Thursday, July 30, 2015

snow globe


Sperm cells and egg. The sperm have little eyes.

An item about a strange swarm of white spheres over Osaka Japan caused a stir about UFOs. The grainy recording (in Japan!) is unconvincing. It could easily be a bunch of balloons tied together gently blowing across town. 

What do you use over there in Japan for your uploaded videos, the post-industrial coughing gray lung haze filter? 

The video is ridiculous.

My intention was to take a few frames from the video to see the balloons passing by (a cold  gray soulless cityscape), then enlarge the balloon portion zooming into them, easy with gray background switching at midpoint to my own contrived series of snow globes. I didn't have a clear idea of what to put in the snow globes for best effect. What is Osaka most afraid of? What is a cartoon Osaka fear? Godzilla eggs? Aliens? Chinese? Koreans? American models, robots, what? I looked at eBay for snow globe ideas and they're all Disney princess snow globes. I tried google images for "odd snow globes," "strange," and "weird," "villain," and this sperm and egg snow globe was seen on the results page for "alien snow globes" and I realized it cannot be topped so just drop the whole idea. This photo came from reddit. A contributor found it in old boxes he was clearing out. Apparently someone before him was a doctor. 

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