sitting in the library

sitting here in the cave of mcclellan i noticed, as never before, how the face of the kid sitting across from me is almost completely blocked out by his computer screen. save his hairline and occasionally a chunk of forehead, i can't see any of his face. i feel like it would be interesting to somehow document how much time we spend staring into computer screens, and how silly the screens look when we look back on them. have you ever noticed how whenever there's a television or computer screen in some home movie it always looks so obviously silly and boring and small and meaningless and yet the people in the video remain enraptured by the screen? how only through this new medium, this further distance can one readily distinguish how really flat and ridiculous such things are? i feel like i should try and make something that communicates how ridiculous that flatness is