What does it all mean?

February 19, 2007 5:08 PM

This site is very strange and very lovely.
posted by leahwrenn (34 comments total)

Oh thanks a LOT. After I finished looking at it a little girl called me and said "Seven Days".
posted by matty at 5:12 PM on February 19, 2007 [5 favorites]

Whoa. Pretty neat!
posted by brundlefly at 5:15 PM on February 19, 2007

Strange, lovely and a little bit scary. Thanks.
posted by bunglin jones at 5:16 PM on February 19, 2007

Owls are the Devil's eyes and ears.

You know that, don't you?
posted by Cyrano at 5:16 PM on February 19, 2007

Flashturbation
posted by jonson at 5:17 PM on February 19, 2007 [2 favorites]

Flashturbation

And yet, no climax.
posted by o0o0o at 5:23 PM on February 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

I dig.
posted by fungible at 5:26 PM on February 19, 2007

Great. With the USB driven copy of TorPark I use to walk around the filtering at work, I get no Flash....
posted by Samizdata at 5:47 PM on February 19, 2007

Hey, it's the new eBay beta site.
posted by jfuller at 5:48 PM on February 19, 2007

When you get to the end, it indicates

audio by dallas johnson
illistration by dover publishing
programing and animation by caleb johnston


Anyone know any more about these folks with the slightly different last names? Maybe it's student work?
posted by Richard Daly at 5:53 PM on February 19, 2007

Man... I sucked at that game...
posted by sleevener at 5:56 PM on February 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

Maybe it's student work?
heehee, Caleb Johnston.
posted by tellurian at 6:14 PM on February 19, 2007

my safari ate it on the fourth screen...
posted by dontoine at 6:27 PM on February 19, 2007

not a huge fan of the "find the hotspot"-ness of it, but the animations were neat.
posted by juv3nal at 6:54 PM on February 19, 2007

I hope this isn't some sort of viral campaign. That would spoil it utterly.
posted by Jilder at 7:04 PM on February 19, 2007

I first read the post as "...very strange and very lonely." I wonder if that influenced my experience of it. Anyway, good find, thanks for posting.
posted by sleevener at 7:35 PM on February 19, 2007

Sleevener, I read the same, but corrected myself before clicking. And am now reluctant to. Perhaps I should.
posted by motty at 7:41 PM on February 19, 2007

I don't know if it's art, but I like it.
-The Joker
posted by inconsequentialist at 8:13 PM on February 19, 2007

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Great, guys. You broke art.
posted by c13 at 8:38 PM on February 19, 2007

infected, homage to Max Ernst, I think. Neato.
posted by mwhybark at 8:40 PM on February 19, 2007

Avoid figurative or obscure language. Since the point of a definition is to explain the meaning of a term to someone who is unfamiliar with its proper application, the use of language that doesn't help such a person learn how to apply the term is pointless. Thus, "happiness is a warm puppy" may be a lovely thought, but it is a lousy definition.

I find it not lovely.
posted by wallstreet1929 at 8:45 PM on February 19, 2007

Exquisite! Enjoyed that so much.

A little more about this little fantastic visual gem by Caleb Johnston.
posted by nickyskye at 8:48 PM on February 19, 2007

..what the hell was that all about? Why'd I just have to click on monochromatic lobsters two dozen times to finish the stupid thing? Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time didn't make me click so much... well come to think of it, it did, but I had a hell of a lot more fun back then.

Public domain images... see this is what i mean. If we actually had more stuff in the public domain, we could make more useless crap like this.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:03 PM on February 19, 2007

I liked it, very evocative. Thanks.
posted by mediareport at 9:19 PM on February 19, 2007

I got bored, but I looked at it in the morning with my caffeine quota filled.
posted by Goofyy at 10:56 PM on February 19, 2007

Interesting. Very similar to the stuff on the White Stripes web site circa their last album, Get Behind Me Satan.

(yeah, I like the Stripes - you kids with your hipster art and hipster music can piss off).
posted by rmm at 11:13 PM on February 19, 2007

(yeah, I like the Stripes - you kids with your hipster art and hipster music can piss off).

Heck, I thought the Stripes was hipster stuff. God, I'm out of touch with the kids...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:56 AM on February 20, 2007

Oh, and it would seem that MetaFilter is abandoning its legendary knee-jerk Flash-hating ways: I would've expected more snarkyness in the comments here. (Maybe the 'Flash-is-beneath-me' crowd just doesn't have time/energy for the hate anymore?)
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:01 AM on February 20, 2007

Flash-is-beneath-me.

I kid. I like it bunches.
posted by gummi at 4:40 AM on February 20, 2007

Well, for art's sake!
posted by pracowity at 5:44 AM on February 20, 2007

I really love stuff like this - visually compelling breaks from reality. I'm going to post an AskMe asking for more.

I don't hate it at all, nor do I find it useless. That's probably connected to how I think art in general is not useless.

Thanks!
posted by Miko at 7:26 AM on February 20, 2007

It's pretty-BUT IS IT ART?
posted by Citizen Premier at 10:01 AM on February 20, 2007

QUICK, SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME LSD

(This is really, really good)
posted by IronLizard at 11:06 AM on February 20, 2007

Owls are assholes.
posted by peep at 1:03 PM on February 20, 2007