Flog #11

Last week’s Hack was kind of hard. I generated a lot of ideas and tried every idea before I realized it wouldn’t work. For example, I initially planned to complete a remix of urban homelessness with Black Diamond of Peter Criss as the background music. I did gather the material to start production. About a minute into it, I realized that this might not be what I wanted to have for this hack. It’s not that I don’t like how I’ve done it, I actually feel fair and the song is good, but since it’s not a topic I really have inspiration in, I felt like I don’t know what to do next, which makes me feel very unmotivated. So I had to give up this half-finished project. The technical aspects of editing the video didn’t particularly bother me, what was really difficult was finding footage on the Internet that I was going to use. I’m glad I finally managed to find what I was looking for. The artist statement also left me a little confused. Compared with the previous hacks that are based on specific topics, the remix is more complex because the content expressed requires me to spend time sorting out my thoughts and the order of writing.