The Overwhelming Simulacrum of Disney World

For clarification, please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra

The Overwhelming Simulacra of Disney World, or at least an attempt at handling it.

Shot and edited by Ryan Murphy
A 2010 Rojhelio Studios Production.

On a side note, I really liked Disney World, but anything built on a foundation of overwhelming reproduced symbols is pretty damn frightening when/if you think about it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ryan Murphy
• winnie the pooh
• piglet
• epcot
• simulacra
• simulation
• duck
• bird
• Germany
• Gaston
• tower of terror
• twilight zone
• puppets
• surreal
• absurd

[hunterx11]

Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the "real" country, all of America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carcereal). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation.

[Vicious516]

@hunterx11 I am more than a little happy that someone posted a real (and PLEASE don't hold me to that word [real], I'm just trying to be polite and/or accurate) response comment to this video.

[nostalgicnineties]

I hope this question is not too unrelated to what you wanted to show us but is this someone I know from your videos in the lower left corner? Patrick Ryan?

[Vicious516]

@nostalgicnineties Yes, yes it is.

[Tribar42]

Your work is becoming less surreal and more abstract. Not sure how I feel about that.

[Vicious516]

@Tribar42 I'm just glad that someone else noticed

[JubJubtheWonderHippo]

I spent the whole video looking for the horse man...

[fudgyboo7687]

That pigglet will haunt me for ever...



[sketchyaardvark]

I felt like I was about to have a panic attack watching this video o.O

[mario0318]

I wonder if Piglet praises Pig Day 

[Awesomeguy11WTF]

@hunterx11 lol, Disneyland is in Anaheim. As in Orange County, not LA County.

[Regginyaga]

abstract bad surreal good

[lusteraliaszero]

@hunterx11 isn't that the general idea of a simulacrum?

[Tinymoezzy]

@Vicious516 We all noticed... all that have been following you since the days of "craft store:"... i for one enjoy your observational and abstract productions that you have been coming out with as of late.  Granted surreal will hold my heart, your abstract holds my attention.

[Brightfur10]

I see.

[lilteddymouse]

...Baudrillard?

[Pikajane]

this is one of those videos that would end the same way that Neil's youtube trophy fondling video did