Friday, September 23, 2011

Tin Man

Tin Man, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, aired as a three part, four and a half hour miniseries on SyFy in late 2007. Infinite OZ features the artistic visions of nine acclaimed international artists, a collaboration that brings to life the world of L. Frank Baum's classic adventure, as reimagined by Tin Man. The nine artists are Philip Straub, Greg Petchkovsky, Martin Lisec, Andreas Rocha, Gerardo De Gerard, Geoffery White, Raphael Lacoste, Phil McDarby, and Rudolf Herczog.
The site allows you to scroll at various speeds through the different lands that Infinite OZ consists of, either forward or backwards. Each land has some sort of portal included, like a billboard in the Papay Fields, inside that you travel through to get to the next land.
The first land is the Kansas Farm. From there, you travel through the tornado and end up in Into The Storm. Next are the Papay Fields, then the Milltown Exterior, the Iron Maiden, the Central City Approach, the Central City Streets, then Azkadellia's Lair, Azkadelliaa's Lair interior, the Northern Wastes, the Realm of the Unwanted, the Balloon, The Cave, the Floating Caskets, The Lake, and, finally, back to the Kansas Farm.



I found the site to be fascinating as the colors are vibrant in some lands and subdued in others. The camera can rotate as well, like when you go through the tornado. I also really like how they hide the portal to the other lands as ingeniously as they do, like in a puddle or in the grill of a car.

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