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"WTC Aftermath" is an interactive
site with multiple pages navigable from a home page. The
home page will have a flash animation with linkable objects,
allowing the user to navigate to the other parts of the
site.
The flash animation will consist of a number
of animated sequences which engage the user in a dialog
which is both humorous and unpleasant, discussing political,
theological and ethical aspects of the disaster downtown
by placing the user in awkward positions such as first
person singular singing a ridiculous rhyme as they fly
a plane into the towers (see above). Further animations
will cover issues such as the wide scale "cashing
in" on the tragedy, and feature many of the political
figures who have benefited from the attack, including
ex-mayor Giullianni, governor Pataki and president Bush,
all of whom were in low esteem prior to the attack. Others
include the media who have created an enormous industry
around reporting anything and everything vaguely related,
complete with ever-changing graphics, sound effects and
endless reiterated soundbytes; vendors profiting from
fake NYPD and NYFD hats and T-shirts, stores and publication
companies/printers selling "united we stand"
etc. banners, posters, postcards etc. In another part
of the site there will be a "wtc lucky dip"
area (see
wtc lucky dip) where users may wander through the
rubble of the disaster area finding such merchandising
juxtaposed with images of limbs and body parts, forcing
them to reconcile the superficial patriotism available
for money with the real horror of the attack. There will
be many nodes to the site, each following a logic that
presents two fighting sentiments: such as the joy of the
islamic fundamentalists on achieving destruction beyond
conception, in contrast to the horror: the ground swell
of patriotism in contrast to the American foreign policies
that aggravate other nations to hatred: the pointing the
finger to foreign countries as being theocracies while
all the while invoking God to help in their defeat.
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