trees are people too

Claustrophobic?

My attention was drawn today to this amazing story. In 1999, Nicholas White was inadvertently (actually, when would it ever be otherwise) trapped in an elevator for forty hours. Oh the agony. Surely half of the world’s worst nightmare. Certainly mine.

More interesting is the video that captured the whole thing. Not only is this video fascinating to watch (I admit the music helps), but it is also presented in a rhizome format with the four recordings all playing simultaneously. I know this is a pretty abstract parallel I am drawing, but it is interesting to note how the action in all four screens contributes to the overall viewing experience. It’s quite surreal. It also contains some elements of the lumiere – fixed camera, constant with no edits. If you removed the music, the speeding up and cut it at 60 seconds, voila!

Ok, fine. It’s just hella interesting, ya?