Session 8, Come on and meet your maker....

Upon first opening the site, two things popped into my head. "What was he on when he was making this?" and "what do I have to be on to understand this?". To add to the confusion that I was engulfed in was the music or sounds that were looping in the background.

Music and sounds are indeed a very powerful tool that can be used to trigger many emotions in people, have you ever wondered why a horror movie is not scary when the movie is muted? Well its because the sounds is what triggers those emotions. I could say the music (or sound loops) used on Jason's site each had their own purpose to have the viewer feel certain thing. I tried all the links available and have to admit on the game, game and game again one the sounds along with the texts popping up everywhere did create an interesting artpiece.

 I was still lost however, each level seemed to be talking about a particular issue but why and what was being said exactly I could not grasp. The only one I think I understood a little was the skyscraper level, where it seemed to be portraying modern living (or city life at least) to be like a prison with walls everywhere and everything so bunched up.

From here I went on opening every link available, and I really tried hard to understand what was being portrayed but I could not pick up on anything. This is how you will die, evidence of everything exploding this, hymns of a drowning swimmer and conversation were memorable though. Where I had the occasional chill run down my spine from reading such weird text to go along with the sounds I was hearing.

"This is proof, of course, that we are all ruled by wooden men"

Playing a game where all the flashing lights and demented sounds were already distracting enough, but having statements like the one above crowd up your screen as you try to not meet your maker really had it hard for me to enjoy things. Maybe enjoying wasnt the point, but yeah I was constantly saying "what the **** is this?!" So from here instead of looking at the picture as a whole, I tried analysing things bit by bit. But wilde and the wildly branded got the best of me, even trying to interpret each individual sentence along with the background video playing......I could not find meaning.

I have done many english literature and analysis classes in the past. Taking looks at so many poems, books, short stories and then writing essays on them. When it comes to Jason's work, I find it difficult to interpret things. It is as if the whole point of the site is to mess with your head, or that is the impression I got. It is not poetry I am used to, I have to take in the messages not only by reading but from the sounds played and crazy visuals presented. Everything is so random and abstract that it seems as if there is no order in reading things.
Non the less, this was an interesting and unique experience that I never before had online.