Sums it up rather nicely

I'm nearing the completion of the latest version of my animation. In my search for viable text, I found this little quote on some guy's blog that I believe sums up my project:

"A blog is a contradiction. It’s a private space for private thoughts that is also exposed to the universe. While we value our privacy, we love to see that visit counter go up."

I think I'm going to open the animation with that quote.

-Ethan Guillemette

It's about...

It's about what we put on the internet and why.

Updated Version and Questions Over Display

Here's an updated version of the animation. I took out the part that seemed to have negative reception across the board (the one with the Lord of the Rings reference).

Animation

I didn't get a good consensus among the faculty as to how best to display it. With my mentor critique, Susan suggested using interactive user-imput to control the animation (and have it projected). Bob and Susan thought that it was best to be lost without any control over the speed, and for the interaction to be passive. Robert thought it should be kept small and precious and hung on the wall so that it would draw people in. Karen thought that something small could be easily ignored, and it would be best projected.

I'm anxious to here your imput. For those of you who saw it projected, do you think it works better displayed on a nice computer screen? The colors do seem to be sharper. On the other hand, projected it has an unexpected but interesting interplay with the audience's shadows. Because the background of the animation is black, it creates some neat negative space (along with some form of interaction).

So yeah, I'm pretty much stumped.