So You've Decided to Start Smoking... (Revisited)
01 May 2013
So You've Decided to Start Smoking... (Revisited)
by Vesperae
SMOKE SIGNALS MAGAZINE - May - June 2013
This is the first multimedia piece I did for the online version of Smoke Signals Magazine, originally published in the July–August 2007 issue. Presented here for the first time outside of the Smoke Signals Online membership area. (By the way, the Smoke Signals Magazine Archive is one of the coolest features of membership, in my opinion. It's a treasure trove of fascinating "time capsule" moments in the SF Community dating back to February of 2003!)
Apologies for the lower resolution of this clip. I was working with much less sophisticated tools at the time, and I was also trying to keep the file size manageable. But that being said, I think that the impact of the piece still transcends the intermittent pixilation, and I hope that you can enjoy it for what it is.
From my original introduction:
"This month's 'column' won't quite be a 'column.'
"Instead, I've put together a creative multimedia edit. I'm hoping that it will be entertaining and perhaps thought provoking for a range of different levels of Dark Side interests. Note that this piece contains only music, text images, and glamour smoking video. There are no graphic or explicit aesthetically 'challenging' images or descriptions, only conceptual juxtaposition and implication intended to stimulate the imagination of the viewer.
"This piece is a distillation and expression of all of the things that I was picturing and thinking about in my own tender imagination, as I sat in the darkness of my 10th grade Biology class digesting a film on the dangers of smoking…
"Featuring Smoke Signals member video spanning the last few years, shot by the studio of the one and only Tony P., with sincerest appreciation for all of the incredible content that he creates, and with sincerest admiration for the artistry that he consistently brings to his work. 'Sexy Cool' indeed!"
