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Bad CGI Gator
2023 · Film · 58 min
Directed by Danny Draven
Six college grads on spring break get a cabin in the swamplands of Georgia. Once there, they decide to throw their school laptops in a backyard lake in an act of youthful defiance, which unknowingly turns a lurking alligator into the dreaded and insatiable… BAD CGI GATOR!
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I ironically love this and think it's (un)intentially hilarious. It's basically everything people who think very seriously about infoviz warn about, crammed into a single terrible visualization on the subject of visualization. It's such an erudite accumulation of inexpert concepts it almost has to have been put together (paradoxically) by an expert in the field.
I looked it up, and indeed it was put together by a couple serious folks [1]. Even extensively cites Tufte.
I reminds me of the movie "Bad CGI Gator" from last year.
This is so wonderfully hard to parse as either parody or serious. Brilliant.
1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1712936.1712954