Mallory and I have reached our first checkpoint in the Oh What War video system development. To the anachronistic surveillance system, I have added the following features:

-Detritus selector: This is a jpg player that inserts 'detritus' jpgs (pre-selected war themed paraphernalia; and sometimes not*) into the inter channel distortion. The idea is that like a 'radio tooth' our system is picking up some not-necessarily-random static. The selectors flash each detritus image for 1/10th of a second- however the detritus (when it is on) lasts for a full second- so while you might not be able to name/recognize/remember all the images (they appear on top of a wobbly scramble) you certainly realize that you saw something. Not like we need any more subliminal garbage!

HOWEVER I read somewhere recently that narcissists are more likely to read meaning into random symbols in their lives... Is our system a narcissist? (Just like mommy?) Before we get totally way off course- I am just injecting the words from the script as images in the interstices. There are: tanks, scribbles, sausages, rib cages... sometimes thematically: severed arms, severed heads, severed legs, severed torsos. And then linguistically (homo-nyms/phones) a spade, a spade, a spade... an idea stolen from more than one poet.

Since there are so many landscapes in the monitors/ afterall, the system is keeping an eye on the landscapes in the four directions, therefore there must be an instrument for digging into them.

stay tuned to hear about the unfortunate

-Singing/talking faceless man: our World War I pacman

Zbigniew