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Feb 16, 2005 07:13

A couple of passing thoughts:

1) There's no way I'm going to remotely attempt this on my own unless/until the Parks get built, but... liquid_memories and I stumbled into that Eerie Puzzlebox Synchronicity again, and both apparently had the idea of stashing a big box store, an OfficeMax or something, in the Mess and seeing how it would fit into the local ( Read more... )

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liquid_memories February 16 2005, 13:01:45 UTC

Glee! Synchronicity is what it's /all/ about! Those subversive Holotrons, trying to restart commercialism. Those bastards! We don't need no stinkin' merchandise and....

....ooooh...what is that? That idea...it's the latest model concept. I've got to have it.

(Shades of Rudy Rucker's Realware--where after a post-scarcity society was just being formed and everything could be copied, it was intellectual property that became the new currency.)

Riffing at 5 in the morning and having to work the next day at 1:30 PM gives one some of the best crazy ideas.

cobaltie February 16 2005, 13:07:25 UTC

Or the MeMePlex...except products not so overtly marketed as memes, but objects that ARE memes. Isn't that what brand-name commercialism IS?

Okay, I'm not going off the deep end into mocking social commentary. Yet.

siege February 16 2005, 19:27:38 UTC

And yet, it fits so well...

shatterstripes February 16 2005, 14:33:51 UTC

two.

Yeah. It's always more than just what happens in realtime the muck, now. Has been for a while. There's the wiki, there's little vignettes in LJ, there's half-IC-half-OOC exchanges of comments, there's scrawled-out drawings riffing on things... Is it canon? Is it not? Does it quite matter?

I mean, do you want to know what's on the other side of the page that drawing was on, just before it? A nearly empty page, with a tiny drawing of me down in one corner looking gloomy and depressed. Drawing the one I sent you made me smile. And feel better.

Puzzlebox has always been sprawling. Someone dreamed about it just from reading some of my log posts.

Beyond MUCK. anonymous February 16 2005, 16:02:04 UTC

This is where PBX starts to really take on life as other forms of media. Currently beyond the MUCK, it's pictures, the WIKI and the LJ. I can imagine at some point we might actually see a series of outright pieces of serial fiction not unlike what happened with "Hatching Day" but on a greater magnitude.

I'm still kicking around the idea of compilation-style Puzzlebox comic-book (probably titled something more distinctive than PBX so it doesn't disappear on a web-search for it) that basically would consist of various artists and various stories (or just artful vignettes) in deliberately different styles, some traditional and some very deliberately cryptic. Is it art? Is it propaganda? Is there a continuity? That's probably where the puzzle really comes in.

Re: Beyond MUCK. siege February 16 2005, 19:29:23 UTC

"Fruit of the Cube Tree"

Re: Beyond MUCK. cobaltie February 16 2005, 20:45:13 UTC

And THAT would be such a lovely artbomb.

Re: Beyond MUCK. trilogeebird February 17 2005, 23:38:39 UTC

I've thought about doing one of those.

I have character designs sitting around. I have some pending scripts, with panels to the effect of "Try to depict everything in this. It should be moody, and try not to include blue, though it's alright if you do." They're in a very raw format, being only in my head.

I'd love to try to do something like that. Each person give 24 pages, and throw together at least 6 24-page works.

Even if each artist does 24 1-page vignettes.