Interface: Our Horrifying Digital Afterlife
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2024
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A fever dream, a familiar reality, a place where ghosts are consumed and the future and past flow into each other... welcome to the psychedelic world of Justin Tomchuk's Interface.
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I have written on Campfire before, and it's quite useful for creating characters and worldbuilding.
It's a pleasant surprise to see you mention it!
ads and promotions are nice, but a link to the source material of the video would have been great.
@@saphi20 You can also go up to the search bar and just type in what he said it was? (Interface by u m a m i)
Where is the work of the person you're piggybacking on? Are they not important enough to link in the description or pin?
I understand the annoyance, but it just seems like it was accidentally left out. The name of the creator and original work is clearly stated throughout the video.
"the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. now is the time of monsters."
Unfortunately so it seems one must act monstrous to be respected these day's. Or maybe I'm just noticing.
Was thinking this the entire time.
Who said this?
@@icyskelly204 Antonio Gramsci
Consider: If the struggle for a new world gives birth only to monsters; Perhaps the new world should die in its womb and spare the rest of us the misery.
"I can barely explain this"
> Proceeds to give me a pretty great understanding of this fictional world
Kind of, but I feel like a lot got glossed over out of necessity. Especially when its sequel series, Safe Mode, is taken into consideration.
Tale foundry finally found UMAMI and I couldn't be happier
S A M E
So much the same
A forgotten relic that's for sure
Absolutely! It doesn't seem real!
Know any more like this ?
A small sad story:
As the series was being completed it (2019) I've saved an old CRT tv and an old computer with a S-Video output to connect them, and watch the series in its full analog glory.
By the time the series was finished, my mom mistaken the tv for trash, threw it away.
That actually kind of really ties into the message of Interface. Moving on from the past and how you choose to go about it, either by clinging to the past and trying to get it back, or embracing the new future. That still is definitely pretty sad, but it’s sort of poetic that it mirrors the series you were watching in that way
Something that plays into the mention of these creatures’ being myths and ghosts, it is worth mentioning that Mischief’s origin describes a known modern myth, called the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment. It was a successful attempt to teleport a vessel, but it resulted in an undesired destination, and the gruesome casualties of the crew.
It is said that some details were nothing but exaggeration. Bedtime Stories covered this topic once.
@@cosmobane6995
Indeed it is said!
Though in this universe, that myth is reality, as much as the ghosts and legends that followed once the Paradigm Shift occurred due to this experiment.
A chicken hatching from an egg.
Why is the ship numbered 54 in the Interface animation but 173 in the Foundry animation? I know Eldridge is the destroyer from the experiment, but it's not the one shown in the video? (I have not watched Interface, is it explained fully there?)
@@earmite100Neither of them look anything like a WW2 destroyer. It doesn't really seem terribly important. Especially since the Eldridge wasn't even in Philadelphia at the time of the experiment. Going into this much detail doesn't seem to be important to the story, and is just raising more questions which need even more made-up answers.
I read a book once where the ship ended up in a pocket dimension. The survivors tried to escape but were hunted and terminated. They didn't get anywhere until they kidnapped a carrier. Also psychic powers were a definite thing in this world.
Yknow, I feel like the quote “Perhaps, this is hell.” From signalis fits perfectly with the interface
Exactly!!
I loved this series and overanalyzing what each detail meant. I didnt get to understand it but I got a profound and deep love for the weird and gritty becauss of it. Also a love for the clown aesthetic.
ENA and UMAMI are the remnants of that weird Newgrounds era of experimental videos and series. And I am all for it. There are many others too, who defy normal convention. Cat Soup, Psychicpebbles, Noodle and Bun, and many more I can't remember the name of but I will never forget the animation styles and stories.
Love ENA! 💛💙
So the Interface is Google, absorbing UA-cam and making it more similar to the media we had before?
But what does this story have to do with Mooney?
@@Antasma1 ? Excuse you
@@bavettesAstartes ENA joke
"Look, I'm a bird"
Tweet tweet
I missed out on the plush.
