Today I came across a vision of a tagged world. Tags are all the rage of course. In the parlance of the webby hive, they subvert hierarchies, they describe the world in their messy way, they democratize description, they create a folksonomy. Blah, blah, blah. It's hard to care about that kind of an abstraction for very long. When can I just write something, highlight some words, and assign them to be important to my photo, blog posts, etc?
So, technology frustrates. How about a simple story of a boy and a girl and a rabbit, told in pictures and words? Or is it such a simple story? Please, have a read through the storyboards of the story of Rabbit, by Run Wrake. What at first appears a simple child's story quickly develops into a deeper morality tale. I don't want to say too much about my own reaction to the story yet. I'd like to hear what you have to say, in the comments, please. Tomorrow, I'll tell you some of what I think.
Oh, and if you have Windows XP and Media Player 10 running on your machine, you can even watch Rabbit. Let me know how it goes.
Posted by James Sherrett at March 13, 2006 06:58 PMOkay, I thought it was pretty disturbed, but I think the story might have had to go along with the images available. Not sure.
Anyways, it was weird as hell.
Who made it, and why?