Preston made an adaptation/mash-up of the various versions of the Hatupatu legend for his Major Project 2005. Maori legend kick ass!
2002 – This video is a 3D animation and tells a story about a cyborg/boy trying to get to his cyborg/girl. The girl lives in a self-contained environment – a fort surrounded with deep security gaps. Through a high-tech video-computer system she monitors all outside movement, including the boys’ attempts to get into her fort. He is trying and trying and at last with an incredible inner power he leaps over the fort’s wall and walks into her mansion realizing that now he is locked inside and she is experiencing freedom. Credits: Testtube Productions Lyrics: So lost in a place with no colors no hands Nothing but the light when they land They came from above with a message from you Sent from Venus with ‘Bye, I’m gone for good.’ This small piece of paper and a vision I see Nor one or another I need What’s wrong with my pride my courage my style What’s your reason to disappear from my life Well, I could be loved but to you an enemy I could be an angel but you’d like the beast I could get down on my knees and be your little babe you’d go to Venus an’ I’m here to stay ’cause I don’t know the way (no I don’t) I’m left with a smell and her voice in my head All songs laying torn on the floor I seek thru the dark whether they’ll come again Though stuck with a thought I’ll see them no more My drawings in sand represent my alert Hoping they’ll deflect up to her My smile is defending what inside is poor I’m not gonna stop looking for you Well, I could be loved but to you an enemy I could …