Detour I
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  • really love you dreamlike videos, very inspiring

  • Very trippy. I like this. Music match this video,too.

  • Your videos continue to leave me hanging in the balance~ between a place of seen and unseen, scene and un-scene, a here and there to a place where i can choose what i see and do not see, can choose to look away, choose to avoid or i can choose to accept, to participate in life to look to join in to be

  • I like !!!!!Congratulations!!!

    

  • I really like the experimental ideas in this. It's quite uncomfortable to watch, however that's part of its strength and also weakness, I couldn't watch the whole thing. even so well done:-)

  • Hi there. Cool video. Do you work off a master tape? We are getting ready to edit 10 hours of video for a 2 hour rock n roll set of music. So we are picking a master to work off of in Final Cut. We like your work man. Maybe we could collaborate on a song called Meth. It is 6 minutes long and it's really fast and intense rock. Let us know if you would like to collaborate. Peace, Rosie at RXR Studio

  • more power nice compliments

  • cool :))

  • Bravo!

  • nice video 5 stars

  • I like this. Looks good.

  • niceeeee

  • Mike, this is a superb video

  • WOW!  BEAUTIFUL...

  • Olá Mikecelona,só hoje pude responder ao seu vídeo.Na minha opinião,acho que a mensagem subliminar só é valida quando é utilizada para ajudar alúém;se for com a finalidade de fazer uma prisão mental,isso não concordo.Seu vídeo está ótimo,cada dia que passa vc se supera.Gostei por vc levantar um questionamento sobre esse assunto que passa pelas nossas vidas todos os dias.Um abraço.

  • Reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi

  • amazing work mate, cheers from Greece

    both thumbs up

  • wow!!!

  • NIce trip +_+

  • great.

    great visual overload :D

    music fits well ^^

  • Nice work!

  • nice man that was intense and brilliant. any chance you could msg me about the scalar array?

  • Fascinating. 

  • quite the detour -lol

    5 star

  • I also enjoyed the musical composition...... it's yours too ?

  • Very strange technique of editing but all in all it was pretty interesting.

  • awesome

  • Interesting.

  • Mike this is a special video.

    I need to back again.

    I loved it

    Wish you a lovely weekend.

    Maria

  • I took a trip without leaving my chair. Thanks for the ride.

  • nice work

  • Woah, my brain is having some complications processing this much photography onto the scanus of the brain. Ugh

  • Nice vid. Mike, but I felt it needed a climax, in a still frame or frames!

  • It is mesmerizing. Not surew what it means yet but fascinating.

  • where's my girlfriend!!!?????

  • Loved this video, Mike. The focus on certain key images - like the Warning and Exit signs, the horizon line, the dentist or doctor's chair, the tangles of wiring, and boxwood garden sculpture - gave the viewer great cues for meaning and storyline. Was the detour off the road or was it back to the Garden and away from technology and modernism? Those were my first impressions and I look forward to viewing it several times. Well done.

  • this is a video that demands watching many times...it would be fair to say you don't see all of it in one sitting...the mind does....but recall would be difficult....I really enjoyed this....I had a feeling of impending danger....then speed with rapid eye is seemingly a normal reaction....I tried blinking during this a few times and this can sometimes slow things down.....anyway top marks!

  • NASA is doing this since the 70's, in their radio signals transmitted into deep space :-)

  • This reminded me of a drug induced psychotic episode I suffered in the 1970s--a real nightmare. Quick cutting isn't necessary for subliminal suggestion. Print media does it all the time. But perhaps there's room for even more suggestion in this type of A/V work. It was definately hypnotic, and I'm having after-images. Now I'm thinking about pixalation experiments from the 1960s, and that famous sex scene from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Do another one of these with people or abstractions.

  • watched it once with the sound on and once with it off. two entirely different exeriences.

    the sound makes me feel much more uneasy juxtiposed with the images. in addition it is much easier to see individual frames w/out the sound. I noticed more alarming images with the sound off. the signs and phones etc. interesting experiment. as far as moral and ethical implications the powers that be will use anything and everything they can to condition whomever they can for their purposes.

  • Dude! Too much coffee!

  • Not sure if I should now move to Montana or stab the person next to me in the neck.

  • I watch to much true tv lol. I thought this was the mind of a person who had killed some one and we were seeing memory. First the car seen ie the stoking, then the the construction site were the body was hidden and discovered then the electric chair and finally the body of those still undiscovered. So I saw in this a serial killer.

  • ok, after seeing this, I close my eyes and the first thing I see is a white room with a window.

  • Great Vid!

    May be you already know him but you should check out the work of Stan Brakhage. The PRELUDE to DOG STAR MAN is excelent.

