it's pretty and it tinkles

July 4, 2003 9:27 PM

I'm not precisely sure what's going on here, but it's pretty, and it tinkles. [note: flash]
posted by crunchland (25 comments total)

(blatantly swiped from amberglow.)
posted by crunchland at 9:30 PM on July 4, 2003

actually, i swiped it from juju! : >

it's fun tho, no?
posted by amberglow at 9:35 PM on July 4, 2003

I love this. Kind of reminds me of the PS2 Game Rez
posted by Dreamghost at 9:44 PM on July 4, 2003

This is the first link I visited this morning - what a beautiful way to wake up. My heartfelt thanks to the crunch/amber/juju dream team!
posted by taz at 11:24 PM on July 4, 2003

i think i just spent 20 minutes on that. beautiful.

oh and click past the japanese text page. for a while i was thinking you were all going gaga over a 5 second flash intro.
posted by rhyax at 11:41 PM on July 4, 2003

Holy crap, and every time you click the mouse, it turns into something else. I think I'm in love.
posted by todds at 12:02 AM on July 5, 2003

Wow. Sweet. Much bettter than my neighbor's fireworks!
posted by tr33hggr at 12:07 AM on July 5, 2003

oooh. there's more.

This is lovely, especially the 'cave'. (Move the little gates around to create a soundscape.)
posted by taz at 1:26 AM on July 5, 2003

i'd seen the original link way before, but didn't know there were others. nice catch, taz.
posted by juv3nal at 2:13 AM on July 5, 2003

Thank you crunchland!
Thank you amberglow!
Thank you madamjujujive!
And thank you taz!
I think my blood pressure has dropped 20 points since I started playing with these things. (and that's good)
posted by wendell at 2:21 AM on July 5, 2003

[This is fun]
posted by DBAPaul at 6:30 AM on July 5, 2003

Great link...

Does the music make anyone else think of Mr. Rogers?

Maybe it's just me...
posted by jpburns at 7:18 AM on July 5, 2003

brilliant. made me want to program again (i don't mean anything like this, just fired me with enthusiasm for doing something new...)
posted by andrew cooke at 7:48 AM on July 5, 2003

wa-a-a-a-ay cool, as I believe the youth are saying these days.
posted by dash_slot- at 8:14 AM on July 5, 2003

This is unimaginably beautiful. I've seen a lot of things on the net, but this, I think is the first one that's ever touched me like real world art. Some of them made me laugh, some of them nearly made me cry.

I wish I could read the text.

In Ottawa, there's a sort of real life spacial version of this, next to their city hall (at least, I think that's what that building is). You're walking along a perfectly normal path, and all of a sudden, a tinkle of musical notes. There are sensors on the sides of the path, and as you move amongst them, they generate the notes.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:37 AM on July 5, 2003

wow....just....wow.

and dash_slot-, i think it's 'wiiiiicked cool', although i could be off a generation or two ;)
posted by poopy at 8:59 AM on July 5, 2003

Does the music make anyone else think of Mr. Rogers?

I'm thinking more like Sun Ra.
posted by euphorb at 11:30 AM on July 5, 2003

Well I thought it was fabulous, but I showed it to my mate Dave and he said "next time just send me some decent pr0n, OK ?". Dave is a philistine I'm afraid.

Thanks for the link. If you hadn't realised it works in the background behind whatever other windows you have open so you can surf to pretty music. Which is nice.
posted by squealy at 12:13 PM on July 5, 2003

There are 24 different animations--you control them by waving your mouse around, and advance from one to the next by clicking. They have names like "gravitation," "milky way," "reaction," etc.
posted by adamrice at 2:29 PM on July 5, 2003

Beautiful! I had no idea Shockwave could produce those wonderous effects.
posted by Down10 at 6:28 PM on July 5, 2003

Oh... I thought you said it was pretty and it tickles. Not what I was expecting, but pretty good anyway.
posted by Samsonov14 at 12:17 AM on July 6, 2003

Ooooooh!
Aaaaaah!!
posted by carter at 7:30 AM on July 6, 2003

Hey if I leave the Flash window open in the background the sounds are still generated when I move the cursor over the window in front ...
posted by carter at 7:48 AM on July 6, 2003

Hey! The sounds continue to happen when I move the cursor, no matter what app I'm in! Kinda makes word processing fun (although it will probably drive me nuts after a while ...).
posted by carter at 7:53 AM on July 6, 2003

Oooops. Before I got so excited, I guess I shoulda read squealy's comment first. Okay, I'll stop posting now.
posted by carter at 7:58 AM on July 6, 2003