The desktop video recordings were too ambitious in length and most of the storytelling had to be removed to fit the minute criteria. The pacing is fast with a slow beginning of the desktop pets overpopulating the boarders of a lush mossy biome background. As I continue to play meditative and thought-provoking music, a photo slideshow of what can be seen in these locations plays and a frog video stares at you, showing a sense of life. The video continues with a quote by Mahatma Gandhi that inspired the choice of my concept for this video. I thought about the ways in which we impact our beautiful environments by the way we treat them for our own benefit. Without realising the impact this has on the life that exists within these distinct habitats. As the quote types, the world opacity changes to reveal an outcome of deforestation and another slideshow plays to show our impact. The desktop pets wonder mindlessly without any concern to the destruction. It’s a reminder of our ignorance even though these issues eventually impact us. This contrast helps support the quote and displays the real situations where we have damaged habitats based on our own greed.

This concept is very similar to the sculpture project in terms of the forest elements, only this time it’s a different conversation. As I didn’t want to waste content I had downloaded for the videos, I thought I would reuse them for a purpose with a different meaning. As someone with zero understanding of desktop performance, I was inspired by Pinterest boards in the way that they play advertisements through beautiful collages, and it reminds me of the ways that industries will always find a way to build profit rather than allowing these places and locations to exist freely. The desktop video asks us to let habitats live with their beauty without our interruptions. Overall, I wish my pacing could have been slower and had a longer run time. I wanted to really let the quote speak for itself and allow the viewer to interact with the environment. In the future I would like to expand on this idea with more complicated devices on my desktop.