The Red Obsession

Four Sites and a Very Profound Quote

The first three of these are the most amazing websites I’ve seen in, maybe, ever.

Their Circular Life

Five places in Italy, photographed seamlessly over a 24-hour period, from midnight through day and back to midnight again, with sound. You move the cursor around the dial at your own speed to glide through the day:

http://www.theircircularlife.it/frameset.htm

The Museum of Lost Wonder

Who knows what this is? It reminds me of Steven Milhauser’s The Barnum Museum crossed with Brian Selznick’s amazing silent-film-like novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. (On which, see

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/index.htm )

There are nine rooms in the Museum of Lost Wonder, one a conservatory, one like an astrolabe... most of them have hidden things and secret grottoes (scroll the cursor around to find the entrances), as well as all kinds of symbolism, helpfully labelled ... and the music ... and the visuals ... “For us it is enough, for us it is almost enough.”

http://www.lostwonder.org/flashtour/Museum_explore.htm

And the quote:

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

The title of this entry courtesy of the Random Title Generator!

http://wordsmiths.net/Maygra/RTG.htm