Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg)

Yelp is a sneak peek at some of the material we're exploring in Connected - a feature film in production that looks at what it means to be human in the 21st century. Subscribe to our Channel and check out the trailer for Connected.

While we were busy working on Connected, we heard about National Day of Unplugging and thought, we must partake. We wrote Yelp, based on Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
The images and animations are culled from Connected, which will by completed by the end of 2010

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[andresyoda]

@JenMayHug

this song it is carmina burana of Carl off

[andresyoda]

From Colombia

it is a excellent video, you are right , we live in a infoesphere , i forget the real world

Desde Colomiba, es una excelente video, tienes razon , vivimos en una infoesfera, y olvidamos el mundo real

[ensignz]

Wow this is a great vid

[Arm4g3dd0nX]

I'm glad it does not. But I have coworkers that are exactly that way. It's depressing to see. It's like the highlight of their life... is work. O_o

[wildshovel]

Your argument that people who "do not frequently use the internet find themselves either watching reruns on television" or "reading the same mediocre books they already have" is overstated.

With possible exception of a shut-in lacking access to both a tv remote control and library card, it is difficult to imagine anyone who's choices in life are that severely limited.

(Yikes, I do hope this doesn't describe your situation. If it does, then please accept my sincerest apologies.)

[Arm4g3dd0nX]

So your argument is that the occasional period of time without using the internet leads to a more enriching set of events.

I do not feel that that can be said on average, however. People that do not frequently use the internet, find themselves watching reruns on television. People that are adverse to electronic entertainment, find themselves reading the same mediocre books they already have.

I argue that any form of "entertainment" can become an escape rather than a moment of living.

[JenMayHug]

whats this song?

[voiceovervoice]

well, to put it kriptikally, but simply:

ese!! eh, eh . . . la tecnologia,

chupa LO GRANDE!

quite simply!

[wildshovel]

@ishikawa92, @ Arm4g3dd0nX - I think the big problem is opportunity cost.

On your deathbed, with just minutes left to live, will you be thinking "gosh, if had only spent more time online"?

I unplugged for the suggested 24 hours. It was surprisingly difficult. That said, I got my butt outside, exercised, got some chores done, and later got up with friends at a local music club. Next day, finished composing a song, and then called a bunch of family that I haven't talked to in a while.

[ropesack]

excellent work.  this is why im not on facebook.