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March 28, 2006

Mercury's Done It Again...

Mercury (the car-maker, not the planet) has a new Web-Media-Thing.

I subjected both my undergrads and my grad students last semester to the last Mercury Web-Media-Thing, Meet the Lucky Ones, a fragmented tangle of story lines told through interactive tableaux and 50 separate video clips. It's wild. I highly recommend you check it out.

Now we've got The Neverything, a much more linear work, though still featuring something like the Lucky Ones' interactive tableaux.

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The Neverything seems to be a cross between a Cohen Brothers-esque exploration of gently odd characters and a Charlie Kaufman-esque high-concept idea.

Only clips 1-5 are up now, with new ones promised each week, so you're getting in at the ground level. Check it out.

Posted by reparent at March 28, 2006 10:03 AM

Comments

Jelly-filled Frosted Sugar Bumps? Clearly a reference to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, the fuel of Calvin's saturday mornings. Are there parallels between the realness of stuffed Hobbes and fictional Humkin?

Posted by: Liam at April 2, 2006 4:02 PM

Hmm... good question. I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. The fifth episode does seem to indicate that there are some real differences between the two brothers.

I'd guess (and there are 2 new episodes to watch, so check back for a longer post discussing them early next week), that if one of the two brothers were actually imaginary, however, it would be Mopekey.

But we'll see. (I'm starting to really like the phrase "actually imaginary." Neat.)

Posted by: Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 2, 2006 6:38 PM

Favorite bit so far is early on, in #2, when Humkin & Mopkey's pirate game foreshadows the "kill Humkin" argument in the parallel film. I'm surprised the two films only overlap in very small snippets.

Not sure how I feel about exploring the animated boat. The perspective shift is clumsy and queasy-making, but it is fun when a toy comes alive and then does something creepy (more Calvin & Hobbes?). The little plastic boat happily bobs on carpet-waves, and then sinks. Fun.

Posted by: Liam at April 9, 2006 5:20 PM