The centerpiece is a 3-dimensional navigatable "Litfaßsäule". That is the german world for an advertising column. Here in german cities, you find them in almost every other street. They are part of the german culture. This year (2005) we have the 150 years anniversary of the Litfaßsäule.

AdAbsurdum is a pretty big download file (46 MB), since it contains a lot of medium sized texturemaps, some quicktime movies and four more "subsynths" with seperate panels and presets.
And then, there is the "Plointer", a prototype of a dancing figure driven by different motion capture data.

Most of the posters on the Litfaßsäule are pickable by Mouse. They present either some of my former project work, or other personal related things which I happened somehow during the production time of AdAbsurdum.

One Poster contains a clock with an alarm function. A LMB click within the dial will activate/deactivate the alarm (the colour turns from red to green). A LMB click outside of the clock-face will let you set the alarm time.

LMB does either start or stop running an image sequence, or movie or some other effect. Picking the start-up poster and three other ones (black when running them the first time) are triggering a subsynth. RMB picking will give additional information (when www in the submenu is on).