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Magic Butter

Long, long ago, when the Internet was in its infancy and websites were still fun, the most fun of all was to be had on the Bullseye Art website. I stumbled in there via the amazing Woodcutter, a kind of surrealist interactive adventure. For a long time, Bullseyeart was what I would show people (along with Snarg and E8Z.com) when I wanted to impress or amuse them.

Then one day, Bullseye got corporatized. They started doing stuff for brands, and all of their fun cartoons and Flash experiments got pushed to one side, with only a select few left for viewing. That phase didn’t seem to last very long, and then Bullseye seemed to disappear off the web.

Long and dark were those bullseyeless days. I blogged about it once before, and seemed to hit a nerve with a lot of people.

Last week, somebody mentioned haiku to me and obviously the first thing that sprung to mind was Hooptie Goo. I googled Hooptie Goo to see whether any remnants of his dragon wisdom still remain on the web and (not the first time this has happened) top of Google’s pile was a link to my friend Scot Hacker’s site. But just below that were a couple of links to a site called magicbutter.com. I clicked through and… hit gold (or perhaps a bar of magic butter). Seems the folks from Bullseye Art are back, along with all of their back-catalogue. Check out Magic Butter, but you should probably keep an afternoon free to do so. I recommend you try one or two of Hooptie Goo’s Haikus first, then check out Internet, the animated series (always my favourite Bullseye creation), before diving in and getting completely lost on the interactive island of the Woodcutter. And then try Miss Muffy, then all the rest.

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