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Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping?
Fortran IV writes "Randall Munroe's xkcd webcomic has done some odd things before, but #1190, 'Time,' is something special. It's a time-lapse movie of two people building a sandcastle that's been updating just once an hour (twice an hour in the beginning) for well over a month (since March 25th), and after over a thousand frames shows no sign of ending; in a few days the number of frames will surpass the total number of xkcd comics. It's been mentioned in The Economist. Some of its readers have called it the One True Comic; others have called it a MMONS (Massively Multiplayer Online Nerd Sniping). It's sparked its own wiki, its own jargon (Timewaiters, newpix, Blitzgirling), and a thread on the xkcd user forum that runs to over 20,000 posts from 1100 distinct posters. Is 'Time' a fascinating work of art, a deep sociological experiment — or the longest-running shaggy-dog joke in history? Randall Munroe's not saying."
I looked at it. Big black flat space with two stick figures.
You got stick figures? All I get is the word "TIME" all alone by itself. Profound, or hungover?
No Javascript.
http://xkcd.com/1190/
Are the frames worth any money? Is there any way I mine my own and sell them?
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality
So... it's best to smoke up before you look at it? Got it.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Finally some use for my LCD picture frame.
Perhaps it's done, I saw the same nothing you did. Other pages have a comic. I guess this one bowed and drew the curtain. /. Little kids draw stick figures as representations for communication of thoughts they cannot express, or as a utility, not so much art. So in a Warhol fashion, one needs to look beyond that, to the space where a comic was purported to exist. Like a star gone to black hole, it carries only memories of its existence embedded in any observers. So we can see a juxtaposition of relativity, repeated in the remembered grains of sand forming the castle, bringing to mind ; time as observed through the sands of an hourglass, thus are the days of our lives. An apocalyptic work, this should be displayed at the mens room in the Louvre on a very old computer which will automatically generate an hourglass when refreshed giving the viewer time to see the complexity of artists intent. Dead blind genius.
The art is; the page hits this link is generating from a link on
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
I prefer something less frantic, like: http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment.
Javascript's turned on. Firefox/Iceweasel on Debian wheezy. Refreshed, now I see two miniscule stick figures on a black shoreline looking out over water(?) under a white sky. Zzzzz ...
Wait for it...
... now I see two miniscule stick figures on a black shoreline looking out over water(?) under a white sky. Zzzzz ...
I guess I spoke too soon. Now "he" has dropped his pack and is walking down to the water's edge(?).
Where's all the explosions and car chases, blood/gore/guts? And sex? Comedy? Drama? Hello?
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Like molasses through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Art escapes all attempts to define it. enjoy being wrong.
...your onus is showing.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens