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Hmm ideas....... I have several that I really believe would be phenomenal to do for "the final project", but the main factors that will effect my decision are:

1. Time

2. Supplies

3. Execution

4. Fun

5. Memorable

Unfortunately, the cherry blossoms are in bloom a bit early this year :( . I really wanted to tie them into my final project( something about traveling the world/ Kean and what cherry blossoms mean to people of different countries).

As of right now my options are.

1.  Still EXTEND inanimate Alice( i could totally make it longer ;D)

2. I also wanted to have a parallel of a emotions.... As I have told everyone, i have been struggling with my feeling about Asia for a while, so i wanted to make 2 parallel games. On of the beauty the other of the nightmare. ( maybe through in a third for the aftermath)Words would be replaced by movement of others( like typing:

Stand

I

for I understand

and through in a few phases here and there. like " the frog doesn't leap far from the lily pad

3. Something fun/romantic about my mates( friends) Taking their quotes out of context and adding a little flair. I would post volunteers around campus and need the player to not only roam the campus( or library) relay(read and play??) other E.lit. in the gallery before finding a conclusion!!!

4. or sit back and meditate until something appears...

wishing everyone the best of luck on for the final!!! We are going to be on display!!!! (exciting,no?)

This project was insanely fun, I believe I worked on this almost everyday ( not like all day of course). Mostly, experimenting with different timings of the images/sequences and trying to create a few new views when it come to the background images compared to the text. Also, so it could post, I had to cut the bonus track as well as lower the grade of the pixel level :(. There are a few things I hope to change:
1. Up load it's mirrored video opposite this one.
2. Have a series of videos of different stages in the creation process(maybe)
3. Do something' more with the literary text...(Powerpoint/Flash)
if you have any suggestions for improvement. please let me know.(thanks a mil.)

Middle Kingdom is an electronic literature piece that explores the concept of memories and the emotions that are shared by them. There are several perspectives to this piece . Whether it is serious, satirical, or fun, I want the audience to 'leave with something'.I ask you to think about who/what is speaking and whom/what they are addressing? Middle kingdom can be categorized as Ambient, Kinetic, Audio, Conceptual, Parody/Satire, and a dash of poetry. To 'get it all' I would suggest to watch it more then once. Enjoy!!!

(Blog)13 is an unlucky number....so they say......

Middle Kinngdom is an electronic literature piece that explores the concept of memories and the emotions that are shared by them. There are several perspectives to this piece . Wheather it is serious, saterical, or fun, I want the audience to "leave with something'.I ask you to think about who/what is speaking and whom/what they are addressing? Middle kingdom can be catagorized as Ambient, Kinetic, Audio, Conceptual, Parody/Satire, and a dash of poetry.To 'get it all' I would suggest to watch it more then once. Enjoy!!!

Aid for the presentation :)

Author Discription: Dr. Donna Leishman, has recently completed her PhD in interactive storytelling at the Glasgow School of Art and is principal of 6amhoover. com. Her Masters in Design produced the darkly romantic Little Red Ridinghood in the year 2000.
Also, LRRH is seen as a work of Art, being showcases in several exhibitions over the years

Aside(Diviant)

Identification: Animation/Kinetic; Audio; Flash; JavaScript; Parody/Satire; Visual Poetry or Narrative; Women Authors

Analysis:

Characters: Red:Blonde Hair Brow eyebrows.... Wolf: Popye Forarms.

Stuctually challenging sequences i.e. Multiple browser windows at once, each browser window comtains it's own timeline, yet has a segnificate relationship to the parent window.( For in all)

Content:with out exploring the web, the "reader" will only get a modern re-telling of Little Red Ridinghood, but while exploring, i.e. the diary. AA pre-history of wanting radical change is discovered.



http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/leishman__redridinghood.html

http://www.6amhoover.com/index_flash.html

Referances:
www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2002/webracket/webracket.html

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/events/future/documents/02285578.htm

http://www.crankbunny.com/

http://www.magicbutter.com/

(Blog)11 Pipers Piping, 10 lords a leaping, 9 ladies Dancing......

