chris says:

I thought the opening couple of minutes was pretty dramatic – sometimes crudely over-dramatic – but the soundscape was nonetheless interesting, and had a definite character to it. Good movie scene accompaniment, probably.

Then the tonal bit – gash, like the facial expressions. Sentimental, lowest common denominator trash.

4 minutes, the buried kid rock is rising and is shallow and pointless.

I liked it breaking back into chaos at around 6:30, which is perhaps the point of the gash – to highlight how gashy that kind of stuff is, and I thought for a moment that this was his idea: to show it dying in the ensuing chaos.

His zooming about thereafter isn’t random – it still shows some of the fits of the original as it drowns itself. Not bad, that bit.

And then the gash is back again at 8:15 FOR SOME BLOODY REASON THAT SPOILS EVERYTHING AGAIN.

I don’t think he’s mature or smart enough to actually know what he’s trying to do in a coherent, simple or original fashion that doesn’t simply require a big shirt and what he hopes passes as an artistic rictus. Django Bates does this kind of thing a quintillion times better. And, like, 20 years ago.

TED audiences are suckers for this kind of nonsense, sadly.

Judith says:

Gash, without a doubt. I think we used to do a similar thing during break time in upper school hanging around the music block. The only impressive thing about it is that he managed to get someone to book him to do it…!

Am I being a snob?!