By
Nick Haramis
May 06, 2008
The last time I was imprisoned in the waiting room of a hospital, I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how many Q-Tips I go through in an average month. Not so for Erik Luchauer and Kevin Antoine, brothers-in-law from Knoxville, Tenessee, who did battle with slogging healthcare monotony by creating Rootclip.com. It's a website through which aspiring Stan Brakhages are invited to add "chapters" to an existing short. Rootclip provided the first two-minute clip, an open-ended plot introduction, and users are asked to finish their story—one one-minute entry at a time.
