Pink Floyd, the Borg, Welcome to the Machine

Описание: Another music video assembled back in the '90s using two VCRs for dubbing, a CD player for audio, and a stopwatch to get the timing right. Kind of appropriate that this setup looked a bit Borg itself...

What can I say? I'm good at assimilating stuff, making it do things the manufacturer never intended.

Copyright status currently under dispute. From YouTube's own Fair Use page:
http://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/f...

`Courts typically focus on whether the use is "transformative." That is, whether it adds new expression or meaning to the original, or whether it merely copies from the original.'

I believe this video is a unique interpretation of a song which was originally (and ironically, under the circumstances) meant as a jab at the music industry.

To explain a little further, the video is a reflection on my childhood. No, I was not abused, at least not by my parents. But I didn't like school, so the teachers sent me in for testing. When those results were inconclusive, I was sent for further testing... Etc. Basically, they tried to turn me into a `normal' kid.

One of my deepest, darkest fears at the time was that they might succeed. Another one was that there really WAS something seriously wrong with me.

So in effect I was not raised by my parents, but by a bureaucracy -- by `The Machine' as it were.

Anyway, that's what the song means to me. Hence the video.