[video, un: cri985]

[psychonductor]

WHO: Crito & the app
WHERE: The app
WHEN: 2nd Jan
WHAT: Crito seizes a business opportunity.
WARNINGS: Potentially strenuous image-heavy graphic design



[Users of Libra will find a new video popping up on the network, which, upon watching, seems to be more along the lines of a powerpoint presentation. With transitions. Of course it has the transitions. A high, chirpy voice narrates the on-screen text as it spins and slides around:]

have you ever.....LOOKED at a train?

and THOUGHT...



with the magic of



you CAN have a TRAIN in your VERY HAND!!!!



COME TO FINAL DESTINATION TO BUY YOURS !!!!NOW!!!!



[The image spins out in a closing transition, and the video ends.]

Comments

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

[...What the fuck.]

I have so many questions that I honestly don't know where to start.

[psychonductor]

how many of them are about trains?

[droptheious]

Quite a few of them are. I understand how they work but I'm a little confused about how plastic is involved. Are they toys?

[psychonductor]

they’re functional miniature replicas.


[So. Toys.]

[droptheious]

[LONG LONG PAUSE.]

Pretty sure that's the definition of a toy. So it's a toy store?

[psychonductor]

gee, i don’t know…isn’t that broadening the definition a little too much? i’d call it more of a ‘specialist hobby store’ myself.

how many questions are we down now?

[droptheious]

Maybe? And oh, is this one of those things where you call a doll an action figure instead?

Still so many. What's with the weird pictures?

[psychonductor]

this is very different to dolls.

and what weird pictures

[droptheious]

Are you sure? Toys are toys, right?

The pictures in the post. Like the "WOW" and everything.

[psychonductor]

*functional miniature replicas.

Haven’t you heard of “graphic design”?

[droptheious]

Yeah. Definitely toys.

No? What is it? Does that mean "pictures on the internet with words"? Because I thought those were called "memes".

[psychonductor]

[Crito has to take a moment. This is simply too good.]

no no no its veerrry different. graphic design is an art form dedicated to the marriage of aesthetics and functionality. its kind of a passion of mine.

as you can see.

[droptheious]

[It's an absolute goddamn tragedy that Varian doesn't know memes that this sails RIGHT over his head. There it goes.]

This...graphic design is your passion? Okay, I can understand following what you enjoy. That's important.

Are they tricky to make? The graphic designs?

[psychonductor]

oh yeah. real hard. i put real blood and sweat into these! art isn’t without its sacrifices, you know.

[droptheious]

I can understand that. I have a friend back home who's a painter. I wasn't aware you could do art on the internet though. Guess you do learn something new every day.

[psychonductor]

happy to educate!