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You may remember Wendy’s cat, GarF6ield? Well, behind every hilarious CGI cat there is a terrifying CGI woman. Meet her! She is kind of NSFW, meet her!
OH DEAR GOD! At least the video is the right length. Imagine, if it had only been three minutes and 20 seconds long, we never would have gotten to see another full minute of CGI Wendy frolicking on a beach that is literally FILTHY with orcas. That is seriously too many orcas. I don’t know what beach that is, but I’m sure it’s just a digital rendering of a real beach, and someone needs to do some orca clean up ASAP. It just seems dangerous and unhealthy! Get out there, Brownie. (Reference to Michael D. Brown, head of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Cool References over here. 2011.) Good, now that that is taken care of, let’s all go back to sleep and just wait for this week of nightmares to end. Just kidding. NO SLEEPING! The micronaps are what kill you. NO MICRONAPS! (Thanks for the tip, Chris Trash.)
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My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
The score is really special. Is it Eddie Vedder’s Synthesized Kazoo Songs? I heard a rumor that was coming out.
I cannot tell if the music or the weird moving backgrounds hurt my brain more. But I suppose it is moot, since I am now bleeding out of my eye sockets.
Oh, good, I was worried for a moment that today might be a good day, like that rapper who was in that movie with a name that I cannot remember. Happy last day of the working week, everybody!
I just got a call informing me that I will die in 7 days. After seeing this video, I am kindof okay with that.
I am actually just died watching that…. don’t even know how I am typing this. Its not ok here. That Winnie Mandela on acid thing has somehow hacked into the after life and is causing chaos! Stay away from the light lilbobbytales!
“I literally just died while watching that nightmare video” – rachel zoe
are you having problems with the lawnmower man again? i think i found his wife.
I’m curious what kind of digital/social experiment this is supposed to be. I mean, this is definitely a weird artist thing. It’s on Vimeo and it’s intentionally unsettling. Who is this fat lady persona and why does she exist? What is the goal here? I have so many earnest questions about the motivations behind this.
Ernest questions? Aren’t those mostly just “knowwhutimean?”
So this is like a video test for someone who figured out realistic (kinda) body jiggle. I am right with that? Is that why everyone is on the chunkier side of the tracks?
On a side note I really enjoyed the few moments of “The Apache Dance”. I love that dance.
It’s clearly the Source engine. The physics are almost too perfect, amirite nerds?
Don’t go looking to nerds for questions about realistic physics. If they really cared about that, Star Wars would have been a flop.
Excellent! That is all.
From the reactions yesterday, there seemed to be a huge outcry against Gifs and Snark. I thought in reading these comments that maybe I would turn over a new leaf and truly try and generate more conversations and discussions.
And yet, I am presented with the above video and am at a loss to truly describe my horror without my Snark rifle full of Gif shells.
Could this be the end of Frank Lloyd Wrong?
I didn’t read those comments yet, we’re against snark now? Then I guess I’ll be moving on to Stereogum. Someone get me a CD from a band nobody outside of liberal arts college has ever heard of, stat!
I can summarize the complaints for you: “I don’t like Gabe, or any of the commenters, which is why I have an account and come to the website every day. Now, no more gifs, or jokes I don’t get, and please have the courtesy to wait to comment until I have time to comment.”
But to be fair, a lot of the comments on that thread are sapphire bullets of pure love, which is nice. Also, I got drunk and apparently commented. Whoops! Don’t drink and comment, kids.
Boo, I hate sapphires! Grubmle grumble complain complain booooooo!
Stop having food for a face! I don’t like it!
I think that is an unfair characterization of the huge amount of comments in the 6-month review thread. There were a lot of valid things said. It is hard to break into the community (mainly because everyone is so funny). It is hard to say anything valuable beyond 30 minutes after a post is posted. Can or should those things be changed? I doubt it, but they are valid.
That’s fair–I was really just trying to crack a joke. You’re right that some of the criticism was thoughtful and deserves to be aired. But the thing about it being difficult to say anything valuable after a certain point–why does that matter, really? If you have something to say, say it. If you don’t think the Monsters will see it, then turn around and tell someone. Why does it matter if everyone sees it? I’m not being snarky, I just don’t get it. If I miss the window to have the majority of Monsters see my comment it doesn’t really bother me that much.
PROPOSED SOLUTION:
Start a new sister site, angrygum. Just let people rant and complain there. I nominate myself as head blogger. If things ever get too calm and people are not complaining enough, I will simply make a post about how Sufjan Stevens is overrated, or the reasons why Minute To Win It is the greatest show ever to appear on television.
@Baby Friday – I can’t find the reply button under your comment. I know its embarrassing. Like how old am I now, and I can’t find your reply button. I refreshed the page and everything. I am just a little inexperienced.
