[snowglobe] (image-heavy)
With each shake of the globe, a new scene is revealed; whether you see only one or all of these is up to you and how long you intend to keep looking.
INSIDE YAKO'S MIND
A surreal vision of various items of food floating around a dark, empty space. Surely this can't be a real place? Better shake the globe again.
FUNERALS
Mourners in dark suits gather in cramped rooms with flowers wreathed around a picture of the deceased; another shake of the globe has the scene alter subtly, with different mourners and a different picture. Shake it one more time and the mourners disappear, leaving behind a single plate with a half-eaten cake and a room empty except for burning incense and the picture of a man half-grinning out of the globe.
CRIME SCENES
Another shake of the globe shows first a man who's been stabbed, face twisted not in pain but in astonishment, and he's recognizable-- even in death-- as the same man one of the funerals was held for. The scene of the crime appears to be a study, littered with books and rulers; there's a family picture on the desk, and if one squints closely one can make out the face of a much younger Yako.
With the next shake, the flakes in the snowglobe swirl, and the dead body is replaced by another, though who the victim was can't be distinguished because his face is a bloody mess-- the splatter on the ground to the side suggests he's been shot in the head. This death appears to have taken place in an abandoned warehouse. The body seems small and crumpled in the vast emptiness of the bare floor, and the blood almost painfully bright.
BATTLESHIP
The ship appears to be some kind of aircraft carrier-- clearly a warship, judging by the copious amounts of visible artillery. Another shake and the scene shifts to the inside, where the ship's officers stand dead-eyed and slack-jawed at their stations, moving in a robotic parody of life.
The last scene is in what appears to be a wrecked control room, littered with broken glass from a shattered window: a large monitor attached to an even more complicated array of machines behind it flashes with a warning, the single word on its screen legible even now:
Deleted
KIDNAPPED
It's a dark room with a single chair, and the handcuffs attached to it dangle loose. There's a bit of blood spattered around-- the source appears to be a decapitated gorilla in one corner-- as well as, inexplicably, a platterful of dead frogs.
ON THE ROAD
Scenes of travel at various points in time: everywhere from Tokyo to Mexico and all the airports in between, on the back of a truck or viewed from the height of a mountain. Sometimes the places are crowded with people and sometimes not, but the scenery always seems to flash by quickly, as though viewed from the eyes of someone perpetually in motion.
INSIDE YAKO'S MIND
A surreal vision of various items of food floating around a dark, empty space. Surely this can't be a real place? Better shake the globe again.
FUNERALS
Mourners in dark suits gather in cramped rooms with flowers wreathed around a picture of the deceased; another shake of the globe has the scene alter subtly, with different mourners and a different picture. Shake it one more time and the mourners disappear, leaving behind a single plate with a half-eaten cake and a room empty except for burning incense and the picture of a man half-grinning out of the globe.
CRIME SCENES
Another shake of the globe shows first a man who's been stabbed, face twisted not in pain but in astonishment, and he's recognizable-- even in death-- as the same man one of the funerals was held for. The scene of the crime appears to be a study, littered with books and rulers; there's a family picture on the desk, and if one squints closely one can make out the face of a much younger Yako.
With the next shake, the flakes in the snowglobe swirl, and the dead body is replaced by another, though who the victim was can't be distinguished because his face is a bloody mess-- the splatter on the ground to the side suggests he's been shot in the head. This death appears to have taken place in an abandoned warehouse. The body seems small and crumpled in the vast emptiness of the bare floor, and the blood almost painfully bright.
BATTLESHIP
The ship appears to be some kind of aircraft carrier-- clearly a warship, judging by the copious amounts of visible artillery. Another shake and the scene shifts to the inside, where the ship's officers stand dead-eyed and slack-jawed at their stations, moving in a robotic parody of life.
The last scene is in what appears to be a wrecked control room, littered with broken glass from a shattered window: a large monitor attached to an even more complicated array of machines behind it flashes with a warning, the single word on its screen legible even now:
Deleted
KIDNAPPED
It's a dark room with a single chair, and the handcuffs attached to it dangle loose. There's a bit of blood spattered around-- the source appears to be a decapitated gorilla in one corner-- as well as, inexplicably, a platterful of dead frogs.
ON THE ROAD
Scenes of travel at various points in time: everywhere from Tokyo to Mexico and all the airports in between, on the back of a truck or viewed from the height of a mountain. Sometimes the places are crowded with people and sometimes not, but the scenery always seems to flash by quickly, as though viewed from the eyes of someone perpetually in motion.