  • Great Vid!

    May be you already know him but you should check out the work of Stan Brakhage. The PRELUDE to DOG STAR MAN is excelent.

  • Interesting, what I saw was a progressive story with a handful of possibilities. I find my self trying to create a picture of each scene and put the fragments together to form a reasonable hypothesis to what has occurred, but without a "ending"or incident to back up from, I feel I am only throwing aimless ideas out into space. This would be a good training aid for law enforcement, detectives, intelligence and military; learning the art of observation. so what message was planted in my brain?

  • how many frames?

  • very good work ....  *****

  • ..`such is a life of a man who talks alot to himself asking and analysing everything around him when ever he gets the chance to be by himself:)..who he has a girl friend that he doesnt want to be married to because she is "doing it" with him without being married before god with him..and he doesnt know how he can get rid of her as soon as he figures that out before it is too ate:)..especialy that he met her over a drink and he was saying to himself the next morning OMG:))..and the girl is wining

  • Appreciate the amount of work that went into this video. But all a bit much for me, I like life in the slow lane !

  • cool idea... but perhaps a bit slower on some cuts... when it's going so fast at light speed the brain barely has time to recognize one image before another 10 are presented... The occasions where it slows down enough for decent recognition had much more impact... maybe you could mix it up more... some fast, some slow... interspersed.

  • Sorry didn't do nothin for me

  • Awesome Video !

  • My interpretation- a man is traveling, or in a small town, he starts drinking and driving, along the road he comes across a field, where people are dumping hazardous material, he is taken by force to a building, where he is subjected to experients, the people in the square, like mice in a maze, later he is in a convalescence home of some kind, wandering and lost.

  • hypnotic!

  • bello!

  • Interesting. Though I think it's a little overwhelming.

  • nice

  • Interesting idea though a little too fast in my opinion. Would have been nice to see some clips played in normal time and then skipping around to different parts rather than fast, flickering images. It's cool though.

  • I thought the beginning was trying to send a message about texting and driving, lol. But I agree with a former comment...epileptics should be warned, as this definitely has a strobe effect going on. Great editing but hard to watch after about 2 minutes!

  • !!!!COOL!!!! :)

  • great job, interesting... but i think it's too long

  • The video is not for epileptics,nice!

  • Who's in the trunk?

  • hmm. the video started out good I was actually enjoying it, but then it git bad then annoying

  • delirium tremens - - - I like this vid ! God job ;-)

  • Good Job ! Conditioning for future direct neural data transfer technologies, sounds scary ! Who will use it? Who already does?

    It reminded me of dreaming, after a night of heavy drinking. The alcohol disrupts the thought process, and only leaves you with fragmented pics and sound. The next day you say "What the hell was that all about?"

  • The lights are making me dizzy, but good video though:)D Must've been alot of editing:)

  • This is a brilliant piece...we won't necessarily know what being subjected to this kind of thing is doing to us.

  • Wow..it's strange. It's like you downloaded something in my brain, and my brain is strugling to understand it. I got dizzy. Really dizzy. I'll keep my comments updated as the day passes and my brain understands what entered it.

  • Crazy....reminds a littl bit of Madonna's videoclip RAY OF LIGHT...

    I got a little bit dizzy too...

  • Or falling down when drunk while playing a video game.

  • I feel like going to passout now (Not because it was boring lol). It's like a total mind fuck, my brain is overwheled at the moment. Like the feeling after an adrenaline rush, or playing a video game for 24hrs straight.

  • it reminds me that life is made of lots of moments, following one to another.

    When i see it, is like everything that is important now, is somehow allready in the past, just because i see how fast the moments we call /time/ are passing.

    Its like watching old letters or pictures from strangers, that dont carry anymore the same feelings like they did for those of who belong to.

    The spectator of life.

    the spectator of your own life.

    so weird, to watch life from outside.

  • My brain said, sequential, as in the first "picture" leads to the next and on and on. As I watched, I perceived sequential. There were moments when it didn't seem that way, but they were too far apart. At 1.28 a lack of sequencialness faded, and the idea of seeing what was in my mind surfaceed, but that mental state returned to sequential. I think this experiment works better if the images are random, and the tempo of image appearances is random as well.

  • Good vid congrats!!

  • cool, thx for the advice...

  • Cool and trippy! Nice work =)

  • nice

  • For me, it was like a superfast holiday slide-show.

    I wish they could all be like that!

  • very hip

  • this is a great time lapse, love it!

  • That looks like a lot of editing work - great job!

  • Mind Blowing...Well Done

  • well done

  • Fatastic.. thxx.