I get what you are saying. For me, about half the time I comment, its to say something I want to say and I don’t care who see’s it or likes it. The other half I comment because I want to be apart of this place. I have a little Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Please Love My Comment going on. I suspect other people are similar.
@digtochina Eventually, when a comment has been replied to a lot, there comes a point where there is no reply button. So it’s not you, it’s Vgum.
And thanks for the explanation! I get it a little more now. And just so people know, I think a lot of people come back and re-read posts, or read them late at night, so people should contribute whenever they have a chance to! Someone will see it.
@Frank Lloyd Wrong – We just straight hijacked this bitch. Sorry about that.
Well this has been a very fruitful and civil discussion. Score one for Videogum.
Will FLW’s resolution against gifs be his undoing? Will lawblog take the contract and find out that Burt, his stepfather, killed his father? Will facetaco find a cure against spoilage? These questions—and many others—will be answered in the next episode of Soap!
Oh, man. LBT. Now I’m going to have the Soap theme song stuck in my head. The only know cure for that is either the Barney Miller theme song or the WKRP end credits.
i will continue to fight the good fight and upvote quality snark when i see it. you have a job to do, FLW, keep doing it well.
Behold what Pixar hath wrought!
Shrek 5 looks like it really sucks! I mean, where was Donkey?
I’d always wondered what David Lynch thought of right before orgasm, and now I know!
Why on earth would you ever wonder about a thing like that?!
I’d like to open up the discussion, if I may, to explore the evolution of Wendy from what we’ve seen in GarF6ield to her more current work. If you recall, GarF6ield had a very strict environment to work in. Wendy created specific boundaries for herself, where the cat stuck in the litter box represented a small portion of her own personality, and likely reflected a sort of impressionistic notion of society at the time. Let’s not forget that when GarF6ield was released, we were still living in a world of uncertainties, where Bin Laden was still alive and we still did not have a white iPhone. Possibilities were indeed limited.
Now, let’s look at Wendy’s new work. The presence of the bikini is probably the most obvious imagery of a world made anew with the progress made since Garf6ield. But, do not make the mistake of overlooking a very important fact: there are at least 7 different representations of Wendy in her new video (For now, let’s assume that they are indeed representations of herself). At one moment, there are two representations at once – including a manifestation of cat people and, as mentioned by others, Orcas. It seems that Wendy sees a world stripped of boundaries at this point in time. However, we should look a little deeper into her use of certain objects, especially, the aforementioned Orcas.
Once the Orcas are on screen, Wendy is wearing a horrible bikini. One may say to themselves: “We’re going to need a bigger bikini.” It sounds like a coincidence at first, but, remember Spielberg film that birthed the template of that quote (Jaws, 1975)? Remember the name of the boat Quint, Brody and Hooper rode to chase their own terrorist? That’s right: the Orca. Perhaps Wendy sees herself as set adrift in a useless world now that there is nothing left to hope for. Bin Laden is dead, we have a white iPhone…what else do we strive for in this new world?
tl;dr I have nothing to do at work today.
why type so much when you can GIF your feelings?
FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKING SHIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTT.
I have never been against .gifs. They freeze up my computer all the time and I STILL love them. But this makes me hate all .gifs. This just made me .gifsist.
Gabe, can we get an interview with this woman like you did with Double Rainbow guy (I think that was who you interviewed)? I really really want to know…what…this is.
WHYYYY does she have pancakes in her armpits?
fat people r funny lol
Guys, Tim and Eric has really gotten outta hand.
Holy shit, is this the first ever CGI animated outsider art? I am really sincerely amazed!
I’m very disappointed and terrified.
Is this the sequel to S1m0ne or something?
I’m glad she left YouTube for Vimeo, that’s where all the true artists hang out.
Boring. Call me when her head is a baby’s head.
This is some serious Twin Peaks shit.
I had a kind of The Wicker Man-esq response (the original one obvs) i.e. “CHRIST, NOO, OH CHRIST!”
Funny story, I went to my university’s Pagan Society showing of the original Wicker Man. I was the only Christian person there. Discussions pretty much amounted to “no, we aren’t really like that” on either side, and shared laughter over naked dancing. No laughing at this though.
I wasn’t sure if I was properly pacified, until the Orcas showed up.
Let the alien invasion commence.
Well this is probably not the best thing to watch at 9am when you have a hangover.
Well, I think 5 seconds is enough. Great work, GradStudentsAreTheWorst. Have a trophy.
The hair is strangely enchanting. The orca scene is, dare I say it, kind of beautiful?
Will someone make me a virtual sister?
Somewhere in France, Robert Crumb has a boner…
I want to dress up as Wendy at a ComiCon and invent the post-irony meta-hipster dufus movement. I’d be so aware of being the worst among a marginalized demographic at an overly-commercialized event, it couldn’t possibly be not amazing.