Made out of people

That nifty isometric infographics look

Matt Jones reminds me of the nifty Royksopp video Remind Me, in which an ordinary day is transformed into 80's style infographics. Beautiful stuff...

The same directors have apparently started a slick advertising campaign for a Canadian power company.

I wonder if one could generate such things interactively--my own displays look so dull in comparison!

He and others tie it to The Child by Alex Gopher and the rather disturbing Plaid:Itsu .

I'll throw in a reference to Jon Haddock's Isometric Screenshots . A disturbing and fascinating look at photographs and movie scenes you know well, except in SIMS-like isometric views.

I actually saw these on exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum's "Cyborg Manifesto" show. I stopped to listen to an elderly docent explaining the exhibit. A lively debate had started between the two of the visitors about whether these were photographs or paintings. ("But look! They're all from above, at the same strange angle!") ("Yes, it took quite an archivist to get all these shots!") The docent was pretty sure they were paintings, and thought that the point was that things look different from above.

No one was making headway.

I tried to explain that these were a parody of computer games, which allow the user to direct a character through scenarios--including violent ones. I got a lot of blank stares. This was not an audience that was ok with the concept of computer games, much less with parodies of them.

How do you get from Pong to this?