Assigned Film - 'We Live In Public'

We Live In Public is a 2009 Indie Film/Documentary by Ondi Timoner that follows Josh Harris' pursuit in conveying the "future" which in his mind is the internet. His predictions were that people were going to be putting their whole lives on the internet and that privacy would be eradicated. It's overall disconcerting and critical as there's a lot of mental/emotional strain and the element of voyeurism being perverted but an optimistic view of where communication may be going (which is often tainted with the feeling of being disconnected). 

• Video tapes
• "virtual boxes"
• "One day lions and tigers were the kings of the jungle and then one day they ended up in zoos" - Where we are heading in terms of public viewing of us on the internet.
• Windows 95 boxes, glitches
• Graphs - business. This is about Josh Harris who was very interested in data analysing and comparing.

• Josh Harris was the leader of the 90s New York Internet entrepreneurs. 
• "1 frame a second" - Video streaming at the time was very slow and glitched alot. 
• Josh Harris 'Pseudo' company "as close to Andy Warhols factory as anything got" - it was hectic, creative, sex driven, art driven, etc .. 
• "business of programming peoples lives"
• "COME FORM WITH ME" Josh Harris' animation on his representation of our interaction with technology and the internet.
• Luvvy - his character - his attempt to connect.
• He imagines his project "QUIET" in his head as a concentration camp where everyone's facing forward in one direction. 
• "sense of freedom even though chained by the concept of being watched"
• "The more you get to know each other the more alone you become. That's what this environment is doing to everyone"
• "become detached from myself"  
• "reminds me of slavery"
• Element of brainwashing - how do people want to convey themselves to other and what is the pressure being put on them doing to them? Why do they want to be a part of this internet world so badly?
• Josh Harris was like a "puppet master letting them get tangled"
• Surveillance 
• "connect with so many people but have no connection"
• "other people entering our mindshare and assisting in our lives"