Vision on a Stick

[smokingboot]

My brother sent me an e-mail entitled 'You may remember.' The body of his message went as follows:

Life imitates art:

http://www.anybots.com/#front

Do you remember "Vision on A Stick"?

After my reply saying I hadn't the faintest clue what he was talking about, he wrote:

Vision on a stick was a character you invented (with others) and used to tell me bed time stories about, just after you read me the Narnian chronicles.

You described as "Like a hatstand on wheels, but where you would normally put your hat was a big eye ball swiveling in all directions."

I don't have a single memory of Vision on a Stick. Maybe I was every bit as strange as my brother suggests. Or maybe he's just messing with my head.

Cute bots though.

Comments

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

'Big Fish' remains one of my all time favourite films. For me, Tim's great weakness is not knowing when to end. He ruins the Wonka film with a protracted and pointless sugary ending and he nearly spoils the Nightmare Before Christmas by making it too long. Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow, I like. Edward Scissorhands...cute, but not a film I'd feel compelled to watch again.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Big Fish I found I didn't like the pacing and it was way too sentimental/sugary for me. Sleepy Hollow is a favourite of mine - Beetlejuice I like, Edward Scissorhands I find touching but I agree I dont re-watch it, Nightmare I love but thats partly as a 'Christmas/Halloween classic'- I must admit that what I really like of Tim Burtons stuff is Stainboy (and the other characters he created around him) and his various associated sketches. I love that stuff because its very much him playing with his ideas unfettered by any sort of need to appeal to anyone else.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I dont't know Stainboy...but the exhibition you describe sounds phenomenal.