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September 6, 2004

surely the world is full of ghosts

When I can’t fall asleep my mind always play the same trick, a rooten habit from I don’t remember when that has since become a reflex – when I want to find sleep, I always picture a book that I’m closing. Some people advised me to picture a grain of rice, getting smaller and smaller, then backwards. A wiser friend told me to not go to sleep unless I am tired. Yet this isn’t always practical, nor what I want really.

Another thing I used to do is make imaginary music videos. Or imagine myself leading educational sequences, documenting random little things. This similar technique was mainly done not at bedtime, but in moments of boredom, mainly in the bus, or waiting for someone or something to start. Anyway, it might just be described as dreaming awake.

I have no doubt that within my lifetime, brain monitoring technology will be advanced enough to map out in images the brain activity during sleep, and perhaps even to graphically recreate the memories of an awake subject. I find this much more exciting than any promises of weekend trips to the moon, or personal jetpacks.

Well, I don’t know why I went on this tangent..! My holiday weekend was quite relaxing and warm, and though I didn’t spent Labour Day in New York, I went to see another great show by Electrelane, finished reading a book, and digitalized old family Super-8 movies to make music videos in iMovie. They are a pain to edit on my old G3, but I keep thinking of new ones I want to make or songs to use. I made small web versions of my first two, here and here if anyone wants to look, but they don’t seem to work very well unless you have Quicktime 6, and even then. But if it does work, please stay tuned. Next on iMovie theatre, a dynamic bioepic of Chomi the cat!

Posted by nathalie at September 6, 2004 7:29 PM

Comments

you have a gift! that’s way better than the actual video for that moose song.

Posted by: chris on September 6, 2004 7:47 PM

thank you:) :) i have never seen the moose video for that song… could you digitalize it for me? (here is the secret lofi technique i used; play the movie on tv and film them using my digital camera)

Posted by: nathalie on September 6, 2004 7:59 PM

heh, like when i was a kid and i recorded songs i liked off the radio by holding a tape recorder near the speaker. genius!

Posted by: chris on September 6, 2004 9:02 PM

so beautiful!

(hello, stranger!)

xx
kate

Posted by: pooka on September 13, 2004 1:04 AM

pook pook - my heart goes boom! glad to see you around… xx

Posted by: nathalie on September 13, 2004 9:17 AM