a picture speaks a thousand words. it freezes time momentarily, stops that particular frame, captures that certain moment, and stores within it some of the magic of that very special event. it is as if pictures are some sort of a object that can capture time itself, some receptacle of the one thing that has eluded Man's attempts to tame it since the dawn of time
in that case, a video must speak a thousand sentences. a single video is like thousands of pictures put together, capturing one exact period of the event itself, as if you are cutting and pasting into storage, so that you can bring this special captured fragment of time away with you to the future, a kidnapping of the past
as a nostaliga cure and an attempt to travel back to the past once more, has anyone ever tried to record every single moment of his life? from brushing teeth to going out to sleeping to saying unfunny jokes like mo bi to saying accidentally funny ones like rape of nanking, not a moment goes unrecorded, not a moment goes forgotten, every moment will be there for revisiting in the future; you can have your entire past life with you
however, although not a second went unrecorded, videos and other recording medium can never ever capture the very special element of Being Present. yes, you can watch your entire life all over again, but its totally different from living your life again. you can watch your wedding dinner and relive the magic of that night, but the feeling is different from being actually there; its the knowledge that you can actually do ANYTHING to make the night more special that makes it magical. what am i saying? means its what i can do thats gives it the sorcery; watching a video is only seeing what you already did.
means if you record your first sexual encounter; u can watch replay telecastts every night in an attempt to relive that feeling every single night, but the sure thing is the magic just will not feel right. cos in the past when you were really just having your first sexual encounter, its the "wow its my first. what can i do? what move? what maneuvure? vertical suplex or people's elbow?" its the Ifs and ICans and Howtorespondtothises that makes its magical, not the IDidThis and WatchMeDoMyStoneColdStunners
i dunno why im typing all these gugujiao, just on impulse tho. Impulse = F.t
| Thoughts Became Words At 11:25 PM |