Ah, how I wish that I were a bird
@@russellharrell2747same, I did get the “Phrog” plush though, but I’m still sad I don’t have the bird to go with it.
I think the frog is still available on his merch store though
Umami has a refreshingly unique style. Highly underrated.
It's the most effort filled, low-effort animation I've ever seen.
Dear tale bot, can you please make a video about time loops? (Like "groundhog Day" "before i fall" and "the forgotten city") I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Love your videos ❤️!
And don’t forget Edge of Tomorrow!
OMG yes please!
And don't forget 'The Endless' (2017)!
That’s an amazing idea
Re:zero would be cool to mention
Wouldn’t mind if you ever took a look at Keith Thompson’s work. Lot of drawn art with snippets about them. Like a baby born in a steampunk womb of pressurized souls. This thing ascends to the heavens and starts to absorb those that die in the high atmosphere. Or another that’s my favorite the Pripyat Beast, a fleshly fusion of those irradiated humans and animal who died and thrown in a mass grave. Doesn’t stay there.
KEITH THOMPSON MENTIONED!! RAAAAAA WHAT THE FUCK IS A BRIGHT AND HAPPY SETTING!!
I've loved Kieth Thompson's artwork since I was in middle school and saw his illustrations in Leviathan. Severely underrated artist.
Hell yeah! Keith Thompson is amazingly underrated. Tale Foundry, please consider this.
Fuck yeah! Interface...so underappreciated imo.
Yeah, Interface is fucking amazing. Been watching the series since it's start and I hope Umami continues doing awesome stuff like this.
after i watched this i couldn't be less than dumbfounded by the fact that he basically just explained the dilemma of time and how it effects people
UA-cam has some excellent, wacky, outlandish animated series. From analog horror to this web series, there's so much originality.
Guess this is Bender's "in your face" interface
I discovered Umami during the start of the pandemic and it really helped me.
Interface convinced me to pursue art seriosuly
Likewise, moved into a friends apartment and we never missed an episode
I’m really happy to see this series get more appreciation and exposure to new audiences. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever watched. While Justin Tomchuck isn’t particularly great at drawing people (at least at the beginning of the series) he still manages to create some of the greatest art I’ve seen in my life, with lots of references to different classical and surrealist paintings and some really amazing music to go with it. He also continues to get better and better at drawing and animating and incorporating 3D visuals in his 2D worlds, and he’s got a new series called Safe Mode that’s still ongoing and is sort of a spiritual successor to Interface which takes place inside the interface. Definitely cannot recommend his work enough. It’s surreal, funny, beautiful, and everything in between.
That why I love watching your channel, each time that I opened talr foundry I find something new , thought provoking
That shift is the Philadelphia experiment legend
didnt knew Wall of Flesh is made of steel
YES UMAMI! Interface really messed with me in the best way, genuinely beautiful. I adore art like this
I love when two of my favorite channels collide. I clicked on Umami thinking it was a meme and spent the entire time with my jaw on the floor.
Even his memes can cause a psychotic break in the unprepared
I love the use of classic surrealist paintings in this. Great essay again! Thank you.
Interesting take on the paradigm shift! Not sure if anyone gets the reference about the ship. It actually might be a reference to an old movie “The Philadelphia Experiment” in where an experiment displaces a ship in time. It was also a reference in an SCP article “SCP-595” based on the same idea. I’m sure it all might be based on secret government experiment conspiracy theories, but it’s cool to see a different take on the idea. Instead of teleportation, this ship goes for electromagnetic manipulation for stealth. The results are about the same. The ship gets teleported randomly, a couple of people survived, some crewmen fused with the ship or changed, and the world is altered
Pretty cool take on the idea!
Oh yeah, it's definitely a reference to The Philadelphia Experiment. Though the story has been around much longer than the movie made back in the 80's.
It goes back to a handful of books published between 1955-1970s. It's certainly squarely in the realm of conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't attribute the idea to the SCP or movie. The story of the WWII naval ship getting teleported through space (some publications suggest time) due to a freak accident during an experiment, resulting in it's crew being melded with the ship itself, has been around for quite some time.
