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Great vids! The last one made me think of blooming plastic flowers. It would be fun to do an ecologically themed remix/mashup of these 3 and play around with juxtapositions and contradictions.

For example: Although apples are traditional symbols of life, the apple in the “breathing apple” video seems to focus more on the death part of the apple’s life cycle. That could be juxtaposed with clips of plastic bags which are well-known as agents of suffocation (i.e., death), but in the “Secret Life of Packaging” video, they function as symbols of life (they all seem to “bloom and grow” (Eidelweiss Song from Sound of Music) like strangely animate plastic flowers. The mashup could be set in a paradisical parking lot (think of the Counting Crows song “Yellow Taxi” about paving paradise to put up a parking lot) in which all the trash seems to bloom and grow and the animate things are lifeless.

You could even cut in some footage of the parking lots and pavements from the Slow Moscow video, then perhaps layer it in with contrasting footage from a couple of other cities from countries in different parts of the world.

Thanks for the chance to making a one-minute mini-movie in my head!

BTW – The title of your post reminded me of this little video: Just Change Point of View http://www.theoneminutesjr.org/index.php?thissection_id=10&movie_id=200600145