Saw two slick short videos on infosthetics today. Both use quickly moving 3D motion graphics with text and symbols in a red/black/white color scheme narrated in a British accent with an ominous tone to warn us of vague, yet omnipresent threats we are fairly powerless to do anything about. One threat (click “Projects”, then “What Barry Says”) is the military-industrial complex and its ongoing hijack of US foreign policy since the end of WW2 to ensure that there is a need for there products all the time. It was created by Knife Party’s Simon Robson. The other threat is Google. Confused? Google may have started out on the up and up, but (according to the German filmmakers Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer, who credit “What Barry Says” with inspiring them) Google can’t be as profitable and pervasive as it claims to be without breaking its own first rule of operating: “Don’t be evil.” With its tendrils in genetic research as well as the accumulation and mining of all public data (digital and analog), it’s true aim, according to the film, is to create full profiles of every human for the use of governments and corporations. Facts, the filmmakers claim, are backed up in David A. Wise’s The Google Story.