@@isaach.1135 guess it’s one of those older references
/tropes not seen by many lol
Didn't the abandoned script of Half-Life 3 (I think giving spoilers should be okay in this context) also include a ship trying to teleport and having bizarre results?
@@AdamEornom not familiar with that script but if they were trying to teleport or time travel, I can see them using the idea
It's somewhat based on the (blatantly insane) conspiracy theory that is also the basis for Stranger Things: The Montauk Project (which ties in The Philadelphia Experiment). Stranger Things was even originally called Montauk
I saw this video first before watching the series, and boy, am I glad I gave it a try. It's very abstract, and the points it makes aren't always clear, but it still tells a great story. Mischief is definitely something to get used to, but by the end of it, I warmed to him. He's got a sort of child-like innocence. almost endearing.
I for one have been doing fine by watching eltorro64rus and StBlackSt for my deranged animation fix.
More on the point of the video, some of it reminds me of Ren Fujii from Dies Irae who wants nothing more than to retain his everyday life to the point that he becomes able to freeze time to keep it. And he eventually has to accept that his wish would become a hell no different from what the main villain is trying to accomplish.
Only found the channel a month ago and ive watched all the content. Even the concept of a robot explaining these concepts and stories to me is so cool and unusual. I really think im in love with a UA-cam channel
I have never come across this series, but I must admit it really seems up my alley!
The art style in itself is amazing
Interface episode 23 is one of the most marvelous pieces of art I have ever witnessed, art and it's purest form brought to life
OMG IM SO HAPPY YOU FOUND INTERFACE!!! It has been my favorite piece of media ever since i found it 5/6 years ago!!
I loved this series so much when I watched it! Thank you for FINALLY covering it!!
I never expected you to cover this series.
It's absolutely amazing and it has such an unique, surreal and nostalgic style and a high quality production.
I met the creator of umami at the ottawa international animation festival where he had a q&a about his work he's a real cool dude :D
Great to see you found this series, really loved watching it as episodes came out.
Originally found it through Nexpo, and loved the channel ever since.
I can't believe this didn't get more views, lol
I love this channel. I watch you on Nebula first and rewatch on both platforms. Sometimes I even go to sleep to this channel.
Thank You! This is Criminally Underrated.
One of my favorite creations all time. Watched this in 2021. I’ve rewatched 6 times, finding new meaning. “I fear camouflage is useless from those who see the world in black and white.”
Love this series for ages even got the vhs tape edition
You’re opening musical piece and animations are my absolute favorite
This series feels important, i cant explain why or how but it reqlly feels like something thay NEEDS to be seen..
I have been eatching this series since episode 3, eagerly awaiting every ep. Took years too conplete but can say it is one of my favourite series very to be made. Thank you umami. ( yes i have it on VHS and watched it to ots entirety with my friends ona CRY TV)
I love that y’all made this video. I would have never gotten to experience this story because this is the only type of animation that scares me. I love the story and the depth in it.
God I love these analytical videos of yours mate. It’s always a treat to see them pop up on my feed
Might not be your cup of tea, but the youtuber: Nikita Kryukov. Has made a game which I found had a similar atmosphere to what you showed us here.
"Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk", and its sequel "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" are both deep dives into how a broken mind interprets, her everyday life.
They are both short games, as I manage to finish the latter game, in a span of some ten minutes passing. Not even an hour, if I remember correctly.
It isn't as dense in the worldbuilding department, but if you want a look into a more intimate experience, then it might be for you.
Are you going to also talk about the some how stranger sequel series "safe mode"
Watch Safe Mode as well the ongoing sequel. I was late to the part with Interface, but it was well worth the ride. It is my absolute favorite thing in the world. The music, the characters and the animation are all top tier.
Really glad to see this series getting covered on TF! Definitely one of the most interesting animated series I've seen here on YT :p
I love how much random stuff from my city of Montreal is squeezed into this series. The cross on Mount Royal, the Olympic Stadium, the art museum and so much more even a random statue downtown is there. Obviously I love the series itself far more than these little references but its still quite neat!
