So I've got this old Powerbook 140 I bought at First Saturday in Dallas about a year or two ago. I found sitting on the cement, upside down next to a box of Dells. The vendor sold it to me for a buck. He SAID it didn't work at all, but it turns out he's a liar. If you hold down the power button for five minutes, then BASH it in, the thing starts to make crazy noises and flicker. After it does that for a few minutes, it starts to restart over and over again. After maybe twenty minutes, it finally brings up the screen prompting me to insert the System 7 floppy, which I've since misplaced. Basically, it's completely useless.

But I've found it's struggle for survival quite amusing, since it's almost 18 years old and I found it lying upside down on the pavement. And since Vimeo started this "Make it Interesting" thing, where you take a single thing and try and make it interesting through filmmaking techniques, I decided to give this little guy a purpose. I was partially inspired by Daft Punk's Electroma, hence the song choice. I felt it was fitting.

It also gave me a chance to toy with my Canon HV20, which I still haven't really put to good use. I have a thing for dark HD footage with just a hint of light. Call me crazy.

Anyway, enjoy this horribly depressing video of a dying powerbook.