Hotel California

[TomatoClock]

I'll take part in the collaboration

[NintendrCkolc]

I think it's time we all admit that bb10 definitely has some sort of learning disorder, social disorder, or autistic spectrum disorder.

[BilliardBall10]

can i take part in this collab?

what are the specs?

[Sinister Clock]

I'm watching it right now and I don't ever remember making a part for this so it'll be interesting when I get to mine.

EDIT: Oh my god, I remember making that, it's p bad.

[SpriteRemixClock]

wow that's crazy. i can't believe it's been a decade since i made that little piece for this collab. if it weren't for blackberry clock mentioning my name in the original post i don't think i would have even remembered i participated. time flies.

looking back at the art style i was carrying in my flash videos then, i remember i was obsessed with accomplishing a realistic look. every background i worked on took a painstakingly long time. i even remember trying to draw power outlets on the "sets". and that paris hilton reference is so dated! i like that it puts my contribution in a very specific time and place.

but enough kissing my own ass. i'm probably not going to post in any more threads so i'll just do all my waxing poetic right in this post, if no one minds. you do mind? well go fuck yourself.

i honestly think about the clock crew probably once or twice a year, if that. thinking about what the clock crew was back then gives me this warm fuzzy feeling. YouTube wasn't yet a big thing, Instagram wasn't a thing at all (probably, I don't care enough to go to the Wikipedia page to find out) and social media hadn't quite kicked into full swing. as content creators, we weren't animating for a high number of views to get a cut of profits from Google, nor were we trying to pimp ourselves to get exposure and acclaim as artists. the inherent anonymity behind the clock avatars guaranteed it.

it was for the love, fam. we were teenagers (and probably a lot of pre-teens too) with pirated copies of Macromedia Flash and too much time on our hands. it was so pure, and fun. there were no real constraints other than our imaginations and the sky was the limit.

but the lack of constraint has its drawbacks too. now that i'm in my late twenties and getting involved in the film industry i feel like we could have standardized a lot of things (or is that the Hollywood in me talking?).

for instance. what if the Clock Crew had had a character bible? laid out the backgrounds and personalities of the more popular and central Clocks in a concrete canon, ie. Orange Clock is ALWAYS a can't-lose Bugs Bunny type hero? Banana Clock is ALWAYS a wealthy young egomaniac who spends large sums of money purposely to annoy others?

actually i think that's an accurate description of who bananaclock is/was.

or let's say, an established look for what Strawberry Clock's throne room would look like? not just for canon but for brevity? i would have gotten behind someone defining iconic looks and locations in Clocktopia.

i've rambled on enough. forgive me if someone has brought up these ideas before, i didn't exactly check to see if someone had. i'm baked and up way too late. good to see you guys. especially my man Slurpee right there.

[NintendrCkolc]

but the lack of constraint has its drawbacks too. now that i'm in my late twenties and getting involved in the film industry i feel like we could have standardized a lot of things (or is that the Hollywood in me talking?).

I had similar thoughts about this recently. So many of us poured countless hours into creating content, not just for the casual viewer, but just to entertain those within this community. It's a shame that a lot of it will be lost or forgotten as time goes on considering, and it would've been interesting if this dumb little fad would've evolved into something bigger.

Personally, I'd be happy to just see some kind of big archive for anything and everything involving a clock. A nifty database where we could search or use keywords to find specific things (threads, flashes, specific days) that we remembered from what is now a bygone era. I guess we can still do this to some extent with a little digging but I doubt this website and possibly even newgrounds, for that matter, will be around forever. 

We're all getting older, true, but I'd still like to look back on some of this stuff later on and relive old memories if nothing else.

[Sinister Clock]

The Clock Crew was really an amazing abnormality that completely influenced my and decided huge paths of my life. I regret taking it for granted and being a shitty teenager during most of it. The Clock Crew is unique, and I don't think anything will ever be quite like it, though I'm sure the members are going to bring their experiences from interacting with everyone here into their lives wherever they are.

Archival is important, this Collab is good proof of that, it was like looking into a portal into 10 years ago. It's easy to forget the details.

Dunno if standardizing stuff would have been better. Part of the CC's charm was everyone had their unique take on the loosely defined world and characters within. Even though we shared so much, it still felt like every movie belonged to the creator, and organising is a bitch. Maybe we could've made something cool with strong leadership, but I don't know if that was ever what the CC was, it was really just a loose assembly of people who wanted to make stuff for each other for various reasons.

I've been wondering what the next CC is, what the next generation of kids wanting to make stuff is. It's probably tumblr communities now, which feels a bit vaster and colder to me than the CC was, but maybe that's just because I'm not super involved with it.

It's always strange bringing up CC to someone who's outside it, but I'm always proud to be part of it.


e: wasn't there a thing with archive.org archiving CC movies or something?