progress on the animation
so i’ve been working with imovie which actually has not been as bad as i thought! im glad i chose this route as opposed to photoshop. anyway, i chose music for my animation after much debate over whether dave matthews was too cliche or not. the song i chose ties in fairly well with my theme of the temporality of this life and what comes after. it’s called “dodo”… and here are some lyrics to think about.
Once upon a time
When the world was just a pancake
Fears would arise
That if you went too far you’d fall
But with the passage of time
It all became more of a ball.
We’re as sure of that
As we all once were when the world was flat
So I wonder this
As life billows smoke inside my head
This little game where nothing is sure, oh
Why would you play by the rules?
Who did, you did, you
Who did, you did, you
When was she killed
The very last dodo bird
And was she aware
She was the very last one
yes… i did lyrics.com that one, but either way i thought the concept of the last dodo bird tied in well with the quote i am writing some of in the sand during the stop motion film: the dodo’s life was but a series of details, and nothing significant, until she died and her species became extinct. this had far-reaching effects on the world surrounding the dodo, and also our world today (most of which we will never know). it also made me wonder about heaven and hell in relation to the dodo, since i am really looking for more abstract connections to this theme. i wonder what it would be like to be the last of a kind on the planet- heaven or hell? adam and eve were 2 of a kind and in heaven without the rest of mankind. i also wanted to imagine what heaven and hell are like (as we tend to do) if they exist, and i realized that something we all have in common as a race is that we will never be sure, which is another thing that dave’s song “dodo” talks about- the certainty of being unsure in this life. he speaks of life as “this little game where nothing is sure”, and i extend that to ascending or descending post game to heaven or hell.