How I Mashed "2001" And "Tron" Into A Tragic Love Story About
Human-Machine Interaction  The video created by our own John
Pavlus for Jascha’s "Limited" asks: What if an artificial
intelligence like HAL wasn’t evil, but just misunderstood?  The
last time I wrote about science-journalist/songwriter Jascha
Hoffman, it was about his music video remixing old Little Nemo
comics into a new story. His new music video for the song
"Limited," uses a similar collage technique—remixing scenes from
2001: A Space Odyssey, Robocop, TRON, Moon, and WarGames to tell
an unrequited sci-fi love story—and I should know, since I made
it. Did you ever think you could empathize with an "unfeeling"
machine?  I’ve been curious for a while about whether I could
re-edit images, shots, and scenes from well-known movies to tell
different stories from the ones I borrowed them from. It also
seemed like an intriguing challenge to take images that have
acquired so much "baggage" over the years—like HAL’s glowering
cyclops eye, which has beco