Comments on: It'll end in tears

It'll end in tears

tellurian — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:46:44 -0800

Play with me [interactive QuickTime]. From Vanessa Sowerwine who recently got a Special Mention at Cannes for Clara.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:55:15 -0800

That was terrifying.

By: noizyboy

noizyboy — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:57:12 -0800

wah! I killed her!

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:58:18 -0800

The first set of choices I made ended with her scraping her eyes out with shards of the teapot. I think, mostly because of the whole "uncanny valley" feel of it, that I just may have some trouble getting to sleep. But then, that's just me. *scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape . . .*

By: damn yankee

damn yankee — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:00:26 -0800

I am so incredibly depressed now. I guess "It'll end in tears" should've clued me in. Nice Heathers reference, though -- intentional or not.

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:09:49 -0800

That makes my heart hurt.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:15:41 -0800

The removing her smock and crying thing is even more creepy than the drano thing.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:34:27 -0800

Wow. I went thru them all and they're all fucked. Very creepy.

By: mikeweeney

mikeweeney — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:54:38 -0800

I love this kind of stuff. Creepy. I'm reminded of the Gashleycrumb Tinies.

By: meech

meech — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:24:15 -0800

All the trailer for Clara is missing is BOB...

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 03:48:31 -0800

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded And it's not even 7 AM on the East Coast. Guess I'll have to wait a couple weeks to try this.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:19:20 -0800

Someone remember to double post this in July. I'm trying to unclutter my bookmarks.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:33:31 -0800

Is anyone else more interested in the fact that it's done with quicktime? I wasn't aware of the hypercard-like nature of MOV files until now. It reminds me of how Myst worked, though, so maybe I am familiar with it, just didn't connect the two. Also, the only way I got to scenes dealing with the monkey were by hard-scrolling. Was the monkey glowing? Er... yeah...was it?

By: mrg

mrg — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:19:08 -0800

the monkey indeed glows.. fwiw, QuickTime has been able to do interactive stuff for awhile - afaik, the Now Playing or whatever thing that comes up when you fire up QT is built using it. the site's back up, and the rest of her (his?) stuff is quite wonderfully twisted as well, IMHO

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:29:03 -0800

odinsdream - Yes, the monkey glows. And yeah, I hadn't seen the interactive capabilities if MOV files used before. Was Myst built using QuickTime? I'm happy to see the site is back up. on preview - mrg, you beat me to it.

By: Elsbet

Elsbet — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:15:01 -0800

Besides the obvious disturbing aspect of this piece, there's a remarkable ammount of skill in the animation. It's just a plastic doll, and the expressions still manage to creep you out. The slight head tilt or change in the way the eyebrows are drawn are very effective. Like bunraku, this never ceases to amaze me.