] There are now 16 versions of the star wars kid video,
] include a Terminator and Matrix version. Enjoy.

Ok, I'm 100% positive I'm tired of the Star Wars Kid stuff now.

But it just damn keeps on going, and going, and going.. So, I have to comment on it.. 16 versions? It brings several completely tangental things to mind..

First off, I feel so bad for this kid. I completely understand why he is trying to stay off the radar. This isn't exactly the kinda fame that anyone wishes for. I could see potental for something really bad happening, like this kid committing suicide or something. It wouldn't suprise me. Ya' wonder how the guy is taking all this? I hope he has a serious sense humor, or he is fucked..

Second. This site, jedimaster.net, might be interesting to keep an eye on. The cabal of blood sucking lawyers over at Lucas have a bad record for going after _anyone_ who so much as touches one of their trademarks in a domain name in a way that dosen't sell toys or something. So.. Er. Whatever.

Third. All these video files are small enough to be within that range where (lame) people would feel "ok" emailing them around the office.. I immagine there are many poor corporate IT guys that look just like older versions of this kid, all with overloaded Exchange servers pushing around emails containing the various 16 remixes of this slop..

Fourth. I recently finished reading Pattern Recognition. If you read that book, this amuses you more. Real life sucks. When mysterious film footage surfaces on the net and spawns a cult following, its just not as cool. You don't get weird Russan mob twins and cool hunter, you get a fat kid in Canada and a bunch of bloggers.

Fifth. This is an amusing example of how "art" in the public domain can breed very spontanious and unexpected forms of creative expression. We have some raw footage, that for some mostly inexplicable reason, touches people. Boom! 16 different derivative works based on it appear in "Internet Time". It could be argued that due to the void of "art" that both inspires, and is free to use, we are forced to endure the likes of Star Wars Kid for lack of something better to serve as a muse/source for the new technology empowered video artist type people.. There are clearly a lot of them, enough to make 16 versions of Star Wars Kid in a very short period of time. Farking remix culture..

Just watch.. Lucas decides to start going after all the people distributing the films because of its trademark, causing a bad reaction from its cult following.. The mortified Ghyslain will come out and say he supports what Lucas is doing. The cult will go rabid, and turn on him. This will push him over the edge and he will commit suicide.. The Paypal fund will be used to bury him and build a memorial.. Gibson will comment on his blog that he never saw this coming, and as a side note, that he wishes he thought about Paypal at some point when writing Pattern Recognition.. It will never end.. "All your star wars kid are belong to us" will become the biggest, and most email distributed net-meme ever, surpassing the Star Wars Kid Memorial Project videos. All this will cause me to move to a place with no Internet or computers..

All your star wars kid are belong to us