Jan 31st, 2007
Meanderings
Thanks to a friend who was working as a research scientist at HP in Palo Alto and had very good connections in the tech-geek community, I was lucky enough to get a Gmail account shortly after the beta was opened. (This was in the days when you had to be invited by a current Gmail user, and some unscrupulous folks were actually selling Gmail invitations on eBay for scads of money! Gah…) I don’t put much stock in Google-as-Big-Brother paranoia (after all, keep in mind that nothing of an especially sensitive nature should be sent via e-mail, regardless of what client you’re using) and think that Gmail is in the same category of Great Things as pirate music for kids. I used to be a hardcore Yahoo user but abandoned that account for personal mail once it got all spamified. But I still use it for Internet orders and website registrations, so I check in on it every once in a while.
I popped into Yahoo today and found a link to this amazing video (it has music, so be sure your sound is on):
Yes, that’s right: it’s a grown-up playing in a sandbox. Obviously, she’s moved way beyond the shovel-and-pail techniques employed by toddlers. It’s neat to see how one image unpredictably segues into another. I didn’t spot an overarching narrative theme here (maybe “Happy, peaceful world”?), though, and the lack of narrative means that something like this won’t really keep my interest for long periods of time. (Pretty pictures are nice, but I do want a story that goes somewhere.) The length of this video is just right for me.
Like it? Want to see more? Check out the artist’s website.
Yeah, Qwest has already snapped up the idea (and I’m guessing the artist?) for some of its commercials!
http://www.qwest.com/business/
I think it’s really neat stuff, but I agree, it can get rather boring after a certain point. I’m so impressed by how she can go so quickly through all of these images, though! I’d imagine all I’d manage would be a few squiggles before I got frustrated with the whole thing. :)