iPod for mobility

Here I can see a crime scene where a victim has been outlined by iPod headphones (funny that Microsoft Word on a Mac doesn’t recognize iPod). There is black asphalt in the background and the white iPod stands out along with the headphones. I also notice the white line in the corner of the image suggesting that the victim is lying in the middle of the road. Perhaps he was crossing the street and was run over by a car because he couldn’t hear the car with his headphones in. The way the victim is dressed would suggest he’s a normal person who most people could relate to. It seems like he was an active individual because of the Nike jacket he is wearing, but the jeans, seatbelt buckle, and shirt suggest he was more casual before he became a casualty. Obviously he was either going somewhere of coming back when this happened (being very mobile). I wonder what happened to him and why he is in the middle of the road. How did his iPod headphones end up perfectly encompassing him? His face would suggest that he did not die in pain or is in any pain. Maybe he isn’t even dead.

The message I see within this picture pertains to our word of mobility. An iPod is a poster child for mobility because it’s whole purpose is to bring your entire music library with you anywhere you go. Music is a huge part of our lives and the iPod is a way for us to carry that piece with us in our pocket. But, maybe an iPod provides more mobility than we think. As stated before, we are put into our own iPod worlds of music (and even videos now). There is mobility between reality and an iPod world. Maybe the outlining of the headphones is in fact a threshold separating the two worlds. After all, his expression isn’t one of pain, but more an expression of peace. He is also in the middle of the street, a place where mobility is at its finest, but if he’s lying there in the road, the road seems to provide less mobility. In this sense, being in the iPod world makes reality seem to stop or at least slow down and restrict mobility in reality.