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A VIDEO ABOUT NOT MAKING A VIDEO

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  So, I ran out of time, I didn’t ration my time have time to make anything very interesting and was feeling bad about it. So I decided to make my video about doing anything other than making a video. I know, not exactly groundbreaking material, but it’s what I had. So I set up the camera to film me over   the next four hours and just decided to act naturally, then I stuck it together in IMovie. In a weird way I guess it does sort of fit into McCluhan’s ideas. “We have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction. We must now know in advance the consequences of any policy or action, since the results are experienced without delay. Because of electric speed, we can no longer wait and see.” Here he talks about how the digital age has made time move faster in a way, the consequences of everything are known beforehand (in my case if I don’t make this video I’ll be in trouble), here the digital age not only makes it go faster in a literal sense ...

INTRODUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

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  ABOUT Hello. My name is Dean McCullin, also known on social media by my username Dingus_Online. I’m a digital illustrator/ comics artist, I work on my webcomic Glasses (the Comic), which I post every other week. I also make other one off illustrations and comics of varying styles. I like to use mixed media with photographs as backgrounds in my work and I specialize in character design at least I like to think so. As an artist I try to express myself by making art that I feel is honest to myself even when it’s uncomfortable or explicit without losing sight of having a sense of humor, as Marshall McLuhan said, "a perceptive or incisive joke can be more meaningful than platitudes lying between two covers".  I like combining and taking inspiration from various things I see into my work, images, references, words, anything and everything. This process often like I am vomiting all of my experiences onto the page into one acidic collage of all of my experiences. I understand my ar...