The story Strings contained a motion picture of words. One word that stood out to me was 'haha'. Once I clicked on it the word took on a slinky effect and become longer across the page, as if growing into a bigger laugh.
After clicking on Argument 2 the choice of words that were presented were 'yes', 'no', and 'maybe'. These three words appeared separately and at times one word would overshadow the other two words. This image reminded me of the internal battle of uncertainty that goes through the mind when trouble with indecision. This piece is different but I found it somewhat relatable.
In the piece Dawn I first noticed the sound effects. The sound was extremely distracting and resembled popcorn popping or a tree as it breaks away from its trunk. It became difficult reading the text as it would fade in and out.
The Jew's Daughter was interesting as the text in the story would change after mousing over the highlighted word. I lost count of how many screens changed. I'm wondering what the pattern is regarding what changes are made specifically and why certain words are highlighted. Sometimes the highlighted terms or changes would include one word or an entire line of words.
After clicking on a box at the top of the page a drop box appeared allowing the reader to turn to any page that is typed in the box. I typed in page 700 which read, "colorfully eyecatching, in one recess of a caraboard display unit". It's a puzzle that never ends.
This inspired an idea for my "imagined self", images that never end.
1. I'm at the beach, looking at the never ending ocean
2. At playground, on swing, a push starts me off and momentum takes over
3. Lying on the roof of my house looking at the sky, gazing at the endless stars
Just a few rough ideas
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Reading/exploring Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue.
I approached this assignment with the hope of having a better appreciation for electronic literature at the end of the reading but I'm not even sure I reached the end.
Since I began reading Twelve Blue I've wanted to pull out my hair in strands like the interactive threads of the story.
As my first strategy I clicked on all the hyperlinks. I had imagined reading through hyperlinks wouldn't provide much flow to the reader but direct them away from the story. In this case I was directed to different scenes of the story with no real connection between them. This came to a sudden stop when the story reached a painting. From this point I wasn't able to continue, I was stuck on one page.
Next I decided to use the different color threads as a guide for the story. I chose to click on all the green threads and each one, again, provided me with different areas of the story without any unity among the sections. I felt as though I was randomly page hopping through a book
Lastly, I tried sticking to one specific thread and clicked on it until it displayed ever scene on that thread. I think I was able to get through more areas of the story but I still encountered the same problem, big abrupt leaps from one scene to a completely different one. This made it difficult to follow the story, not to mention grasp the author's intention.
Since I began reading Twelve Blue I've wanted to pull out my hair in strands like the interactive threads of the story.
As my first strategy I clicked on all the hyperlinks. I had imagined reading through hyperlinks wouldn't provide much flow to the reader but direct them away from the story. In this case I was directed to different scenes of the story with no real connection between them. This came to a sudden stop when the story reached a painting. From this point I wasn't able to continue, I was stuck on one page.
Next I decided to use the different color threads as a guide for the story. I chose to click on all the green threads and each one, again, provided me with different areas of the story without any unity among the sections. I felt as though I was randomly page hopping through a book
Lastly, I tried sticking to one specific thread and clicked on it until it displayed ever scene on that thread. I think I was able to get through more areas of the story but I still encountered the same problem, big abrupt leaps from one scene to a completely different one. This made it difficult to follow the story, not to mention grasp the author's intention.
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