Hula Man meets the internet

Hula Man has his first encounter with the internet......how will he fare???

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• Hulaman
• themush

[sianbayne]

I had to watch this without sound (computer bust) so am guessing from Nicola's comment that Hula man gave the internet the big thumbs down. The internet is constructed here like an old testament god - omnipotent, testy and prone to vengeance. I'd like to see whether the more utopian, 'new testament' version, might win hula man around a bit more!

[TheMushtube]

yes it does appear like an old testament god as you say (the angle of him watching the screen adds to this too)- hula man for me represents someone from a world without technology encountering it for the first time- and it's complete overload and scary as a result. He may yet be won around though....

[TheMushtube]

commented here from another account-sorry!

[snapvu]

Overload was one of the themes I tried to convey- it's so broad and open to interpretation, cliched and riddled with paradoxes.

[jenrossity]

too bad about your sound, Sian - the music is great, and the scream makes the film! Nice job portraying a different kind of overload (see Ali's artefact for an example of info overload) - I didn't want the internet after reading about it here either!! Would have been interesting to see if you could have represented some of the ideas you wrote about in visual forms. Ps - loved 'informationally depraved' - was it a typo?!

[suchprettyeyes]

Oh that made me giggle! :D

I really liked it and just as I was wondering why we needed Hula Man as protagonist you cleared that up by showing him take a very rational response to the overload of questions and issues in the digital - to opt out. According to the latest OfCom and Oxford University Internet surveys most of those without access to the internet choose not to have access because they just don't want it - so there must be many real Hula Men/Women out there.

[globaleyes]

Love it!