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| date = September 30, 2005 | | date = September 30, 2005 | ||
− | | title = Barrel - Part 1 | + | | title = 1: Barrel - Part 1 |
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| image = barrel_cropped_(1).jpg | | image = barrel_cropped_(1).jpg | ||
− | | titletext = Don't we all. | + | | titletext = Don't we all. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The comic shows a young boy floating in a barrel in a seemingly endless ocean. It comments on the unlikely optimism, and perhaps naïveté, people sometimes display. The boy is completely lost, it would seem hopelessly alone, without any plan or control of the situation. Yet, rather than afraid or worried, he is instead quietly curious: "I wonder where I'll float next?" | |
− | + | The title text expands on the philosophical content, with the boy representing the average human being: wandering through life, with no real plan, quietly optimistic, always opportunistic, and clueless as to what the future may hold. | |
− | This is the first in a | + | The isolation of the boy may also represent the way in which we often feel lost through life, never knowing quite where we are, believing that there is no one to whom to turn. |
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+ | This is the first in a five-part series of comics whose parts were randomly published during the first several dozen strips. The series features a [[:Category:Barrel|character]] that is not consistent with what would quickly become the [[xkcd]] [[stick figure]] style. The character is in a barrel. | ||
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+ | In [[1110: Click and Drag]] there is a reference to this comic at {{1110|1|n|48|e}}. | ||
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+ | After Randall released the full [http://liveweb.archive.org/web/20070207052159/http://www.xkcd.com/barrel.html The Boy and his Barrel] story on xkcd it has been cleaer that the original [[Ferret]] story should also be included aas part of the barrel series. | ||
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+ | The full series can be found [[:Category:Barrel|here]]. But below they are listed in the order Randall has put them in his collection linked to above: | ||
* [[1: Barrel - Part 1]] | * [[1: Barrel - Part 1]] | ||
* [[20: Ferret]] | * [[20: Ferret]] | ||
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* [[25: Barrel - Part 4]] | * [[25: Barrel - Part 4]] | ||
* [[31: Barrel - Part 5]] | * [[31: Barrel - Part 5]] | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | * This is the first | + | *This was the 5th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. |
− | * | + | **The previous comic was [[2: Petit Trees (sketch)]]. |
+ | **The next was [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]]. | ||
+ | *Original title: "Barrel" | ||
+ | *Original [[Randall]] quote: "He's fairly upbeat about the situation!" | ||
+ | *This was one of the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|thirteen first comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on Friday September 30, 2005. | ||
+ | *This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006. | ||
+ | **It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others. | ||
+ | **The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44. | ||
+ | *This is the first of the original drawings that was not drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]]. | ||
+ | *A more realistic description of the behavior of a barrel in water is here: [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/should-dwarves-stand-up-in-floating-barrels/ Wired Science: Should Dwarves Stand Up in Floating Barrels?] | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 05]] | [[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 05]] | ||
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[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] | ||
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