House Of Leaves

see the original version please go to:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=2918932 for now.


please read:


Yes it's supposed to be dark in the beginning give it time.

Design/photography: Jade Ricker/Dees
Music: P.O.E.

A video depicting my thoughts on the novel house of leaves:

After finishing this novel, and very much while reading through it, i felt like something in me had changed. I literally felt like the insides of my mind where opening up and starting to explore depths or my own reality that i never knew where there before.
Looking back at this video now it's so silly but for me at the time this was very personal.
You can say this book made me paranoid in a way?
I think the most major change for me this book brought on was an end to an almost 3 year relationship with a boyfriend at the time. I swear before reading this book everything was fine but then i really did begin to notice little things.
Could these things have appeared to me even though i wasn't reading this book at the time? I'll never know that answer. (and just to clarify he was cheating, that's what i finally figured out)
The original of this video, which is in a format that you tube doesn't allow, contained more images and different sequences then the one you see now. It even contained said boyfriend portraying a character. More than coincidence?
I still feel to this day the changes house of leaves left upon my soul and i don't think I'll ever shake the feeling it gave me. It's not necessarily a bad feeling, just a feeling that everything is more of a mystery than i may perceive it to be.
If you have any experiences with this novel that you would like to share please feel free to load the comments page up with them or send me a email :)

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• leaves
• p.o.e.

[packcollective]

Can you upload this elsewhere? I love it, but the audio's been disabled now.

[vanillapop]

it's on myspace video too if you search for it :)

[Nickyfartfart]

Hmmm, you have ripped the Red Sparowes logo around 3:05.

This isnt supposed to be entirely original work, right?

[vanillapop]

sorry i have no idea what the red sparrows are nor did i "rip them off". The images are brushes made from my own photos...the only things in the video that i did not create myself are of course some of the scans from the actual book.

[Astrobeej]

WMG strikes again. Assholes.

[VeGezus]

I read House of Leaves a few months ago.

The book caused me to have nightmares (sometimes just illusions while I'm stil lawake) of pale faced girls with wide, unblinking eyes and a wide grin showing all sharp teeth. The girl breathes slowly and stares right at me. I tried to talk to her, then she just leaves. A few nights ago I had a dream of a storm and a man pointing a gun at me. The dream caused me to have violent shakes, but not quite a seizure.

I blame the book. I love the book.

[IchimotoKun]

@VeGezus (I know this is late, but I don't care), Holy fuck, a few months ago some time after finishing the book, I had a dream of a dark hallway, at the end of which had a portrait of a pale girl that was somehow utterly disturbing in some way, making me wake up with a jolt after several minutes, and about 27 hours, I was almost complete unable to function and was rather hysteric and, well, crazy.

Probably just a coincidence, though.

[multiplecats]

Nice tribute! Shame the sound was muted. :( This book really does get into you. Not in a bad way (for me, at least). Some people find it quite frightening but I feel like deeper parts of me are being found. I find myself stopping to look a second time at things around me. I think of darkness differently. I caught on early what the story is actually about (I won't spoil) but I find it actually quite moving.

The book and the album are amazing on their own, but surprising and inspiring together.

[RandomPenguin922]

I'm reading this book now and I have anxiety disorder and it's tearing me apart but I can't stop reading. I can't not finish it. It's getting inside my head in ways I never imagined. I even found myself checking my house to make sure nothing changed after I went to visit my grandmother. This book is more than just a book. It's an exploration of something so indescribably that it take a seven hundred page book just to let you think you've glimpsed it. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

[RandomPenguin922]

@VeGezus I know how you feel. Or maybe I don't. I'm in the middle of reading the book and it's scaring the s*** out of me but I can't stop because I love it. I'm starting to blame things on it though- I was reading it when my grandma fell down and had to get stitches, I was reading it every night we stayed at her house except one and my dad had nightmares every night except that one. Oh, and I'm now afraid of echoes...

[vengeanceproductions]

@ZEPHANI

It's just that it has like five plots going on at once, so to everybody, a different story is unfolding.

Sorry for replying to a year old comment, BTW.

[Redchinesestones]

i can't say it changed me permanently

but it certainly brought back childhood fears of the darkness behind the back of my head. Even when i knew it was just the car seat, or open air, or the pillow and bed beneath. What this book does do really well, is that after while, you really do start forgetting which lines and words were the authors, and which ones were from other people, or even from yourself.

one day when i was reading it the night before, i woke up, half asleep saying his name

Johnny.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

mAd womAn

on Another tour

everything *she* is *she*

spits on the floor

An old mAn tells me *she's*

sicker thAn the rest

¡god i've never been

AfrAid like this. [I D☉N'T W𝈗NN𝈗 DIE]...

Also, I liked the video.

[thetwentyfourth]

To fight against people who use audio for non-commercial projects is to fight against the fans of the product you're trying to protect. Record companies, publishers, etc wonder why they're sinking ships and blame piracy, not realising that it probably has something to do with the fact that they're at war with their own customers. Screw 'em.