Description
The site features images of Eric Wu acting out almost 300 so-called "emotions" requested by readers. Although the earliest images uploaded depicted such traditional emotions as happiness, anger and fear, the scope rapidly broadened to include other mental states ("reserved", "flirtatious") and states with non-psychological components ("psychotic gaze", "sneeze coming"). Some images display Eric's imagined reactions to very specific situations such as "Working on a tech support line, answering your 500th call of someone who claims he can't send email", or envisage physical activity as in "I would like to see Eric hurt physically. Preferably, he falls down long stairs...like in The Exorcist or something". Eric sometimes plays with the suggestions, as when "Stoned" featured him being hit with stones and "Procrastination" was simply labeled NOT FINISHED YET.
Eric conceded in one interview that the site was "pointless" but considered it justified by the e-mail feedback he had received.
Read more about this topic: Eric Conveys An Emotion
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