VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights: after the break.

While driving down to the Maker Faire (roughly 10 hour trip), I babbled at my girlfriend about various VidHero ideas. At some point she brought up how the larynx had evolved not to affect pitch, but to help us keep our breath contained, so we could expel poop and babies. I found this to be excellent secretive science. She was tired, and not sure it was the larynx exactly, and conceded that some crazy teacher had babbled about it once years ago.

So I made a note (in the dark, at 80 mph) and looked it up when we got back. And wondered how to make a joke out of it…

In the end: Rather than go funny, i ended up trying to go for a “wikipedia says” sort of educational thing. I have often thought that you could base a whole comedy act around the simple idea of telling interesting science and history stories.
But just dropping science and definitions sucked (suprise!), so I side stepped, and mixed in just enough camera pun bullshit for it to be confusing (Does anyone even know what Berthing means in this day and age?)
I picture this approach like a sad iron chef presenting his rushed dishes to the judges, and when they start to point out all the faults : BOOM! He shoots sparkling firecrackers from his fingers! And they’re so shell shocked that the food seems edible. I wish this was a practice in more restaurants. Or just in general, whenever anyone is forced to endure the opinions of others. Is this all the time?

Anywho. Graphically, i noodled around with the frown frame, just to satisfy my personal rule of doing at least one new thing graphically (there never seems to be enough time for fully fledged creation of new art for each frame). And I plopped in a background fade from left to right, just because I keep telling myself I should start transitioning towards at least a minimal background setting. To make the strips less abstract/sparse.

I also keep telling myself I should try to incorporate more of an ongoing story, so you (dear reader *smooch*), won’t be bored to tears by two talking heads each week.

But.

Time.

…

Butt time. Yes.