'Above' street artist.

Street Artist 'Above' has created a very interesting stop motion animation outlining his thoughts on the way we use social media as a form of primary communication.  I love how Above has used a public wall as his canvas because many people will walk past and see his work.  I feel this is vital to the overall cause of this piece as it needs to target everyone who uses social media.  Then again, Above is making the point that people don't look away from their phones often enough anyway and they end up missing out on life.  

The impermanent nature of using paint is excellent.  By using paint, Above can easily tell his story and erase words as accessibly as you can on social media sites.  This allows for the fast paced time frame in which he completed this piece.  He makes very valid points about the fact that people would check their Facebook whilst driving, watching a movie and even during sex. Has real human interaction become that unimportant in the 21st Century?  I think the most harrowing question he asks is 'When is too much simply too much?' because most people have no idea they are even addicted to social media in the first place.  Checking your phone every 5 minutes has become normal, you don't even realise you're doing it.  I feel that Above effectively communicated the obvious message that we are addicted to social media.  However not enough people actually talk about it, or consider it as a problem.  This stop motion animation would be a useful tool in promoting awareness of this new generational problem facing us.

 

Parisian artist 'Above' underlines how people waste too much time on social media, by painting statements as street art and taking 9,000 photographs of it over five days to construct a stop-motion animation. 
The time-lapse painting—executed at GALORE festival in Copenhagen, Denkmark—was ironically reblogged and seen on social media outlets all over the world.  
In a statement on the video’s Vimeo page, he says: “People look at me like I’m from another planet when I tell them I don’t have social media like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.” 

“We live in a ridiculously hyper fast pace life where information exchanged so rapidly that it makes us feel inadequate and drains our attention span.”

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http://vimeo.com/48736559