Notes on my first music video "Paradigm Shift"

     I wrote a song called "Paradigm Shift" in the Spring of 2011 after reading a blog that Stu Vickars had posted on Facebook.  This song was followed by my first music video which I envisioned after seeing some of the video editing work done by Annette Mills in England.
     The opening sequence was from a video clip that I made on a visit to my cabin in early May of 2010 when snow started falling so I thought this "shift" of winter snow into Spring seemed an appropriate image for my video.
     The sunset image taken along the QEW near the Dufferin gates of the CNE seemed also appropriate for this video with its contrast of natural lighting from the sun on the clouds and the artifical lighting of the rear tail-lights of the cars on the highway.
     The images of the old world map and the new view from space are also meant to portray a "paradigm shift".  
     For the line "Don't let a tyrant rule over you" I decided to use a bit of comic relief with the photo taken of myself in Ohio (Stop Double Dipping Dave) rather than some current real world tyrant.  At this time in our history a number of tyrants were being tossed off.  The Halloween decoration of the witch is also comic relief and here I think of Wizard of Oz. 
     The images from the second verse are meant to be positive as opposed to the mostly negative images from the first verse.  These photos were provided to me, at the last minute, by Stu Vickars.  I hope they portray a sense of people helping each other in an environmentally friendly way.
     The sunset images near the end are meant to cycle back to the cabin location and give a sense of change, as one paradigm ends and another begins.