Courtesy of inquisitr.com
Tim Burton’s a pretty weird dude. Sometimes, his weirdness lends to great art (see: Edward Scissorhands; Big Fish) and sometimes it lends only to the mediocre (see: Alice in Wonderland).
Lately though, it seems like Burton’s been venturing outside of cinema. He held an exhibit of his drawings, photography and short films at MoMA – which recently moved to Toronto – that contained some pretty great stuff.
In the exhibit, he showcased some of his work with Stainboy, a curious little character contained in very short animated episodes.
Well, Burton’s latest non-film endeavour has officially been finished — a story/script about Stainboy, written by users on Twitter.
Burton wrote the following line, “Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor #BurtonStory”. From there, users from around the twitterverse came together to finish the story — basically play one large game of “yes and”-improv building off of what the user before them said.
The story gets even more bizarre and a bit convoluted — but it really ends up sounding like it came from Burton himself. The 140-character limit really helped push this along, and the medium really fits in with the Stainboy persona he created.
But where does this lie in the domain of creative authorship? I mean, Burton started the idea and picked the final tweets (and created the character), but he didn’t actually write any of it. It’s very strange.
Do I hope that more artists try this? No. But do I think Burton was courageous for doing so? Yes.
Regardless, check the story out here and decide for yourself if you like it. Try you best to ignore the #’s.
