Dude, 88 Constellations was so awesome. I, for one, being the weirdo (and the Gemini!) that I am, loved the creepy twin image and all the other creepy weird stuff that was going on with this work. The first constellation I clicked on was the one about suicides, and I knew from then on that the whole thing was bound to be an adventure. I really liked how everything was set up and the way that each of the audio bits for the constellations was full of cool facts about all this seemingly random stuff that not a lot of people probably know. I knew about Chaplin's work for The Great Dictator, but I didn't know he was pissed at Hitler for having 'stolen' his mustache. Ha. I mainly went through just clicking on random constellations, sometimes picking certain ones to listen to first based on their names or what the subtitles were. I loved how interactive the whole thing was and how all of the subtlety and the symbolism meshed together to create something so complex and yet so simple in a lot of ways, because for us as the audience we just have to click, sit back, and listen... and probably be influenced in some way. I know I certainly was. This type of collage serves to really make you think, or at least to present something that made others think. The connections, as others have said before, are endless and may seem a bit sporadic, but I think it would be so much fun to try and create something like this, no matter how much time it may take to put it all together and try to figure out some sort of cohesive 'order'. It's kind of mysterious, in a way, and I think that adds to the elements of the uncanny that were so heavy in the piece. Cool. Now, can we do something like this?
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