Below is an animated GIF which is popular on Twitter and a lot of blogs. You might take offense of the lighthearted way the author has chosen to display such epic and dramatic events. But looks past that and you see a mini documentary and different view on a story that has been told many times, but never like this.
More traditional thinkers might say that this is NOT the way to tell a story about World War II. I think a comedian/artist/story teller can use any form he likes as long as he gets the original concept across. Humor is a very normal tool for people to grasp dramatic and traumatic events.
I think this is the first time I watched a documentary about the events leading up to the second world war and followed what happened and who did what to whom.
This is more than just funny. It is a work of art.
Yes, that was funny :)…
I think it is a work of art, and it tells a story in an effective, but entirely new way, which I think will reach and interest new audiences.
It’s appropriate that The Next Web blog highlights material like this – the ‘next web’ will contain all sorts of new kinds of content and communication, and innovative ways of presenting ideas.
For example – who’d have predicted something like Twitter even five years ago?
haha!
this is genius. how else do you expect to teach kids about history. they can’t read anything but l33t and have attention spans of barley a .gif animation.
haha funny
i lol’d so hard…
this is genius. how else do you expect to teach kids about history. they can’t read anything but l33t and have attention spans of barley a .gif animation.