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This House Has People In It

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What a nice, normal family. // Image credit to Adult Swim

In my last blog post, I touched upon Alan Resnick and AB Video Solutions/Wham City and some of their ARGS/metafiction projects. However, I specifically didn’t mention one project of his due to my plans of giving it it’s own post.

This House Has People In It is another project done by AB Video Solutions for Adult Swim. What may seem like a simple video of surveillance footage of a typical suburban family is actually only surface level entry into an extra two hours worth of hidden videos to find. Aside from Cloverfield, this is probably my favourite online ARG. The amount of time that blatantly went into it is astounding and it’s without a doubt Wham City’s best work to date.

THE ARG

To offer an in-depth synopsis of this wouldn’t even scrape the surface level of what it’s truly about. The family we see throughout the video are preparing for the youngest son’s birthday party but then start to notice that something is terribly wrong with their teenage daughter. What starts off ominous (thanks to the new horror trend of found footage, I suppose) turns into a surrealist horror. As much as I’d love to discuss the intricacies of This House Has People In It’s ARG, finding out things for myself was one of the best wild rides I’ve ever been on. If you’ve not got time to put a few hours aside and investigate for yourself then watch YouTube Night Mind’s video explaining it, as he covers almost all areas. I’ll link some other helpful links down below too to help you with your investigation.

Just a fair warning, there’s a certain character in this series found in some hidden videos and when I saw them I genuinely couldn’t sleep that night. Have fun!

Hi Boomy.

Further reading:

Guide to the entire ARG (MUST SEE!)

AB Surveillance Solutions

The Sculptor’s Playground Video

The Sculptor’s Clayground Website

Vice Interview with Alan Resnick

Alan Resnick: A Modern Enigma

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Hello handsome

If you know anything about internet ARGs, then the name Alan Resnick is probably familiar to you. A comedian and performance artist, his ARGs (most of which he’s developed with his comedy troupe Wham City Comedy and their video production company ‘AB Video Solutions’) are notorious for their intricacy and borderline eeriness, while still being whimsical and darkly comedic enough to enjoy. I thought I’d take the chance today to introduce my readers to his videos.

ALANTUTORIAL

Hey tutorial heads! // Alan Resnick

In this series, Alan plays a man with an implied mental disability who wants to become a successful Youtube tutorial channel. What starts off as simple, yet odd, tutorials that almost borderline into parody turn into a surreal horror-comedy.

WORTH WATCHING FOR: Alan himself, you grow to love him and genuinely care for his well being.

LIVE FOREVER AS YOU ARE NOW

Where can I get a Teddy of my own? // Adult Swim and AB Video Solutions

A one off comedy skit done for Adult Swim, where Alan (no relation to Alantutorial…unless?) a ‘hot young tech wizard’ has managed to create a programme that creates a virtual copy of your mind and thus allowing you to achieve immortality.

WORTH WATCHING FOR: Resnick’s surrealist humour is strongest in this skit.

UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR

I wish all commercials were like this. // Adult Swim and AB Video Solutions

Another video done for Adult Swim, this starts off with quite literally unedited footage of a bear and then seemingly becomes a commercial for medicine becomes something much more sinister. Described as a, “sucker punch to the senses“, I’d say just watch it and see for yourself.

WORTH WATCHING FOR: The bear. And heavy metal music.

Stay tuned for later posts where I’ll be covering some of his other works (and some you see here) in more depth.

Further reading: AB Video Solutions Website Alan’s Website Alantutorial Channel Playlists of his videos and some explanation videos (1) (2)

the introduction

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Hi,

I’m Orla, which you most likely could be able to tell from the title of this blog.

ARGs, short for Alternative Reality Games, have always fascinated me since I first found them. Any internet urban myth or horror story, I’ve always been deeply intrigued. Most of my Youtube subscription box is channels dedicated to breaking down and debunking them. But then I thought, who’s got the time to sit down and watch a half an hour long video about a Kanye West based video game that secretly was a cult indoctrination?

If only there was a blog that I could easily access and ramble on about the newest ARGs that fascinated me? Maybe this university assignment came at the right time.

Before I got into anything serious on this first post (I mean, we barely know each other, I’m hardly going to be telling you my mum’s maiden name), I thought I should give a brief description of what an ARG is for future reference.

All credit goes to user InsideAMind on Youtube who makes great ARG explanation videos!

Aside from the name, an ARG is a interactive storytelling method that uses the real word as it’s setting. Various things like social media and websites are used to portray the story to the audience as they can also help solve the plot/mystery. Some great examples are ILoveBees, The Cloverfield Universe, The Dark Knight ARG or Alan Resnick’s This House Has People In It (which I’ll touch upon on a later blog post). I’ll also just be talking about general quirky videos and stuff I find online.

hi i’m orla.

Talk more soon 🙂

ps. feel free to message me about any cool ARGs or stuff, i’ll be making a twitter soon