Video scrapbook
2017-presentUncategorized shorts, video mashups, and timelapses.
colonizers colonizing colonists
2020
Mushrooms grow out of colonist and plant thief Robert Fortune’s eyes. The sounds include pings recorded by a Mars rover.
This is the best one
2020
2020
Change from the inside
2020
2020
Jewel at Playa Vista
2020
2020
Sound from a local news tour of an apartment in a luxury housing complex in Silicon Beach, the tech hub of Los Angeles.
25000 Plants
2020
2020
Footage from a local news tour of Amazon’s biosphere/office complex in Seattle.
They were shipped in wood and glass cases
2020
2020
This video uses archival imagery of Western botanists and a timelapse of a plant cutting I removed from my workplace. The juxtoposition of these two elements links contemporary workplace aesthetics to the history of colonialism.
Starting in the mid-1800s with the creation of the Wardian Case, a glass and wood box similar to a terrarium, British (and other) colonists began shipping plants to, from, and between their colonies in greater numbers. The Wardian Case allowed colonists to establish rubber plants, which are native to South America, in India, smuggle tea plants out of China, and cultivate Cinchona plants (from which quinine, an anti-malarial drug, is derived), which aided the European colonization of Africa.
Most of the indoor plants we grow today, including office plants, are native to the tropics and were first brought to Europe and North America during the colonial period. And, just as the indoor plants cultivated by Victorian-era Europeans were not merely decorative but used as signifiers of wealth and class, office plants today serve multiple purposes. Employers install them to signal the success and desirability of their company, and to increase worker productivity.
Starting in the mid-1800s with the creation of the Wardian Case, a glass and wood box similar to a terrarium, British (and other) colonists began shipping plants to, from, and between their colonies in greater numbers. The Wardian Case allowed colonists to establish rubber plants, which are native to South America, in India, smuggle tea plants out of China, and cultivate Cinchona plants (from which quinine, an anti-malarial drug, is derived), which aided the European colonization of Africa.
Most of the indoor plants we grow today, including office plants, are native to the tropics and were first brought to Europe and North America during the colonial period. And, just as the indoor plants cultivated by Victorian-era Europeans were not merely decorative but used as signifiers of wealth and class, office plants today serve multiple purposes. Employers install them to signal the success and desirability of their company, and to increase worker productivity.
Citadel orgasm
2019
2019
Citadel Orgasm was created by splicing together a marketing video from a data center in Nevada with videos of white men orgasming from a erotic website, beautifulagony.com.
Originally meant as a satirical examination the largely white male tech industry obsession with describing corporate tech interests in terms of socially liberal values, the video is also a reflection on the relationship between big tech and art.
The video is only available via direct distribution - physical handoff or a direct link to a file sharing service - as it is banned from sites such as Vimeo and YouTube because it does not pass a content screening algorithm.
Magnolia
2020
2020
Timelapse of a Magnolia seed pod.
The most full I’ve ever been livestream performance
2019
2019
The most full I’ve ever been
2018
2018
This video is normally presented on loop inside the Teeth TV.