World of Tomorrow Series (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015-)

[knives]

I haven’t seen that one yet and so can’t comment.

[swo17]

I bought the puzzle

[swo17]

i'm happy to report we've figured out a shipping solution to get around the USPS' ongoing strategic blockade of australia and new zealand. all of your delayed southern hemisphere packages will finally go out the door this week. our solution involves an expensive little man in a rowboat but he's assured me that all of your packages will still have tracking numbers if we ever need to look things up. the tracking numbers are in crayon. look, i don't know but please contact us if you've still not received your packages down under by the end of the month and we'll see what's going on. please note if the "it's such a beautiful day" blu-ray was part of your reward, your package will take a bit longer.

and with these last shipments, our fundraiser finally lumbers to a close. which is a shame as i've already blown all your money on dog races. not at the greyhound track, but the sexy late night illegal dog run in the train station parking lot. after the first $300,000 i realized i wasn't even betting on a dog but a bewildered limping possum that kept wandering into lane three. i'm sorry baby, it was dark out. we can recover from this i promise just give me another chance.

thanks again everybody for watching and i hope you like the next things that are coming. happy new year and it's cold now, don't forget to wear those layers

don

[Murdoch]

Has anyone who backed the Hertzfeldt Kickstarter not received their Blu? I'm in Upstate NY and got the puzzle reward, but that's it. If anyone can PM me who to contact about it, I'd appreciate it (I left a comment on the Kickstarter about my issue but didn't see any customer service info)

[Red Screamer]

I finally caught up with the 2020 episode of World of Tomorrow and it’s my favorite of the first three by far. Its writing relies less on cleverness which I think holds the first two installments back somewhat and Hertzfeldt takes more risks, expanding the range of the series in terms of narration, structure, and imagery (the series’ first non-abstract interiors! and they’re stunning). There’s also less hand-holding via voiceover exposition for the film’s narrative twists and science-fiction concepts which I think shows Hertzfeldt’s growing confidence in the genre. Highlights include one of the funniest visions of the future of the internet and all the ways the film takes the series’ idea of a low-rent high-tech digital future—constantly breaking down and riddled with bugs and software errors—to its brutal logical conclusion. Watching all three episodes back to back, it was fascinating how much the digital animation technology changes between segments and how Hertzfeldt’s visual style smartly adapts along with it.

[therewillbeblus]

I recall Ehrlich’s review for the third installment vaguely acknowledged Easter eggs that made elements of the first two chapters click, and I feel like I’ve watched them back to back (to back) multiple times without fully grasping what he’s talking about. Curious if you or anyone else had a similar experience or could shed light on what he’s referring to in his review

[Red Screamer]

All the connections I noticed were made in plain sight, however novel they were. The only one I can think of that you might miss if you dont watch them back to back is that

Spoiler

it turns out that one of the David clones is the artist who put a young David clone in a cage at an art gallery as narrated at the beginning of the first episode and that same artist David clone is the man with the whimsical hairdo who gets time travelled to nowhere in the second episode (and he will surely reappear in future installments which I’d wager will pick up with him in “nowhere”).