Somehow the lot of us managed to get a rather complex collaborative website pieced together in – programming time – under a week. I think the line I heard last week was,
“I thought you said this would be simple?”
Well, it looked simple to me. On paper. Yes, paper. That I scribbled all over with WE CAN DO THIS AND THIS AND THIS and wat about THIS with inky, inky pens.
BUT ENOUGH of all that. THE SITE IS LIVE and it’s confusing people in a very DADAist way – which is wat we sort of do.
There’s experimental music, interactive throw your own words and fotos into our LIVINGflommmOTION animated stew – and some artists seem to think this is where you upload your ZINE contributions – cause of a, um, TYPO (now fixed).
BUT submitting to our ZINE is the NEXT column over, with the pages-like icon and the hand pointing to SUBMIT.
We think.
The latest is we couldn’t get the аVANGARDE FIlms …Я playlist to AUTOPLAY – which is important for the FLOMMuTORie EXPERIENCe – you’ll see why IF you HIT THE ARROW and IF your speakers are on.
Oh, and all this plays better on a laptop, desktop, something big – tho we haven’t tested tablets or anything, really.
KYLIE is also there, almost looking at YOU and AS promised: ACTUAL SCREAMING.
If this doesn’t get you out of your STUCK AT HOME head today, well, we’ve done our best.
It’s all at www.flomm.us/423
In a few hours I’m going to crank up InDesign and start making some ZINE galleys.
For now, SUBMIT something to our ZINE (you have until MIDNIGHT), play with the HTML-made shapes, throw some shit into the stew and ponder why the AI writings went where they did.
I’m still thrown by a lot of it.
—steve mehallo
Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM!
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