Three Websites.

Upon stumbling upon these websites I became quite partial and intrigued with the three I decided to write about. They're both simplistic and conceptual, and the audience is interactive with the piece in showing the progression of time.

Their Circular Life.

In "Their Circular Life", there's a presentation of five different scenes, all with a dial underneath the plane that the photo is presented in, and the audience 'becomes the observer' by moving the dial clockwise as actions in the photo proceeds and the sequences in the photo go from day to light; cars driving by; people lurking; water moving...and so on and so forth. Each photo sequenced together was obviously taken with a tripod, so it almost makes you wonder what the participants of each scene was thinking. However, each photo is presented at very exceptional quality, delivering extravagent photos that capture each moment of the day passing.


The Halcyon Hours.

"The Halcyon Hours" was a seemingly interesting website to look at, a simple concept again with the day passing, as seen in "Their Circular Life", but instead of a dial, there's a little bar underneath the window [which displays the time of day] and the bar portrays the timeline. On each significant point on the timeline, there's a little ornate mark above the line for the times 7am, 9am, 2pm, 4pm, 8pm, and 9pm. Upon scrolling on the timeline to the appropriate time, a little scene pops up just depicting an event that would happen around that time, such as sleeping...or waking up. I thought each scene was somber and fit well for each time, effectively impacting the progression of time as a whole.

Animator vs. Animation.

"Animator vs.Animation" is probably the most clever executions of the irony of your computer program actually fighting back after being manually controlled and forced to do everything underneath at the touch of your fingertips. I would imagine this piece took an immense amount of time and dedication, and it shows, since Flash is such a complex piece of software; but overall I believe it's just the humor and irony that catches my attention the most. Once again, another simple approach...it's not a full on cartoon character that's drawn vividly and with extreme expression, it's just a plain stick figure. As for representation of time, whether it's was the artist's intention or not, I think it's almost looking into the future that if our technology got so advanced, it would fight back against us within a matter of time, creating our own enemy. Even though I may be way off topic, that's a message I grab from it.