The person who shared this OK Go “This Too Shall Pass” music video with me wrote simply, “Someone learned his physics well.” As I watched the video — utterly entranced, wondering where I could get my hands on a few thousand dominoes — I had to agree.
Understanding physics certainly would be important for getting all these gadgets to go off just right, so perfectly. Clearly, this is for real, I was thinking. This is really happening in front of me. This is not a product of postproduction wizardry.
Maybe I was wrong about that, I realized. But then, it really didn’t matter.
The mechanical wonders in this video feel and so they are real. I believe in the magic of a magician who performs wonderfully, even though I know he is just performing a “trick.” The real trick, which is the magic, is that I feel and believe what I am seeing, regardless of what I might be thinking.
In relation to image making this relates to a critical concept: Authenticity. Continue reading “It’s About Authenticity, Not Reality”