Interactive Whimsy

It's called "Vectorpark." That's all the information you're going to get about what it is or who made it or why. As you click and drag your way through the various animated environments, it slowly dawns on you what this site is really all about: whimsy. Sheer, meaningless, delightful, interactive whimsy.

Say, for example, you find yourself, for some reason known only to you, clicking on the image above - the one of the snowman, bowling ball and bucket with a spigot. You find yourself looking at a watery somewhere, above which is suspended a hangar slowly rotating in the virtual wind. A bowling ball falls into the water. On top of the bowling ball, a question mark. Or is it a hook? Drag the question-mark-hook to one end of the hangar, and your question is answered. It's a hook. You now have a bowling ball hanging on a hangar. And then another hangar falls.

After much hanging and unhanging, you find yourself constructing an intricate, Calder-like mobile, composed of a melange of bizarre objects - a birdhouse and submarine, snowman and bowling ball. The reward for getting everything to balance - yet something else to hang. Like the bucket, for example. The one with the spigot. A spigot that can empty the bucket to make it lighter.

This is only a taste of a virtual smorgasbord of wonderfully silly invitations to pure, meaningless, delicious fun. One more exhibit to hang in the Museum of Modern Play.