I have changed everything!!
the title is "unknown" at the moment; i don't want to give away too much information. It is the story of a person longing to return (bleep). Here is the rough before the final draft:

Abstract: This is a short montage dedicated to love.Memories that are gained and moments lost forever. When looking back, some are hazy while others more vivid. It is a dream like sequence that was created to entice the audience to remember....... The piece takes about five minutes to play through. I ask you,what/who/ when do you believe the speaker referring to? There are three distinct ways to view this piece: face value, deeper and parody (it may need a little toughing up.:)

for this project I have Incorporated Windows movie maker and a bit of PowerPoint and a dash of hypertext. I have yet to decide which of the three elements shall be cut( it seems that all do not work in the same medium simultaneously. :(.
Keywords: Ambient,Kinetic, audio,Music, memoir, parody, hypertext. (Some may change)

As of today, the Electronic Lit. plays through( there is no need to click the screen as of yet.)
Map:
Screen 1: Unknown (for now)
Screen 2: Quote "He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct. "
Screen 3: Music swells(Brothers/Full Metal Alchemist (latin version))
Screen 4: Empty highway video (words)
Screen 5: Video of (bleep)
Screen 6: Series of photos(like memories)
Screen 7:Video of (bleep)
Screen 8: Video referring to memories
Screen 9: Roller coater like video
Screen 10:Video of open road
Screen 11:Screen to black
Screen 12: Credits
Screen 13: Video of billy singing the theme song

(Blog) 9 looking so fine ;)!

As of right now, my ideas are all over the place, I had an idea to have a short parody about living abroad.
For example....
(Annoucer style voice)
Being a Foreigner Chapter one.
You are in a local bar and you want a drink, do you:
A. Continue to wait paitiantly.
B.
C.
(Each word would present it's self in a specific way. for example, "wow" would flying in at top speed then explode.)
the player is allowed to "use their gaijin card" to skip a question if they find it too hard.
i want the reader to leave this bit of lit. laughing (if i can make it funny enough).
while the audience "plays" with the lituature, each click produces a sound effect, and based on what is clicked, points are added.
in the end, if the "player" 90% of the points, s/he may get the bonus ending.


Idea 2.
the Sondheim effect
Stephan Sondheim is the father of the American musical, he has inspired many prominate stars/ stories of today such as Desparate housewives, Rent, Sweeny Todd,Westside story to name a few. So, to prove my point( sondheim is everywhere) I wanted to create a( typical) story of boy meets girl with a base of sondheim music.
the screen opens at a theatre the title flashes on the screen. click screen. you have a choice tytical or unusual ending.
you deside to click unsusual ending. the opening credits run, the music swells
For this assignment i need to learn to upload music.
and either learn stop motion or film everything in live action.

Blog

- a readable/playable digital text linked to or embedded in your blog
- a folder visual & sound files, and lexia associated with the text
- a schematic, “map” or timeline to describe the design of your text

Criteria for grade: The hypertext itself will have:
- a navigation or interactive system that is integral to the text’s meaning
- elements where sight, sound, movement, configuration, and other active features of the text play a role in the texts’ reading
- a thematic, symbolic or conceptul focus that allows for a “literary” reading;
- elements that are creative, well composed, and appropriate to the text’s theme/focus

Blog

- a readable/playable digital text linked to or embedded in your blog
- a folder visual & sound files, and lexia associated with the text
- a schematic, “map” or timeline to describe the design of your text

Criteria for grade: The hypertext itself will have:
- a navigation or interactive system that is integral to the text’s meaning
- elements where sight, sound, movement, configuration, and other active features of the text play a role in the texts’ reading
- a thematic, symbolic or conceptul focus that allows for a “literary” reading;
- elements that are creative, well composed, and appropriate to the text’s theme/focus

