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In the back of my mind for a while i have been thinking about a phone call i witnessed.
YES IT WAS ON A BUS. "i'm on the bus"
I girl was talking to a friend about another friend who had died. The conversation lapsed between descriptions of the girls life, her illness, and how she died; as well as descriptions of where we were on the bus, how long it would take her to arrive, and other random comments about the day. I suppose it was a natural conversation. Only the whole bus played witness to her thoughts and emotions as she described them to a someone unknown to us.
And the other day i saw a cheesey advert, that used the old split screen effect, to illustrate a phone call.
I like the CRASS feeling of split screen, as method of rendering simulanteous action, and interaction across (...urgh i hate these words put together..) SPACE AND TIME.
I found an article, which briefly runs through some examples of split screen genius as it develops at: http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/12/24/the-aesthetics-of-displays-how-the-split-screen-remediates-other-media-%e2%80%93-malte-hagener/
So please take a moment to pay your respect to
SPLIT SCREEN in all its glory.
I could go on forever/
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