Alluding to the financial whiz kids whose complex derivatives had disastrous global spillover effects, this stop motion film traces the origin of call options to the tulip bulb market of the 1700s. Like Frankenstein’s monster, pride and ambition lead to a global road trip of destruction from the geysers of Iceland, the suburbs of the US to the riots in Greece. Footage from Flickr and youtube were composited and manipulated frame by frame to achieve a painterly effect.