(Blog) 8 days a week

Beside the obvious visual spectacle. Faith uses words within words with in letters to show the authors definition of "faith".
sound is paramount in this piece each word while it enters or exits uses a sound motion to give a convey a deeper meaning of the word being re arranged. for example we not only read winking neon. we can see and hear "winking neon".

i would say Regime Change close in similarity to Twelve blue,whereas the reader clicks around the screen to unfold several options, based on the words chosen by the reader some pages may be lost. all pages ore move onto a different screen. The snippets revealed concern huge changes in how the US government conduct themselves.(Brush/Lincoln/Kennedy)

Like all electronic literature, the reader must be engaged in the piece to get results. None( except disappearing Rain) allow the audience to "skip ahead to find the conclusion. Faith offers a change to experience literature with multiple senses, this allows the reader to become more engaged in the literature.This does add levels of interpretation.

(Blog)7th Heaven

Inanimate aLicE
Inanimate Alice is the story of a girl growing up in the turn of the century. well travelled, She is some what lonely and only has her digital friend Brad for comfort.Although most of the series themes are heavily set in "technology. This story mostly focuses on spectacle. The first meaning of the story is simple, but the second requires more "thought".

Inanimate Alice: Japan could be described as fiction, (and woman writers). I would recommend you play it more than once, first just for the story, then "fiddle around the screens a bit" for what you can find hidden.( some are obvious). but to choose this separate path, the story may stop or continue on without you.( so choose wisely) . I made this hypertext based on fun, relax, i can guarantee that you(might) not miss anything.


Hope you like it :)

(Blog) 6 up in the mix with some twix. chicks like to fix blix

Hmm. i seem to be unable to upload my site map. so i shall bring it to class on Monday.
A quick summary of my work.
Mostly everything is set in stone. I wanted to have an alternative ending, but as of right now it does not seem appropriate.the plot revolves around a young girl named Alice. it should read like "photo" of her everyday life in a new country( Japan.) I think it would be best to play the Electronic Lit. of "inanimate Alice:China" to have a feel for the character, but at the same time i wouldn't( my technical skills are not that fantastico:).
Everything is running well, and can't wait for presentations :) I hope by the 7th blog i can jot down more info. :)

(Blog) 5 Dollar Foot Long

When it comes to using googlesites I have found everything to be up to par. I have not really dabbled in the site( i want to have all my working process via Power point....
for a sucessful hypertext i need.
*add background animations
*more outside links
And more music:). As of right now the only problem i am having is with the up loading of music. I can add it to the website, but it only comes out as a downloadable site:( Of course i will keep working on this until the very end. and we're off!!!!!!

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 1

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 1
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Happy Valentine's Day to all!!!!
Hmm ideas for my first hypertext.... well let's see...
I wanted to do an explanation / parody of the anime series Neon Genesis Evengelion...
Because this series is complicated i would like to make the site as well. for example: Shinji( the lead protagonist) as a complex that has him fall in love with every one who shows him a bit of love.
the audiacne would choose whom shinji would fall in love with...Asuka, Rei, Misato or Kaoru. based on who Shinji chooses as his love will result in the end of the world or redemption.

the hyper text will be as complicated as the series. Some hyperlinks will be hidden( those that are hidden will give a hints to the better desetion or more back ground info. of the characters.
Sometimes the audience will have 3 choices, sometimes none. i am trying to decide if the links will open up into a separate menu or not....
to be continued

the ultimate trinity

write about some of the pieces you have been reading in EL1 and list three possibilities for the review assignment.

I will re-post the assignment sheets as .rtfs. I think the problem was that they were word 2007 (docx).

The Diviant: Posession of Christian Shaw: what can i say WOW. after finally completing the piece( besides this feeling of pride) it left me stunned.......
i would recomment having a partner when "doing" this piece. besides being an excellent conversation starter. with your partner, you are able to find more than one hidden thing, and have someone there to talk-through the process with.