  • ths is really cool. have u thought 2 start out vry slow to then speed w/musiK. seems what u had in mind, just slw a bit more in intro-betwn for efKt. great worK tho! ;D!

  • muito bom

  • everyday is yesterday's tomorrow.

    well, you've shown that brilliantly.

  • it like subliminal message.. it like force your brain to snap it (image) and keep in our subconscious mind..

  • " If you're in a hurry, just do a detour..."

    " Si tu es pressé, fais un détour..."

    ( Anonyme japanese )

    "..."

  • great, I love it

  • nice bro .. thats some nice job right ?

  • Amazing idea. If this night I dream about car, storm or electricity I'll tell you

  • Very nice concept and luv the way you described it! Seems like a headache inducing trance until you get the explanation for what it is and can relate exactly like one would do in trying to recall a certain event as a visual in your mind's eye.

    Also, indeed with today's technology, not only can people take videos as a diary of lives on a daily basis (supposedly a technology for the future but available today), but as described here this can usher an era of free-association. Like!

  • THNX

  • Sorry, can't watch. makes me a bit dizzy and sick to my stomach. I admire the concept, though.

  • Great video !!!=)

  • thumbs up. ^^

  • Well done!

    Thanks!

    Hugs

    Susana

  • This film is a post-industrialist journey into the mindscape of a driven filmmaker. The impression I got from this experimental film is based on my own subconscious reaction. I call it Subconscious Filmmaking, where the viewer provides meaning to the images and cannot expect the filmmaker to dictate the meaning, except to provide a bed of images to stimulate and direct. Excellent!

  • This film is a post-industrialist journey into the mindscape of a driven filmmaker. The impression I got from this experimental film is based on my own subconscious reaction. I call it Subconscious Filmmaking, where the viewer provides meaning to the images and cannot expect the filmmaker to dictate the meaning, except to provide a bed of images to stimulate and direct. Excellent!

  • Wonderful synthesis of picture and sound! Oddly familiar. Perhaps archetypal. Reminds me of other jump cut montages I've seen.

  • Interesting confused status

  • Very unique and different video...I regret that the speed was so fast so I could not see the photos well...Smiles...Thank you:)~Zuzanna

  • This is great! I love the way that it relates to the lightning fast speed at which memories are digested and recalled. It truly has a flashback feel to it. I did catch an image of someone standing in front of a mirror with a camera, I would suggest to remove that because it breaks a sort of code that you are seeing with your own eyes, taking you out of the first person by revealing the author. Anyway it's awesome, it has a mysterious haunting quality.

  • Fascinating, Very much like a dream sequence as another has mentioned.The repetition of the sculpture in the garden was a retained memory for me. I think that the same type of device was used in the film Inception (did anyone really understand what that was all about ?).

  • i find myself being drawn to the screen. i gaze intently seeing through the imagery finding a depth i've rarely experienced in this genre..tis much beyond..congrats..excellent concept..i'm inspired

    thank you

  • Such is life.

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  • Oh, what a good flow... seemless motion, great job!

  • Very interesting result! Congrats for the edition, the images and the rythm....well done. The sound is amazing.

  • Muy buen video, me gusta que retomes con diferentes tipos de contrastes y colores diferentes recuerdos, eso a nivel del pensamiento y comprobado por la PNL es un hecho comprobable, pienso yo que ese detalle le da mas fidelidad a tu proyecto.

  • scrubba dub.

  • nice one!!!

  • Cool vid man! Not sure what to make of it yet.. what feelings are you trying to evoke by it?

  • I am not going driving with you!!!!!!  Nice clip.

    Dave Hart

  • enjoy ur work...

  • Keep working.

  • Cool video , must of taken a hell of a time to do all these edits : )

  • Kind of freaky but very cool. Good Job.

  • Cool...

    Good..

    ^^

  • I loved it Mike! Which equipment you used?

    Cheers!

    CG

  • Very cool and innovated, as usual!

  • The result couldn't be better . Excellent.

  • Cool! This brings to mind the Beatles " A Day in the Life" :-)

    .woke up.....got outta bed......dragged the comb across my head.......

  • love this . real good

  • Fantastic experiment here! Thumbs Up!!!

  • This is a great experience. The audio is a great match as well, definitely brings the element of dream and focus on your own thoughts in attempt to comprehend. If you get a moment, check out an animation I spent a lot of time on which attempts to also bring the 'dream' experience to your waking life. Very different from your project, all my images flow fluidly into each other and constantly change rather than flash. Search "micr0rbs in REM" on youtube, thats a zero not a O in micr0rbs. Thanks!

  • very strange, but really comfortable watchable result. good results, work. keep good work!

