March 16, 2004

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Last year, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries released the poem(?) Operation Nukorea, a harrowing tale about a North Korean invasion of South Korea. It was discussed on Metafilter last April. In response, possibly, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries have now released Metablast, turning the thread into poetry, or art, or both. (Discussed here, to continue the metafiltering). (via Metafilter)

Both pieces are in Flash, and are about 25 minutes long. Their other pieces - or at least the ones that I've watched - are excellent, too. In an article about Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries their work is described as: a simple technique that cuts across the lines separating digital animation, motion graphics, experimental video, i-movies, and e-poetry. To them it's Web art.

posted by dng 20 years ago
  • I was skeptical about her work the first time I saw it. I don't particuarly go in for really bizarre art formats usually, unless it's supposed to be funny. But this stuff is great and, really, quite moving.
  • Clever, if seizure-inducing. Maybe I need a monitor with better refresh rates?
  • It's so much fun to imagine one's own annihilation. Even more fun when it's got a tinkly-jazz soundtrack.
  • Her medium causes headaches. All that high saturation white, flash between black and white, little visual relief between character and edge of window, MTV timing, characters jumping around on window. Couldn't finish it (METABLAST). Maybe I'll put on sunglasses and try again someday.
  • Never before has MetaFilter been so difficult to read.
  • I really like Chang's stuff. It's jazzy; it's exciting; it's totally recognizable and very swooft. That said, I'm glad not everybody's doing this. One Chang is enough.
  • One of her poems, the one about "the struggle continues" helped me communicate my feelings to a woman I had never met, who was living abroad at the time. She moved back to the states, we drove across the country together, and dated for two years before breaking up right after Valentine's day a month ago. It was a good poem.
  • I saw this posted on MeFi, and wrote to her but never got a response. Anyone have an idea why she changed `adamgreenfield' to `joshwhitehouse' but left everyone else's handle the same? Just been bugging me.
  • It might well be because that is his actual name, whereas the others are just nicknames. And he's fairly well known in web circles, I think( a quick google search suggests so: v-2, interview). SO maybe she didn't want to offend him. I don't know to be honest.
  • I might also consider the very specific connotation carried by the words "white house" in the U.S. and worldwide; something tells me that might have had something to do with Young-Hae's choice. Something like "John Blackwood," or "Dan Bluespruce" would have lacked that added significance.
  • I hadn't thought of that, babywannasofa. I suspect you're right.
  • Oooh, I got an e-mail back from YHCHI: Quotha: ``> - Why was `adamgreenfield' changed to `joshwhitehouse'? ``- We thought it was the right thing to do, considering how the discussion turns out.''