Monday, December 14, 2009

Who's Assisting Who?

Mouse Assisted Interplay is a concept by Vanessa Harden. It is an imagined dating service where people meet and interact through their pet mice. Because if you're a creep with a mouse as a pet, the only other people who can tolerate you are others with rodents.

She says the project was inspired by mouse fanciers - ‘an existing subculture that breeds and shows prize winning rodents’. I don't know if that even exists, but if it does, that's not just a shitty hobby, but nasty gross. The idea combines this interest in mice with current trends like internet dating and speed dating. And vermin.

Here's how it "works": The mice owners would meet online, choosing a potential mate based on their mouse’s breeding profile. A retarded looking wearable tube habitat allows the owners to have their mice meet, and also promotes human to human interaction when they're not dodging the laughing crowds. The habitat has a number of features including a docking mechanism, which connects the two users together. While the mice instigate the encounter, the aim is to encourage dialogue between the owners, because nothing stimulates conversation more than being locked to an apparatus that you mouse is fucking in.

If this ever leaves the concept stage, I hope to try it out. and by "it", I mean punch Vanessa Harden in the face.

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