  • The fast edits cause an almost physical pain to me and I refuse to sit through them. I could only watch the first few seconds before scrolling the video out of view. So I guess I instinctively rebel against attempts at this sort of visual programing. Oddly enough, I like the soundtrack. It has the same quick jerky pace but doesn't seem to pull my mind in a thousand directions at once.

  • This is a useful technique, quite interesting and well executed, very visceral experience, and reminds me of the cut-up poetry set, the fragmentation lets the mind wander...

  • i like the progression and timing, pretty expert. i must say, very impressive, although im not sure why,,,

    thanks for sending me this vdeo

  • I just had a seizure

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  • It made me cry my eyes out.

  • Cool editing, love the song too

  • cool vid!

  • I liked this experiment a lot and was quite aware you were playing with my mind :) I kept wanting some of the footage to remain on the screen longer, because I found it calming to look at , while in the middle of all the quick visual flashes of pictures. These were the images I found calming: the sunset part, the yellow light on the ceiling and the stone statue of a girl. ~

  • great video!

  • Mike excellent job! Reminds me like Philip Glass...

  • could have been shorter in length. still like it though.

  • that was good i liked it 

  • Interesting piece Mike. I believe this is exactly the way our dreams are, but we "remember" them differently, once our conscience process them.

  • thanks for sharing kisses happy weekend

  • Hmm...just about to sleep, wonder what I'll dream. Was a story to me of escaping into the country...back to home, my thoughts..love it

  • brilliant work Mike. Inspirational stuff. Did you use some sort of max msp machine for the editing or do it the old fashioned way?

  • Interesting. Amazing. That's all - I don't want to discuss and share my own thoughts and feeling, however I do recognise this vid.'s merits.

  • i get the feeling of "driving home" when i watch this video.

    it reminded me of all the times i drove back from albuquerque to carlsbad and all the detours i would take along the way ...just to explore some place new.

  • Fantastic work here. I loved the images you chose to linger on or keep going back to. They broke the piece up nicely while establishing the setting, and making me feel like I knew where I was each time the movement progressed. Certainly made me feel deep in my gut and wonder what was around the corner. Almost as if hypnotized. I admire your attention to detail and balance of the whole on this time consuming project. Please keep up the great work! Thank you for sharing!

  • Hi Mike, I enjoyed the performance totally. I unfocused my eyes and shut off my mind and experienced having a dream while I was awake. And I usually don´t have music in my dreams either ;-) So I thank you! Eve

  • @~@ too awesome..my eyes~good music~

  • Hi Mike

    I know Ive already commented on this video but just wanted to say , High five, dont drink and drive, look out for the truck, take time to enjoy nature and take time to watch a sunset occasionally. LOL

    Great vid, so now

    Ryan

  • aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrhh My eyes hurt

  • Love it!!! Una verdadera inspiración!

  • My own memories are not linear but I like what the approach you're exploring.

  • cool  effects

  • I Like but is very urban...and i live in country...is difficult to understand!

    Thank you because you look of he worl...Living and listening!

    João

  • wow....strangely I felt like it was trying to pull me into a hypnotic state of some kind. The music was an interesting choice as well. My eyes and my brain felt like they were trying fiercely to catch every image....I was beginning to get a headache, yet couldnt make myself look away. I loved it!!

  • great

  • Very atmospheric and unsettling. Like someone trying to peice together a nightmare event or some splintered memory. Perfectly matched soundtrack.

  • the techniques of repetition and fast paced imagery really draws me into this film and evokes a feeling of familiarity, as though the environments portrayed are fragments of the viewers own distorted memory, which seems to be your theme for this work so well done :)

  • Really trippy! Thx.

  • muito legal!!!

  • Hi Mike, this is quite interesting. I watched this a few times and tried to find a story in the images ... and each time i come up with a different story?? Not sure if that was your intention but it was weirdly hypnotic. Certainly worth exploring further.

  • To me the whole video looked like a Dream/Flash back that one has, at the same time the flashback/dream is being disrupted by confusion.

    Meaning the Whole Video can relate to CONFUSION to the Subject matter.

    I never had trouble watching it...though i was expecting at the end the frame of someones EYE open (in Slow Motion), wake up and fade to black.

    SzB.

  • It seems to me to be a story about some guy who screwed up his marriage and all the jagoffish things he did to cause that.

  • I really liked this. The music is a good chocie, and I always love to see that there are more and more videos that are actually interesting and thought provoking done in 1080p

  • like a road trip I went on very dreamlike good work

  • I finally got round to watching this video. I made sure I watched the video before reading your explanation and your responses in order not to be influenced by your narrative. I felt like it seemed to describes what happens before and what happens after a car accident where a serious head trauma is inflicted. The fragments represent what the victim is trying to piece together.