Weird little floating talking ball and a dreary life

May 15, 2004 11:17 AM

I'm looking for a series of flash movies linked on Mefi dealing with a guy talking about dreary life, and his weird little floating and talking ball. It's probably nothing like what I've described, but can anybody point me in the right direction anyway?
posted by ashbury to MetaFilter-Related at 11:17 AM (13 comments total)

They went thataway...
posted by i_cola at 11:20 AM on May 15, 2004

No, THAT way.
posted by squirrel at 11:24 AM on May 15, 2004

Oh, oh, I know this one. Marquis posted it a while back, but the thread he posted it to is 404. The MeTa thread about it still exists. I think the series of flash animations was called "Strindberg and Helium" -- you might try googling that.
posted by onlyconnect at 1:08 PM on May 15, 2004

These are not the flash movies you are looking for. Move along.
posted by naxosaxur at 1:15 PM on May 15, 2004

Strindberg + Helium
posted by mr.marx at 1:21 PM on May 15, 2004

My vote's for Strindberg and Helium as well. Helium's great. What a gas!
posted by dobbs at 2:30 PM on May 15, 2004

but the thread he posted it to is 404.

an invalid CFML (cold fusion markup language) construct is a far cry from 404, file not found.
posted by quonsar at 3:40 PM on May 15, 2004

*sniff* my finest hour, obliterated!
posted by Marquis at 6:40 PM on May 15, 2004

Sounds like Tron.
posted by bingo at 7:13 PM on May 15, 2004

strindberg and helium it is! Thank you very much, guys. The reason why I needed to find it was because, absolutely out of nowhere and who knows how many months after seeing these flash movies, I had little Helium's voice and antics running through my head on a permanent loop. Perhaps I can now get some sleep at night instead of hearing Helium and dire pronouncements of death and decay. . .
posted by ashbury at 8:07 PM on May 15, 2004

Are you talking about those Zoloft ads? With the little unhappy ball thingie?

Hmm, sounds more like those jumpy little XoloX, not Zoloft.
posted by Shane at 9:06 PM on May 15, 2004

this xolox is even jumpier.
posted by the aloha at 7:42 AM on May 16, 2004

Though the comments might be missing, the post in question can be seen here. Second from the top.
posted by kaibutsu at 9:39 PM on May 16, 2004