virtual policy

my favorite video at this year’s siggraph animation festival (the compendium of the special effect industry’s efforts over the last year) only one piece struck me as pure art: U2 and green day’s music video “the saints are coming,” featuring an alternate reality where the US troops in iraq were redeployed to new orleans to offer humanitarian assistance after hurricane katrina. it’s a great idea, well done, the only flaw is that it took so many special effects for this vision to be true…