{"id":1145,"date":"2009-04-06T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-04-06T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T12:09:22","slug":"art-bees-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/art-bees-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"Art. Bees. Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waxweb<\/a> had totally passed me by. It’s an online movie experiment that’s going on twenty years old. Most people didn’t know Internet from a hole in the ground when this was made, and it is still really good. <\/p>\n

To speak with today’s terms, there’s a Matthew Barney + Lost feeling to the story of Jacob Maker as the beekeeper who works on flight simulators. I haven’t watched the whole thing, but there’s a hypertextual element to it (make your own adventure<\/em> multiple choice type of thing) as well as a nonchalant appropriation of footage.<\/p>\n

The everyday feeling of what is taking place makes it all seem so much more surreal but plausible \u2013 no-one would fake<\/em> something this improbable. Atonal sounds help to reinforce the sense of unease and apprehension.<\/p>\n

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The Playstation and 3DO game Psychic Detective comes to mind as I’m watching Waxweb. It was a relative early attempt at interactive storytelling, and I was enthralled with it despite having to switch between a bunch of cd-s all the time. This link<\/a> gives an inkling of how it might look, although the gameplay isn’t very obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waxweb had totally passed me by. It’s an online movie experiment that’s going on twenty years old. Most people didn’t know Internet from a hole in the ground when this was made, and it is still really good. To speak with today’s terms, there’s a Matthew Barney + Lost feeling to the story of Jacob … Continue reading Art. Bees. Wax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1888,682,681,679,680,1887],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found","tag-art","tag-bees","tag-interaction","tag-internet","tag-storytelling","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}