Comments on: 787 cliparts, looped

787 cliparts, looped

mathowie — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:19:59 -0800

787 pieces of clip art, in a loop -- mesmerizing, haunting, and amusing. I can't stop watching. [via coudal]

By: Grod

Grod — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:24:01 -0800

fun.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:34:41 -0800

By: steviehero

steviehero — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:36:08 -0800

I believe that a warning that the site tries to start an ActiveX app through your browser would be in order.

By: thekilgore

thekilgore — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:42:05 -0800

Watching that with the right soundtrack really helps. I had "The Enemy Guns" by DeVotchKa on and it really enhanced the weirdness.

By: milquetoast

milquetoast — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:42:51 -0800

Is is really appropriate to wear a Speedo whilst riding an ostrich?

By: snofoam

snofoam — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:43:50 -0800

i think that's an emu.

By: pantufla

pantufla — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:47:56 -0800

"Okey Dokey" by the Incredible Bongo Band enhances the psychedelia

By: everichon

everichon — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:47 -0800

Strangely engrossing. And karate!

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:59:53 -0800

It could have been improved with music of some sort, but otherwise, yeah, it was pretty awesome. Hypnotyzing is the right word. I was worried that like those optical illusions where you stare at the spinning lines for one minute & then everything you look at warps that somehow when I looked away from this everyone in the real world would be shifting & flickering.

By: Olli

Olli — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:07:51 -0800

I feel strangely hypnotised. I believe that a warning that the site tries to start an ActiveX app through your browser would be in order. There is nothing in the page's source which would do that. Perhaps it's some strange thing internet explorer does when it sees an embedded quicktime file.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:08:37 -0800

i think that's an emu. Same question:

By: milarepa

milarepa — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:09:32 -0800

that was awesome!!!

By: QuestionableSwami

QuestionableSwami — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:11:44 -0800

Built To Spill's "Goin' Against Your Mind" works pretty well too. Trippy.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:14:59 -0800

Fascinating.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:18:23 -0800

Direct link to video.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:22:26 -0800

I like how the boxing morphs into kissing and hugging. Watching that with the right soundtrack really helps. I thought the exact same thing while I was watching it. My soundtrack was Mission of Burma's "Nicotine Bomb".

By: Milkman Dan

Milkman Dan — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:33:31 -0800

I've never seen clip art look so artful. I loved the fight scene. Great choreography. And quite charming how the Clip Art Characters resolve their tensions and end up dancing. But there sure are some odd conflicts going on. Please explain the backstory of this here conflict between The Amazonian Library Lady and the Contortionist Sailor: And not to abuse the image tag, but I had to curiously wonder about these two:

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:38:13 -0800

Utterly fails to work in my browser (FireFox 1.505). QuickTime gave me some kind of message about not having the software needed to perform some action or other, and "unfortunately this software is not available on the QuickTime server." Have I ever mentioned I'm not a QuickTime fan? :P

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:39:44 -0800

Watched it to The Go! Team's Junior Kickstart, and um, I think I messed myself. Awesome. The clips, not the mess.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:47:00 -0800

this is excellent. excellent.

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:58:52 -0800

I was fully prepared for some pretentious artsy thing that would suck. I was very wrong. Which is to say that this is quite cool.

By: rafter

rafter — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:02:06 -0800

Milkman Dan: "And not to abuse the image tag, but I had to curiously wonder about these two:" Clipart is so gay. Seriously, I thought it was great to see gay/lesbian images in a clipart collection. Though it would be nice if they had a better picture than yellowjacket and orangehat. Great post.

By: fvw

fvw — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:04:36 -0800

Embedded content is a pain, direct link to the quicktime file which should play in most modern standalone players.

By: Vervain

Vervain — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:08:22 -0800

Watching that with the right soundtrack really helps. "21st Century Boy", Sigue Sigue Sputnik. That's all I'm sayin'.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:33:57 -0800

Fantastic. My only complaint is that it ends on a boring note.

By: dkirk78

dkirk78 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:45:13 -0800

On the same subject, here are two funny clip art things, by a comedian I used to work with/ write for.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:01:42 -0800

So long as we're on the subject of clipart, courtesy of the Wayback Machine (which means the pictures may not load or take a while, dammit): Last Cliparts strip

By: Roger Dodger

Roger Dodger — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:15:21 -0800

It doesn't end, it loops! That way, you never have to stop watching.

By: poweredbybeard

poweredbybeard — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:46:45 -0800

By: Milkman Dan

Milkman Dan — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:08:43 -0800

A Clipart Darkly?

By: signal

signal — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:53:57 -0800

wonder if they sorted the images by hand or used some sort of program?

By: Stunt

Stunt — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:37:23 -0800

Thanks for the firect link to the movie, for some reason the main link crashes firefox for me everytime I try to go to it.

By: dontoine

dontoine — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:28:51 -0800

It goes really well with Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong." Not usually my iTunes fave, but in this context something special happens.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:09:00 -0800

I was worried that... when I looked away from this everyone in the real world would be shifting & flickering But jonson, everyone in the real world is shifting and flickering! Aren't they?

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:51:29 -0800

All I can think about is doing some Fight Club editing on this clip. Now where could I get the appropriate images to insert...where oh where ?

By: supercrayon

supercrayon — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:50:41 -0800

Watched it with The Hives "See Through Head," which seriously seems like tailor made for this.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:13:54 -0800

Can someone tell me a song it doesn't go with?

By: heylight

heylight — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:49:57 -0800

Who knew clipart was so poetic? Nice post!