where we type and don’t talk, where we read as we chat, where we spend hours together, without making eye contact. Don’t give in to a life where you follow the hype, give people your love, don’t give them your like. Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined Go out into the world, leave distractions behind. Look up from your phone, shut down that display, stop watching this video, live life the real way.
B. Look Down ('Look Up' Parody)
choice _1 JianHao Tan -video
choice _2 Sean Burke - VIDEO
choice _3 Spencer - VIDEO
4 comments:
Nice video, it makes you reflect, but actually, who knows if it's better to miss the girl on the crossroad or not?
does really live must necessarily be meeting a blond girl, buy a house and have a couple of kids? as movies, series and youtube videos are trying to teach us?
Both brilliant and witty, I loved the pace, the music, and the message. thank u Miquel Angel, So look up from your phone, shut down those displays, we have a finite existence, a set number of days.
Marc P.
Current and controversial topic. Thanks for suggesting that task. i enjoyed watching the Loop up video and the Look down parodies too!
The controversy between Gary's video and JianHao's one is clearly obvious and to give a thought on it. A part from being stupidly sarcastic, we can laugh with Jian's video due to the extremist point of view it shows. Anyway, its a good strategy to make us open or eyes because, actually, we aren't that far from the reality.
As regards Gary's video is so emotional, trying to get our human principles and to figure out what's happening arround us and society. I must add that the music and the filmed sequencies are very good chosen, making you to pay attention on every word and movement the actors do.
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