Classmate Response 2, Week 7

Improv/Imitation Entry 1 (Week 7)

This is an improv off the concept that Katie Chaple used, the concept of taking something in the news and using it as a triggering subject: I read an article today about some sort of video taken by an iPhone of the Mayan pyramid which showed a light beam coming from the top.

End of Days

A photo taken in seconds.
The quick click click captures
our end of days.
The stream of light emblazoned
in the memory of the iPhone 4.
Can the mesmerizing glitch symbolize our doom?

Now, photoshop dissects,
studies each pixel and the saturation sensor
wondering if their never failing software failed.
Meanwhile, the human race paces,
on the edge of their pyramids,
waiting to tumble off the edge
and watch ruins emerge from the lightbeams of Heaven.



Response:
What a cool piece!
"A photo taken in seconds" - how many things happen quickly, without serious thought, that nowadays becomes viral or vitally important. I like the "emblazoned light memorializing the iPhone 4." This part makes me feel like there could be something happening here with serious undertones but it all seems a little silly when your proof comes in the form of an iPhone.

Then you have people studying these images like Jesus burns on toast, trying to use math and statistics to determine reality - when the reality they should be focusing on goes unattended.

My favorite line is "Meanwhile the human race paces,/on the edge of their pyramids,/waiting to tumble off the edge/and watch ruins emerge from the lightbeams of Heaven."

For some reason this reminds me of the Meat Puppets song Plateau...