In the top left sits a web browser with a YouTube posting titled:
"Postcard from 1952 (Live) - Explosions in the Sky."
The cursor clicks play and the video opens with band members walking on stage.
In the upper right, the cursor clicks play on a video showing a white background.
In the video a cursor types: I feel silly talking. . . .
A browser with tweets slides on top of the video with typing.
The cursor turns into a spotlight and highlights a tweet.
The cursor scrolls up and highlights another tweet.
A new browser appears, filling the screen.
A black screen loads in the browser.
The black screen moves to the background.
A text file and a video showing blue sky slide on screen.
The black screen in the back changes to a field and sky.
A browser appears with an article titled:
The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality.
The cursor selects the text of the article.
The cursor opens a menu and selects Copy.
The browser slides off screen.
The cursor moves the text file to the top right of the screen.
The cursor pastes text into the text file.
In the back, a mixed media collage, then a field and sky appear.
The video with the band moves forward.
Videos move to the front showing typing, sky and jet trails, a man making bubbles.
The sky and jet trails slide off the screen.
A browser slides on screen titled: Using BBAutoComplete. A spotlight shines
on text in the browser: BBAutoComplete looks backwards and forward. . . .
The browser slides off screen.
In the background, a camera moves over the asphalt of an old road.
In the text file, the cursor types: We seek c.
A Scripts dialog box shows a highlighted item: BBAutoComplete.
In the dialog box, the cursor clicks a button marked Run.
With each click, words appear in the text file: column, clog, communal, challenge.
The cursor edits and autocompletes words in the text file.
In the background, images shift: amber texture changes to a white screen.
A yellow, hand-drawn bird appears on screen.
The cursor continues to change words in the text file with autocomplete.
Images shift on screen: a scanned flyer, moving figures, the band performing.
The cursor moves the video that shows typing. Text is visible:
When I started out. . . . There seemed to be a difference. . . .
In the text file, the cursor types: transformation.
In the background, a figure shovels snow and a figure rides an ATV.
The cursor moves the Scripts dialog box off screen.
An Info dialog box appears showing word, character, and page counts.
A spotlight illuminates the box, highlighting Words.
The cursor closes the Info box.
A web browser appears, filling the screen.
The cursor resizes and moves the browser.
In the background, images shift: a collage of figures, jet trails.
The cursor opens a tab in the browser showing a blog posting.
The cursor selects the text.
The cursor moves to the text file and pastes in the text.
The Info box appears and a spotlight illuminates the new Word count.
A new blog posting is loaded in the browser.
The text is copied.
The text is pasted into the text file.
The spotlight shows the changing word count.
A new blog posting is loaded in the browser.
The text is copied.
The text is pasted into the text file.
The spotlight shows the changing word count.
In the background, images shift: a collage of figures, a portable building.
A new blog posting is loaded in the browser.
The text is copied.
The text is pasted into the text file.
The cursor opens a blog posting, and then copies and pastes text into the text file.
In the background band members sway and play their instruments.
The cursor opens a blog posting, and then copies and pastes text into the text file.
In the background, a portable building is demolished and the band plays.
The cursor opens a blog posting, and then copies and pastes text into the text file.
The cursor opens a blog posting, and then copies its text.
The cursor moves the browser with the blog postings off screen.
The cursor pastes text into the text file.
The spotlight shows the changing word count
The cursor scrolls to the top of the text file and types: We seek to be s.
The Scripts box appears and thecursor runs autocomplete.
Using autocomplete and typing, the cursor writes:
We seek to be several things and we want to make things.
In the background, band members play and figures appear.
In the text file, typing continues:
There are more than enough of the old things in place.
In the background images play: jet trails, demolition of buildings, the band playing.
Videos appear and shift: bees and flowers, jet trails, text.
The cursor types: This is the place where we make scholarly w.
The cursor runs autocomplete: w becomes we.
Autocomplete runs: "we" becomes "where," "want," "what," "with," "went," "who."
The cursor deletes the word "who" and types, "where are the waves?"
The cursor types: "We seek w."
The cursor runs autocomplete: "w" is replaced with "waves."
The cursor types: "We have found them!!!!"
Videos play: jet trails; a man making bubbles.
In the text file, typing and autocomplete continue.
Videos play: jet trails; text being typed; a man making large bubbles.
In the upper left, the band members jam on their instruments.
In the text file, typing and autocomplete have produced a phrase:
We feel them flowing through the screen.
The scripts box is moved off screen.
The text file is moved off screen.
Videos play: a jet trails vapor against a dark blue sky.
The band jams on their instruments.
In the lower right a small video scrolls through a list of sources.
In the background, visuals show a building being demolished and burning debris.
A collage of images fills the background: demolition and multiple figures.
A figure is clicked, and a video opens with a man and woman in an office.
Videos shuffle and play on screen: jet trails; the band; typing; waves.
In the upper right, jet trails are lit orange against a dark blue sky.
In the upper left, a band member picks a guitar.
In the lower left, a middle-aged woman sits at a desk, smiling.
In the upper right, jet trails stream, bright orange.
Sources scroll in the lower right.
The video with the band stops and is moved off screen.
Videos are moved off screen.