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there’s a new saturday evening cartoon on okto called FLATMANIA, which seems quite intelligent for a kid’s programme. essentially, its about a teenage boy who gets sucked into a magazine and has to find his way through the stack of magazines along with another teenage girl who’s actually just a 2D paper cutout inside that magazine world.

what interests me is how the characters in the cartoon constantly discuss the relationship or difference between “reality” versus “copies/images of reality”. how “real characters” posit themselves in relation to “illustrated images” as opposed to “photocopied/polaroid copies of images”. oddly baudrillardian with all this talk of simulacra. the visual style was very unique and i think even adults working in printing or design will probably appreciate the many references it makes to digital printing and its commentary on advertising messages today…. and you can watch it on okto at 5pm every saturday!

in a similar vein, there’s apparently a rather shiny animated production of Abbott’s FLATLAND! from the trailer it seems they’ve gone and taken some liberties with it – a female Hexagon? and an belligerently american sounding Line? WHAT NEXT? but nevermind. still looks like it’ll be worth watching!

AND THEN… THERE IS SPHERELAND. i think sphereland and this clip about turning spheres inside out officially maxes out my mathematics absorption quota for the week. and L-systems indeed. brain hurty.