But, within the story, don't you create your own experience? Thus the structure of a good story, washed by vaguery (a paradox within itself), can become the fertile ground on which you can build your own experience. So i suppose, the lesson is not to get lost in there, take the ghosts of your experience and move forward.
Paused. Watched it. Loved it. Back now for your vid
You have an uncanny ability to find the most interesting stories from all forms of media I would have otherwise never heard about or payed attention to thank you 🙏
Seems like a fun commentary about the world we live in thats not exactly gone wrong but has started to forget itself if that makes sense.
i am legitimately so glad you made a video about this
Thank you for finding this, ive missing it
I remember that Nightmind made a play at trying to explain this once, long long ago.
i remember watching these as they came out and it was great
I love interface so much and I didn't expect it to show up on Tale Foundry of all places!
AAA finally Tale Foundry covers UMAMI's Interface! I've been hooked since Nexpo made a video on the series & I love Mischief, he's adorable & love the fact that they made him into a bird plushie. Also Henryk is there to show how depressing immortality actually is.
This was definitely an interesting video. Part that hit me in an interesting way was describing the cerebral static as "something that's always been here" and how it's seen by some as a "new threat" simply because we know of it now. This is probably because there are a few things about me that have resulted in some people feeling justified in treating me poorly, simply because "we didn't used to have this stuff".
I'm autistic, and there have always been autistic people. They simply went undiagnosed and misunderstood. I'm Asexual, and there have always been queer people. We are not threats. We're just finally being seen clearly.
Oh, Abbie, that mandala in the prologue! That is such an incredible piece. Has u m a m i seen it?
Thank you so much, TaleFoundry, both for recommending this work, and for encouraging me to watch it before your video. You were so right, and _Interface_ has made me re-evaluate how a story needs to be told.
I notice that there's no direct mention of the _social_ reactionary movements of the present day. That's understandable, but I feel like they are definitely part of the piece's commentary, one of the questions it asks.
But, Talebot, I'm sorry, but the first part of _Interface_ is set in Montreal, not Toronto! They go to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and Montreal's Olympic Stadium, its dome now suspended by cables of cerebral electricity, is shown over and over until the plot moves the characters out of town.
One thing that's missing is how Henryk's great-granddaughter factors into this. Another is that at the time of the series, Henryk is a manifestation like Mischief.
I get that we're avoiding spoilers, but I feel these factor into the interpretation, and provide for the plot as well. I need to go through the series to put it all together.
It's good to see the old Philadelphia Experiment is continuing to evolve.
I haven't thought about interface in years.
Thank you, Tale. 🍀
Interface is GOATED. Mischief is one of my favorite fictional characters ever.
Wow. I got so little of the story, but also so much.
I had no idea what the interface was (and when the heck everything was happening), but I understood all the soul stuff for the most part. And now I realize that the 3D-rendered stuff was the interface. And that's super cool.
I remember the first time I saw snippets of this series on Adult Swim back in the day! Such a neat series.
Now this is a crossover I did not expect.
Ah the USS Eldritch, we meet again. On another note, for thousands of years people were mostly happy with an unchanging reality. Our modern obsession with constant change (read growth) is what is destroying the world.
The Why Files does a great job at uncovering the accounts of The Philadelphia experiment. Give it a watch, though the original story has nothing to do with The Interface. This sounds like An amazing story and now I REALLY need to go watch it.
Interface is a magnificent thing indeed and I’m so glad you found it.
Damn that series is a trip
It amazes me not only that people have the intelligence to think up stories this wacky, but have the vision to animate it in this strange style as well.
Interface is easily one of my favourite pieces of media ever made.
The fact that it was largely created by just one guy is also *hugely* inspirational!
This video is already added to Umami’s playlist “Interface reviews”.
Interface when Outerbottom walks in
probably a bit pedantic of me to say this, but as clarification, a lot of the series takes place in Montreal not Toronto. As someone who's lived in both places its a distinction worth making as outside of Canada, Toronto is usually the only city that actually gets talked about while Montreal (a better city in my opinion) is ignored.
Seeing this makes me want a video on ENA
despite the grim content you post about, your voice is like smooth velvet on the ears.
