Comments on: Holy Crap It’s Quick Links!

By: Tabby

Tabby — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:10:11 +0000

The “sex” tags are probably just so it shows up in more searches, really. And except for the music, I didn’t find the little girl giant creepy at all. I think it’s quite nifty, actually. But then, I’m not afraid of clowns, either.

By: Matt Mobley

Matt Mobley — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:28:00 +0000

Thanks Len. Aside from the honey and the spoon, it was all thrown together from pieces of former projects. That’s why it got done so quickly. The doll is just a slightly modified version of the girl in my Yellowstone eruption pic. This song is just screaming for a video in a Tim Burton Corpse Brideish style. Perhaps the other projects could be put on hold for a while ….

By: Len

Len — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:03:02 +0000

That is really creepy, Matt. I’d love to see the whole video.

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:25:50 +0000

If I was that 9 year old kid, I’d want to know why my dad picked a song about babies in stollers for the sound track.

By: jpez

jpez — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:08:31 +0000

I was overwhelmed by the quick nature of your hyperlink posting.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:09:39 +0000

You, sir, are a mean boss. But I was always curious about how you got onto the moon since NASA had cancelled flights.

By: Matt Mobley

Matt Mobley — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:47:28 +0000

Yeah. I noticed that too. It must have happened in the resizing when we weren’t looking because it wasn’t like that last I checked. I just emailed JC a newer, brighter version.

By: Alex Holden

Alex Holden — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:45:13 +0000

Here’s a version I’ve tweaked to make it brighter: http://www.alexholden.net/misc/creepydoll2_tweaked.jpg

By: Alex Holden

Alex Holden — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:39:48 +0000

It’s ridiculously dark here too. I opened it up in a graphics program and displayed the histogram, and everything is bunched up at the far left hand side instead of spread out evenly.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:17:19 +0000

Yeah, there is some sort of giant fetish out there. Actually, before I was “famous” the only thing that came up when you googled my name was this piece of giant fetish fiction (or whatever it is, maybe just plain old fiction): http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/1misc9/margaret.txt. It’s always been a complete mystery to me why my name is used for the bad guy boss who gets thrown into the sky…

By: Orkendark

Orkendark — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:02:02 +0000

That giant girl doll has got to be one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen in my life. I kept waiting for it to show a glimmer of sentience, tear itself from it’s moorings in a gulliverian fit and destroy the little folk as they scurried away.

Also, some of the search tags for it, if you expand them, are like sex, and xxxx. What weird sort of fetish is that? Must be a German thing.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:57:57 +0000

Hmm, it’s kind of dark on mine, but not unseeable. Maybe I screwed something up - it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:40:53 +0000

It’s weird — I’ve looked at the image in several different applications, all of which are unreadably dark. Granted, PC monitors tend to be a little darker than Macs, but this is something else. I can see the other images on your site fine. Well, the church one is dark, but not this dark.

By: Matt Mobley

Matt Mobley — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:32:54 +0000

I try to test my images on as many types of monitors as possible before releasing them, but there’s always going to be some that don’t display the darker images properly. My graphics workstation PC, Laptop and Mac at home all look fine. Our work PCs look a bit darker, but not unviewable. I’ll see about posting a lighter version on my site when I get home.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:06:51 +0000

Giant creepy doll! Very different music, but I liked that too.

That image posted is very, very dark. I can barely see anything in it.

More info on the giant girl and friends:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sultan’s_Elephant

Finally, Stroller Town is one of those songs I idn’t love immediately, but have definitely grown to going back and listening to it again.