The first interview is available in the originally titled “Interview Project” hosted at DavidLynch.com.

Directed by Austin Lynch and Jason S. the project spans 20,000 American miles over 70 days to interview 121 people.  A new interview is promised every 3 days.

The subject of the first interview, now showing at http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com, is Jess, a man in his mid 60s filmed in Needles, CA.

Based on the first interview I won’t attempt to say anything about the whole project other than the obvious, empty truism: it seems Lynchian already.   Trying to judge the entire project based on one interview would be like the tired cliche: You can’t judge a book by its cover.

But I will point out a few yeas and nays of the project website in general.  The “all episodes” tab is impressive in its simplicity.  Thumbnails of interviews that are currently watchable, or will be watchable, are in color, while the future ones are in black and white.  Further wowing me is a short, one line audio clip from the subject that plays when mousing over an interview thumbnail.  This provides context and a teaser of what’s to come.

Still photographs; a map plotting the journey and interviews; and a clean layout all add to the experience.  What takes away is a lack of written information.  It is my bet that those involved in this project wish to keep everything as mysterious as possible thus shunning verbal verbosity.

You also can’t embed the videos.

Interior of The Washington Court Hotel in D.C.

Snowmass Village, CO

Check out EveryScape.com if you haven’t already.  It’s kind of like Google street view — serving up seemless panoramas of select slices of the world — only with EveryScape, you can also go inside (certain) buildings and look around.  There’s a good write up about the site and service at Boston.com.  My favorite feature is “AutoDrive”.  Turn it on and you can roll down Rodeo in your chair without clicking.