they hit me with a truck

This character is the originator of the line "they hit me with a truck." Simply for your edification.... I won't explore what this says about my own psychological make-up.

 I found this video interesting for its visual properties, and I also thought it worthwhile to consider the idea of watching a video and understanding the action without necessarily being able to understand the language (I speak Spanish, so I somewhat understand it, but not everyone will without subtitles). Also, since no two languages share the same cultural context or idiomatic expressions, what do we lose in the process of translation and how does that affect video art (or any art, really) when it crosses international and cultural borders.

I was just thinking recently about our class conversation in video art, considering the proliferation of technology in our lives and the increasing intersection of the media with our everyday existence.  During our discussion in the classroom, I agreed with the technological influence in theory, but as someone stuck in the backwoods and mostly isolated from the worlds of myspace and facebook, I felt perhaps detached from the idea itself.  That is, until yesterday. 

On the aforementioned day, I discovered that my little brother (who is 14 and constantly online on myspace and AIM) had gone to the movies with some friends.  Apparently, some guy felt my brother was “putting the moves” on his girlfriend and he was going to do something about it.  At the theater, this guy attacked my brother and punched him in the head, pushing him into a metal rail and giving him a concussion.  What does this have to do with anything, you ask? Well, apparently someone found this confrontation highly amusing, so they recorded it and it now resides somewhere on myspace.