VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

Heh. This post . eh. wellllllll, there’s a process by which these conceptual humor “mistakes” happen.

This one started out as “the guys see all manner of icicles, ice, and snow, and just scream in fear”. Roommate Ian’s idea, kinda, last night. more so that i’m not describing his idea properly. not that i’m claiming it was my idea and not his idea. i’m not clear whose ideas are in the belongings to whom. I think Ian’s idea was just to represent my fear of driving in the snow. it seemed funny last night.

but tonight, I couldn’t recapture why it seemed funny. So i thought i should do a strip about snow flakes. and how pretty they are. and pretty how they cover everything. then i thought i could do some sort of bullshitty poetry captions, but contrast them with viddy pointing with anger at a snowflake. perhaps preparing to kill it. perhaps crushing it in his fist in the final frame.

then i jotted down what’s in the strip now. and it seemed to make a lot of sense to me. I thought i’d just put a humorous photo of some car crash in the final frame, to pull the rug out from under the serious thought process. to show that snow kinda sucks. I thought the tire treads said it better, by being more ambiguous and personal. i look at those tire treads and see car accidents happing all over the place, off camera.

which struck me as kind of cosmic. the things happening outside of your perception, which still end up in your mind’s eye. … maybe i should look up mind’s eye and make sure i’m using the proper definition of the concept.

so i went in and added text on the last two frames to try and reinforce what i thought they were saying. without being too distracting. it’s not that i want you to read and think about them, as if they were in any way contrasting with the image beneath them. it’s more that they are subtely explaining and enhancing the image, if you bother to scrutinize them. i tried to make the third frame relaxing and obvious. like a narrator. and tried to make the fourth frame almost imperceptable, but kind of scary. left the K hanging out so it wouldn’t be too easy to totally overlook the text. hmmf. did it work? 

I hope these last two frames “worked” and communicated something to you. and if not, lets pretend.