Look on my GIF, ye Mighty, and despair
27Stopped to get milk at this place the other day (OK, last November). Framed by the car window, the scene struck me as a “GIF”. I really have nothing else to do with it, so I’m going to leave it here and let it sink to the bottom of the forum like a dinosaur stuck in a tar pit. Perhaps someday in the distant future it will be dug up by a web archeologist and sold at a flea market in a bin full of fossilized GIFs.
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It feels like the start of a Pixar movie to me, about the Last Blinking Light. His name would be Clarence.
@dave No way. His name would be Morris, painfully pronounced as “Morse”.
@JerseyFrank Is that a code name???
Get it?.. Morse… Morse Code. HA!
@dave I’m not sure even a Randy Newman song can save that story.
I like it. A subtle, yet poignant commentary on the human condition.
@hallmike The light is on. But without a doubt, no one is home.
@KittySprinkles I said the human condition, not MY condition.
@hallmike You are most certainly not a dim bulb.
Actually I rather like it. Thanks for taking, making, and sharing! It’s both somber yet vigilant. As for Pixar it does kind of have that WALL-E feel to it.
Keep on truckin’, America.
I wonder at the story behind this GIF. Did the bulbs go out of manufacture or does someone just not give a fuck? Maybe their ladder broke or the owner threw his back out and can’t climb up there anymore to change the bulbs. Inquiring minds want to know.
The subtle movement of everything in the picture is a bit unnerving. It’s easier to see if you load the gif in it’s own page.
@cinoclav A guy goes to see his doctor, says, "Doc, I find it unnerving when I open this GIF in its own page."
Doc says: “Then don’t do that.”
/giphy that’ll be $40 please
@gregormehndel Unnerving in a good way or bad way? Here’s a version with a static background. Also, Clarence seems to be blinking faster. Hopeful or desperate?
@walarney Thanks, but it weren’t me who protested. It were @cinoclav. I like 'em both. The second one looks more like a beacon, so maybe more desperate. First one is art.
@walarney Not necessarily unnerving in a bad way. Kind of feels like you’re on a bumpy train ride while looking at it.
A monument to procrastination?
You have to think they were proud of it when it was new, and the first bulb to blink out may have not been noticeable. Then, as each subsequent bulb failed, it came to represent a certain resignation to the loss of dignity and hope.
Thanks for the post, @walarney. A cautionary tale, perhaps?
Replace all failed lights!