Social Security

Someone is agonizing over outfits that can be seen laid out on the bed in different configurations in quick cuts. They are very generic, dark colored outfits that seem kind of pointless to agonize over. They are seen leaving their home on foot wearing a pair of the shoes seen with one of the outfits. They have a little bag with them. It's dark out or very early morning almost light. They are putting stickers on things, graffiti stickers. The stickers are pictures of eyes looking out from a hole, kind of spying out from wherever they are stuck on. The picture is very trompe l'oeil, so they seem very realistic. They pass by a wall or a sign and slap the sticker on as they go. It's hard to tell that they've done anything at all let alone vandalize the surface of something. Here the camera stops following them and stays on this sticker as it's becoming more light out and as they are seen walking away in the distance, a very upright-looking citizen comes from that same direction and into focus and angrily notes the sticker the camera has been lingering on. In the background is a security camera that can't be seen clearly but as the upright citizen peels the sticker from the No Parking Anytime sign, the camera changes focus from the peeling to sharpen on the security camera.

Vandals

Lots of tracking: trains going by with graffiti. Wall graffiti. Street graffiti. Stamped and poured on streets and buildings. Poles with ripped off old ads. Boards with torn off old ads. The beauty in things made with the human hand and things worn away by time, the wind, the sun, rain. An art car goes by or is passed by. Yarn bombs. Murals on campus, in town. Impromptu chalk drawings, the mandala in the street. George's flower corner. Someone's wacky yard, over grown. Contrast with a hideous corporate sign seen on a freeway in a hellish landscape.

Phoning it in

A person is out walking. The viewer is the walker. They walk out of their home. They  start out in a "civilized" world, totally modern. They are on the sidewalk. They walk past houses, shops, streets, cars, trucks, society's sounds and sights gradually give way from nervous energy and chaos to a more green suburban walk then to more outskirts and then into a wooded walk, more green and serene. The sounds and scenery change from intrusive to bucolic, etc., greys and neons to greens and blues, etc.. On the path they pass a smart phone lying on the ground. They barely give it notice until it makes this noise: "pssst". They stop. They turn back. They go to pick it up. On the screen are the words, "Click here" and a button. They click there. As they watch the screen, a story unfolds inside the phone. A person is shown walking. They go from point a to point b, the scenery gradually changing until it is clear from visual cues that they are now right where the person holding the phone is. A noise and flash occur and that person who was walking appears to be trapped now inside the phone. The person holding the phone has a second to be stunned, with the sound of birds, the sound of the forest still surrounding them. The person holding the phone looks up and away from the phone to the scene around them. Then, the same strange noise happens. Then the flash. Then the screen goes dark.