Archive for the ‘Mail Adventures’ Category

Powerful Magics

Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Andrew

Context:

Content:

Analysis:

Dear God, he’s finally done it. This is a film steeped so heav­ily in self-referential in-jokes that even though it’s appar­ently (and dis­turbingly) about me, I can’t under­stand it. It is pos­si­ble that this is no longer a film, but some dif­fer­ent and hereto­fore undis­cov­ered form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. I feel as though I am watch­ing the end of 2001 : A Space Odyssey for the first time, on a screen the size of the uni­verse itself.

This is some of the most aston­ish­ing edit­ing I’ve ever seen to come out of Vvinni’s mind, and I think we can safely say that as this project con­tin­ues, the dis­patches become smarter, bet­ter and more com­plex. Vvinni here demon­strates an uncanny abil­ity to parse and decon­struct my pre­vi­ous mes­sage, all while build­ing it into a post-post-postmodern pho­to­graph on the back of a milk car­ton. The epi­logue that labels me “miss­ing” is par­tic­u­larly chill­ing, and leaves me feel­ing as though I actu­ally have gone miss­ing under mys­te­ri­ous circumstances.

I fear I may have been bested here, I’m not sure if I’m capa­ble of craft­ing an ade­quate response, but I will try. Speaking strate­gi­cally, my pre­vi­ous dis­patches have been an attempt to ape Vvinni’s style and beat him at his own game. It’s obvi­ous that he is capa­ble on that front beyond my wildest imag­i­na­tion, and so per­haps it is time to return to my old friends, min­i­mal­ism and nar­ra­tive. We shall see what comes next.

Additional Context:


Happy Birthday, Murderer!

Monday, December 21st, 2009 by Andrew

Somewhere in sub­ur­ban Colorado last week, a per­son received a pack­age reek­ing of onion. Everything was going accord­ing to plan.

To recap: First this hap­pened, then this hap­pened, then this and this happened.

Thanks to Vvinni, you can see exactly what hap­pened when that onion-scented box was opened, embed­ded below:

And here, friends, for the first time, I am proud to present what was on that tape:

This is not over, friends. Sinister insin­u­a­tions and care­less threats have been made. Foul deeds are afoot. The Tape will travel again.

A mysterious package

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by Andrew

UPDATE: Vvinni has posted a detailed analy­sis of his process in cre­at­ing In Fridge on his blog. See it here!

Two days ago I came home from class to dis­cover a mys­te­ri­ous brown pack­age on my bed. It was addressed to me, from Vvinni*, and some­how it made its way into my bed­room with­out my knowl­edge or approval. A bomb, I hope? Fortunately, I was wrong.

The mysterious package

I let it sit for a few hours and absorb the essence of my “bed­room” (while wait­ing to see if it would explode), then I zipped off and did a quick tele­vi­sion inter­view. When I returned, how­ever, I knew it would be my duty to open, cat­a­log and dis­sect the con­tents of the box. And that is what I did. Below you can watch along as I pick it apart: (more…)

I Got the Poops

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 by Andrew

Last spring, one of my hard drive enclo­sures died. Not the drive itself, you’ll be happy to hear; just the enclo­sure. So I took a screw­driver to it, cracked it open, took the drive out and installed it inside my computer.

Empty hard drive enclosure

That’s not the story. The story involves the non-functional alu­minum case I was left with, which sat around my apart­ment for weeks under the detri­tus, plead­ing for a pur­pose in life. One day I opened it up and looked inside. My thoughts turned to heavy-duty ship­ping con­tain­ers and I started won­der­ing what I could put in it. Would a DVD fit? Nope, the enclo­sure was long and nar­row. But you know… a VHS tape would fit in there just about per­fectly. And thus a weekend-long odyssey began. (more…)