Back again - Digital Media MA

So I've found this wierd and wonderful Youtube channel u m a m i. A channel full of surrealist animations, crudely animated and slightly disturbing, they don't really follow a specific narrative, exept a series they title "Interface". At this date there are 10 episodes, ranging between 2mins and 6mins. Here's the first episode:      Now the initial feeling of this series for me, was unsettling and a bit nonsensical, but its this nonsense feel that made me watch the rest. Because it's so surreal and sort of all over the place, I feel like its more open to interpration, giving a different viewer a different perception.

So we know my child Oculus. He has an eyeball for a head and an amazing sense of style; I've had a look into characters with objects fo heads. The first thing I looked into was the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, famous for his still life portraits. Then I took to the internet and found an artist named Andy Vible who, in 2012, created a series of sculptures of people with objects instead of heads. I'm trying to find significance in the "object-head", but it's suprisingly tricky to find things. It coul possibly allude to yanonimit, or lack of humanity.  Perhaps a represenation of one's deeper self. The ego. I will be looking into Freud's study on the ego, obvs. But for now I'd like to collect a series of interesting images and illustrations that I have found one the web. Lets dive in! A lot of the characters I found had mostly electronic devices like TVs and radios.   But also, understandibly, a lot of chracters...

I am in the first quarter of Waking Life, film made by Richard Linklater. So far it appears to be a young man's journey through different schools of thougt about the phylosophy of self and ego. It's almost as if he is intererviewing the people he interacts with, all of them giving him a different imput. What strikes the first cord howerver, is the aesthetic of the film, which is completley rotoscoped from footage to animation. Although visually stunning, I'm struggling to watch certain shots of the film, as almost every element of the backgoround moves; it gives me motion sickness. Never the less, I will soldier on and update this post when I finish the film. *Never updates again*