Who Controls Your Eyes Controls Your Mind

ImmersedOne

This is an audio segment from Timothy Leary's "How To Operate Your Brain," with my visual work done over it to correspond to his words, as well as to help stimulate certain thoughts and feelings to help you get the most out of it. This segment deals primarily with the importance of your eyes, and what they see, as well as how to use them. Who controls your eyes controls your mind, controls your reality. Our minds, and consequently our realities, are being formulated by establishment TV corporations, as well as political, religious, and educational authorities. We need to take control of our own eyes, our own brains, and our own realities. I intend to further learn audio/visual editing techniques, and continue making new and unique videos. I'd really appreciate it if you watch it and let me know what you think! :cool:

DaltheJigsaw

Awesome stuff!

shanyin

Interesting stuff. Have you heard of Vegas video editor?

ImmersedOne

Thank you Leon!

And no I have not, shanyin.

shanyin

Man this guy could handle his drugs eh? psshh

shanyin

thousands of LSD trips and hes a smart guy I take a couple and im a vege :P

ThailandTom

Having taken at least 100 drops of acid, I can say yes it is fun most of the time, yes it can be profound and lead to certain realizations, but it is all still an illusion, just like a dream. Just because somebody has a degree of intellect and takes acid does not mean that it corresponds at all with the dharma, and the dharm is what? The ultimate truth of the buddha's teachings. Interesting video non the less.

person

How about who controls your ears? Sorry but I couldn't listen to it the background music was disturbing to me.

ThailandTom

lol, or how about all the 5 sense doors :om: the 6th you SHOULD control.

Lady_Alison

I understand your message. My suggestion is that you lower or change the music in the background.

This is exactly why I limit my media expousure. Otherwise good job. I guess it's hard to control what we see 100% but making the effort to limit exposure is beneficial.

federica

A quotation I read many years ago:

"What happens behind your eyes is a thousand times more incredible than anything you could ever see going on infront of them."Gary Zukhav, "The Seat of the Soul".

shanyin

For the record I've never done acid... other things.

Good quote

patbb

my honest opinion is it look very amateurish.

you want to learn
- composition: it's not only about putting the picture on the screen, it's about where on the screen it is and how big
- timing for effects
- color theories
- storytelling (telling a story with the pictures that progress through an arc, you can go nuts with with and experiment alot; like the main arc but also colors can progress through the story, size, intensity of pictures, abstract feminine to masculine etc...)
- video editing in general.

the sound track make it sound like some death metal thing going on.
very dark and uninteresting for most of the population other than heavy metal fans... I would have shut it down really quickly if it wasn't from newbuddhist.

My opinion is as long as you are having fun doing video editing, if you are learning concepts like composition and you keep them in mind while doing the editing, it will greatly affect your work positively and the skill progression will be natural.


an idea for a next movie: What do a average American who work 8 hours, commute 2 hours, watch 4 hours of tv, see everyday.
Like what the average American see in 10 days condensed in 1 minute, compared to what a Tibetan monk see in 10 days, condensed in 1 minute.

ThailandTom

my honest opinion is it look very amateurish.

you want to learn
- composition: it's not only about putting the picture on the screen, it's about where on the screen it is and how big
- timing for effects
- color theories
- storytelling (telling a story with the pictures that progress through an arc, you can go nuts with with and experiment alot; like the main arc but also colors can progress through the story, size, intensity of pictures, abstract feminine to masculine etc...)
- video editing in general.

the sound track make it sound like some death metal thing going on.
very dark and uninteresting for most of the population other than heavy metal fans... I would have shut it down really quickly if it wasn't from newbuddhist.

My opinion is as long as you are having fun doing video editing, if you are learning concepts like composition and you keep them in mind while doing the editing, it will greatly affect your work positively and the skill progression will be natural.


an idea for a next movie: What do a average American who work 8 hours, commute 2 hours, watch 4 hours of tv, see everyday.
Like what the average American see in 10 days condensed in 1 minute, compared to what a Tibetan monk see in 10 days, condensed in 1 minute.

Now that sounds like a very good idea indeed :thumbsup:

ImmersedOne

Well the music wasn't my doing...it's a part of Leary's original production, and I and others really like it, so I guess just opinion.

And I will continue to improve my video editing skills. This was my first project ever. I made it on the day I downloaded the software. lol.

possibilities

Didn't care for the music either. Echo made it difficult to understand the words. Repetitious....
When words on the screen are different from the words one hears, it is confusing and one or the other gets lost.

In any art related project: sit on it for a while, and edit edit edit, until your message is precise and conveys itself in the shortest time possible with the most impact possible.

'Just opinion...?' You asked for it and then dismiss it?

I think the message in the video is a valid and important one!

ImmersedOne

Didn't care for the music either. Echo made it difficult to understand the words. Repetitious....
When words on the screen are different from the words one hears, it is confusing and one or the other gets lost.

In any art related project: sit on it for a while, and edit edit edit, until your message is precise and conveys itself in the shortest time possible with the most impact possible.

'Just opinion...?' You asked for it and then dismiss it?

I think the message in the video is a valid and important one!

The point of this was to do visuals over Leary's audio, and the music and the echoing is a part of Leary's audio...that part has nothing to do with what I'm doing, because the entire point of this particular video was to use his audio from that project. The music as well as the audio effects were done for a particular purpose, but a common summation of that purpose would be to say it was to make it "trippy," which is true but there's purpose even in trippiness. So I'm not disregarding your feedback, it's just that in terms of the audio, that was entirely Leary's work, and my point was not to alter Leary's work, which I consider to be magnificent.