How far can you push a synchronicity?
5 years ago I asked this very question and set myself the challenge of spending a full year focusing on a single sync thread to see where it would lead me.
I read through some of my old blog posts and decided that Keeping Track of the Cat, written in 2009, was fertile ground for a new video.
The premise is simple.
DNA contains the word CAT (taken from the base pairings GCAT) and when unravelled the DNA strand resembles a Train Track.
Over the following months I did a deep dive into the pattern, watching dozens of movies, both good and bad, and came up with a 10 minute video that I was proud of.
But then some weird and wonderful things started creeping in. Wherever I found references to Cats and the Track I found syncs involving Boxes. Or Adam and Eve. Even my own surname (via the band Aerosmith) entered the pattern and before I knew it I had a 30 minute video, then a 40 minute video and it just kept snowballing.
When I had an hours worth of footage, and feeling slightly overwhelmed by the whole undertaking, I politely asked the universe to stop with the synchronicities so that I could catch up with the editing and actually share some of the footage.
There was one point early in the process where I was working on a section of video involving Uma Thurman. I felt like I had too much footage on her so was trying my best to scale things back. For this reason I deliberately avoided watching Kill Bill because deep down I knew there would be synchronicities in the movie which would find their way into my already bloated video so I firmly said Nope..not watching it.
Then the very next week this riot happened which dominated the UK headlines.
So I submitted and thought fuck it, I'll watch Kill Bill.
And I'm glad I did because I'd seen this movie maybe 2 or 3 times in the past but I'd never once noticed the word CAT on Uma's iconic jumpsuit sitting above what could be interpreted as a Train Track.
And that's generally how things played out while making of the Cat on the Track videos. I felt like I was being steered in certain directions and tried my best to go with the flow.
So I dropped the first 3 videos back in 2023 then took a 3 year hiatus when I realised I was burning myself out and needed to step away for a while.
Having recharged I figured I'd revisit the videos, give them a final polish, and make them public.
So for anyone interested here is the latest batch and I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.