Love you tale bot
I had to stop watching at about 50 seconds in and go check this series out for myself. This looks crazy cool!
Love Umami’s work!
This could be a crazy take for a bard turned warlock
“Using others inspiration as power to feed the laws of inspiration” or something like that
Yes! This one is so gooooood
Chose to not watch for spoilers 😂. Thank you for making this video! The algorithm would have NEVER provided this to me, would have never had the pleasure.
Забавно. Я сам нашел на неделе сию историю и искренне наслаждался процессом понимания того что происходит по кусочкам что дает автор, и теперь это тут. Приятное совпадение, хотя вероятно я приторможу в просмотре чтобы избежать более поздних спойлеров.
Интересно как история похожа на "Романтику Апокалипсиса" - концептуально, при минимуме формального сходства. Там и там произошло масштабное изменение мира и восприятие исскуства во многом связанно с интерпретацией противоречивой картины перед относительно нормальным персонажем вокруг которого идут основные события.
Getting closer to a well deserved 1 mil I see!
This video explained why certain people like alternate history. It is because they do not like the present and certainly do not like where humanity is heading in the future as well. To them, they believed their lives have been screwed before they were born due to certain events in the past didn't go the ways that will ultimately brought the better outcomes. For example, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will be in the much better shapes and more stable if the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire still existed. And by using what happened after their falls as the evidences, they made the good case about it.
Alt history is for nerds who can't cope with the way things are so they have to wish for other possibilities that historically didn't happen.
@@benjaminjenkins2384 And can you blame them? After all, look at how messy the world is.
@@lerneanlion Yeah i totally can, looking back and sucking your thumb is infantile. The only thing to do is move forward, wishing on a star that things are better than they are is not a recipe for success.
@@benjaminjenkins2384 Well, we can also always learned from the past. This is why history is important.
@@lerneanlion learning from the past is fine, but alt history enthusiasm isn't learning from the past, its theory crafting and lore but in real life
What a fascinating idea. Maybe I'll look into this series.
Giving me mad Serial Experiments Lain vibes, and I don't know why.
Edit: Upon finishing the video, there was just too much similarity to pick out one idea, and also too different to really find the comparisons instantly.
mischief as a frog is one of the funniest things i would probably see in the interface
An interesting thing to consider: when you covered the “Unconscious Conscious” segment of the series, you mentioned the two choices Henryk was presented with: To live within the Interface with recreations of his loved ones for eternity, or to abandon the past and live in the new world. When covering this, you mention that Henryk’s daughter is artificial, and therefore not real.
Earlier in the series (Episode 20) it is revealed that when Henryk’s daughter died, her CE became the hand ghost creature. She was also the first being we see absorbed into the Interface.
Henryk is already dead (as episode 23 confirms) and is a CE being just like his daughter. He too gets absorbed into the Interface, but only mentally. Henryk within the Interface is real and himself, and is not a recreation. For that reason, you could assume that the being we see as Henryk’s daughter might not be artificial either, and could truly be her. Although, she was consumed entirely by the interface (unlike Henryk), so she might not have control over her own mind and emotions, and is asking Henryk to join her in the artificial afterlife because Greetings is making her.
Greetings, in an effort to win Henryk over, brings in his REAL daughter to convince him, and manipulates her into guilting Henryk into joining her in he afterlife.
This type of thing reminds me of this animated movie called "Cat Soup". It's such a surreal journey of this little cat trying to get his sister's soul back. Also has no dialogue.
Ooh yeah now do Don Hertzfeldt’s “It’s Such a Beautiful Day”
Not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but this is Montreal. I recognized so many buildings.
Why does it I feel like I'm being educated the second I click on one of the tale foundries' videos
isn’t humanity kind of useless… like ya you’re not human anymore, but like what about it? you are still who you are, you’re just different.
I recommend to watch interface beforehand. It's a great series and you can absolutely spoil it watching this video. It's also probably one of the best series I ever watched
All of U M A M I ‘s stuff is amazing (the interactive choose-your-path videos among them) but Interface is just beyond and needs to be talked about as the masterpiece it is.