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10.12.03 Esc@you, the human interface.
Among the many young talents who use Flash to produce their code, there's somebody who goes beyond aesthetic research and tries to exploit its possibilities to express more complex concepts. The lithuanian Esc@you, for example, with its few kbytes of code, brilliantly succeeds at carrying some characteristics of the physical world into its screen and, as a consequence, at directly interacting with the user. The best example is the popular 'Crazy Rabbit', an animated rabbit which follows the mouse pointer around, hugging and pulling it until the user shakes it off. This way, the pointer loses its neutral meaning of simple interface to become a real interactive 'object'. The user, too, feels hugged and pulled and without the control he usually has on this symbol and its behaviour. In 'Karusel', too, the automatic element is replaced by a request of intervention by the user, with a crank to turn to make the animation go forward. In 'Kiss', too, where there's no possible interaction, the fast and copious sequence of kisses blown by the lips drawn on the screen can only elicit an instinctive reaction, both for the hyper-realistic sound effect and the speed of the sequence, which prevents any mediation and makes the machine express itself with an unusually explicit language.