{"id":3878,"date":"2023-07-07T02:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/?page_id=3878"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:06:59","slug":"ihead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/ihead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;iHead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3878-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loop=\"1\" autoplay=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ihead_64.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ihead_64.mp4\">https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ihead_64.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><br \/>\nRelax, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\">it&#8217;s <strong>iHead<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When <strong>Super Connected<\/strong> was released in May 2023, it was blocked on <strong>Apple Music<\/strong>. Global media outlets reported that the block was due to similarities between Super Connected&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>iHead&#8217;<\/strong> and Apple&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>Vision Pro<\/strong>&#8216;.\u00a0 (See iHead on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Connected#Censorship_and_Apple\">Wikipedia<\/a> or read 30 news articles <a href=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/ihead-2\/\">here)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>General Clutterbuck<\/strong> of Corphew Mews has since confirmed the Apple block on the album was in fact due to the presence of a fake ad on the album, rather than the content that was speculated to be targeting the <strong>Vision Pro<\/strong> headset.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr Clutterbuck was also able to confirm that, contrary to popular belief, \u00a0human beans with human hearts do in fact work in <strong>Sillycon Valley<\/strong>, and on the 7th July 2023, <strong>Apple<\/strong> showed their support for <strong>Tim Arnold<\/strong> and his album by finally welcoming <strong>Super Connected<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/super-connected\/1696047686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Music<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But what is an &#8220;<strong>iHead<\/strong>&#8220;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>iHead<\/strong> is to <em>Super Connected<\/em> what the <em>Lightsaber is to <strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>. It&#8217;s a powerful tool, but it really depends on who&#8217;s got hold of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2016, Tim Arnold regularly heard friends saying <em>&#8220;Everyone has phones stuck to their heads these days&#8221;<\/em>. And so begins the story of the &#8220;<strong>iHead<\/strong>&#8220;. And it is quite a story.\u00a0 Over a 100 people have worn the iHead, each signing an NDA in 2019 to never speak about it until the feature film of &#8216;Super Connected&#8217; is finally made available to the public. You can listen to actor <strong>Stephen Fry<\/strong> explain the benefits of the <strong>iHead<\/strong> in the video below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6QiPrytZb0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TaMail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up to experience &#8216;iHead&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>INCEPTION<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After meeting a psychotherapist in Italy whose job it was to assess teenagers addicted to screens and social media, Tim Arnold began work on the song &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/songwhip.com\/tim-arnold\/superconnected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Connected<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 The track is based on a true story of a teenage girl who locked herself in her room with her tech devices, suffering with selective mutism. Her story instigated the idea of the &#8216;iHead&#8217; becoming the central focus of the album and film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3899\" src=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SC-Single-Cover-2023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nVALERIE CHARLTON &#8211; Model Maker<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Arnold had already begun sketches of people with phones stuck all over their heads.\u00a0 In the story of &#8216;Super Connected&#8217; this evolved into a virtual headset created by fictional tech company <a href=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/picture-sounds\/\">&#8216;Picture Sounds&#8217; <\/a>that used screens to both project <em>and receive<\/em> imagery simultaneously, to enhance our experience of <em>sound<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Focusing on the theme of the album that highlights the imbalance between the <em>digital disembodied world<\/em> and the <em>phenomenal world<\/em>, he decided to try and make the headset for the music video for the song &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h8seTisXw_w\">Start With The Sound<\/a>&#8216;. He&#8217;d recently met legendary special FX model maker <strong>Val Charlton<\/strong> <em>(Labyrinth, Brazil, Monty Python&#8217;s Holy Grail). <\/em>Arnold asked Charlton for advice on how to make what he had affectionately begun to call an <em>&#8216;iHead&#8217;. <\/em>Within days, Charlton began working on the iHead at her North London studio in the winter of 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3881 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4238-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Charlton and Arnold worked together for several months, making sure the ancient greek styled spirals were the right size and weight, dismantling an old &#8216;Dart&#8217; Super 8 recorder from the &#8217;60s, getting the right iPhones <em>(iPhone 5&#8217;s)<\/em>, preloading them with the information that tells the story in the feature length movie Arnold was still developing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CoPk8gQMGyU\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>ANDREW SCHLUSSEL &#8211; VFX<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe head of global talent at VFX company <strong>Framestore<\/strong>, Andrew Schlussel, was a friend of Charlton&#8217;s. She introduced Schlussel to Arnold and almost immediately, they locked on as creative partners with a mutual love for early 80&#8217;s sci-fi.\u00a0 Schlussel offered to create the photogrammetry of the iHead so the film scenes Arnold had written were actually possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schlussel began to complete all the digital rendering of Charlton&#8217;s real life model of the iHead as Arnold began to see the balance of <em>embodied<\/em> creativity and <em>digital<\/em> creativity unite in the creative partnership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What the iHead actually does is only revealed in the full feature length film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The full film will <em>not<\/em> be released online until it has been screened as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/live-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SUPER CONNECTED LIVE<\/strong><\/a> shows. More articles in the news about &#8216;iHead&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/ihead-2\/\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3930\" src=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-141x200.jpg 141w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-600x849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iHead-Screenshots-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TaMail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">Sign up to experience &#8216;iHead&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Relax, it&#8217;s iHead &nbsp; When Super Connected was released in May 2023, it was blocked on Apple Music. Global media outlets reported that the block was due to similarities between Super Connected&#8217;s &#8216;iHead&#8217; and Apple&#8217;s &#8216;Vision Pro&#8216;.\u00a0 (See iHead on Wikipedia or read 30 news articles here) General Clutterbuck of Corphew Mews has since&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superconnected.technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}