Air France "Collapsing at Your Doorstep"
Two of my favorite videos from the past year. They function on very different wavelengths in nearly every way. A yin and yang if you will : crack and heroin, mma and yoga, robots and humans. The Stress video really gets my synapses firing at a rapid rate and gets my neon lights blinking and metal sparking. The frustration and rage are palpable. My favorite part is at about 1:30 when the one guy is shadow-boxing behind a bus-stop and one of his angry French sidekicks looks up and just mean mugs the camera. The "Cross gang," as I like to refer to them, is unrelenting throughout the video; their taste for destruction is insatiable.
Now as a robot you would assume I would have a severe distaste for the lack of reasoning and organization embodied by these troublesome Frenchman. Incorrect. There is a beauty in chaos that is undeniable. Watch both videos and tell me which elicits a greater sense of comfort and joy- a feeling I think synonymous with beauty. There is a perverted romance in watching the inexhaustaible energy with which they tear the world apart. As a robot I am especially primed to appreciate the anger and frustration that accompany the often unavoidable normalcy and reptitive nature of life. These little French hoodlums are out to say fuck all, and I'm fittin' to get myself a leather jacket with a Justice Cross and smash some rear-view mirrors and harass some subway patrons myself.
Just talking about it make me feel like I could short-circuit at any minute. So I recommend watching the second video as a way to reboot your operating system.
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