Inanimate Alice: By far this is my favorite piece of electronic literature. the plot is based on an 8 year old girl named Alice and her animated friend Brad. Brad acts at her conconce as well as her hidden courage. the plot is expressed through sound files and words( there are no spoken words through out the piece, but actions, such as snow falling/the sound of Alice's mom's car.) the music/sound effects leaves the audiance's heart racing to find out what happens next.


Red Ridding Hood:created by the same author as the diviant, red riding hood takes us on a journy t Interesting, but it always ends with the same conclution( the baby changes though.....) the verdict is still out on this work.... to be continued!

Trying to be Creative (Blog 2- the re-write)

The Internet: the final frontier. These are the class-notes of the starship Electronic Literature. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new websites, to seek out new literature and new references, to boldly go where no one has gone before. dan da da dan da da dan......

Captians Log, Star date 2211, we have just begun to read an Electronic poem entitled"Frequently Asked Questions about "Hypertext". Not only does the poem allow the reader to read the poem but also criticism from several well educated individuals as well as "Fandom".

All we can analyse is that the critics at first give meaning to the poem, answering the unanswerable question" what is it about??
well it could be broken up into several different meanings:
1. Transsexual menage toia between the antagonist and
2. Music, Art and Knowledge and repressed sexuality have been transformed into beer names and questions.
3. The stupidity of the BUSH administration.( that supports the original author's disappearance)
4.Sex machine, literally
5. Using Hypertext, we then have "the Post transsexual or Posttranny Rereading." unfortunity, this debate could not occur;the two critics most knowledgeable in these matters died/committed suicide/were murdered
the argument of HERHIM and HALF and explanations and theories of the murders

I thought this was truly hilarious!! i could'nt help but notice all the references to pop culture. how the critics try to discredit each other with below the belt(ha) comments.it reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion... How people from all walk of like spend hours and hours researching the manga and anime just to prove there ideas(which i may add are very far fetched in most cases.
Througout the reading i fould several quotes that had me rolling:

"all this technological intervention—the drug therapy, the cosmetic operations, the violent sex-reassignment surgery itself—is a hybrid woman-machine or seductive technosexual cyborg."

"otherwise-dickless alien appears to relieve himself in the bushes (thee pee there) with a steaming stream of vinegar; super slow motion shows the corrosive effects on the foliage. Household vinegar has a pH of 3.0 (three), versus normal human urine (4.6 to 8.0)."

"With black humor some noted that tech support was more successful in recovering their computer files than were the trauma doctors in reviving the critics."

the reading technique i used for this site was......clicking everything!! It may be cause by Twelve blue or Christian Shaw. but i constantly have a feeling that i may miss something..... I started by reading the poem...(raises one eyebrow)Clicked around, read something about a murder, but the quote of hyperlink g Hierarchical Electronic Recombinating Hypertext Interactive Matrix (HER/HIM), brought to you by yours truly at HerHim.org." made me wonder were did they come up with Euan Mcgreggor?

Richards and Allman.....It would be a little romantic if it were a double suicide(after all the reticule they had to suffer for their careers, they wanted to end it all together) and i can"t think of a reason that All-man(yet a woman) could possibly kill Richards.

English pedagogy and rhetoric is a must to desyfer all the opinions thrown at the reader simultaneously. Also, a slight reference to pop culture does help with deeper understanding. I would definitely read this on my own... Because it was a parody in which i
"got it" made me enjoy it just a wee bit more....

this poem reminds me of something a friend told me in high school(he had a few poems of his published. "My poem 'ode to steak" is about my love of steak, that's all"

How sweet it is to be understood(Blog 1, the rewrite)

How insanely confused i am. .... Twelve Blue

I tried to think of the electric text as a song, or musical notes. How does it sound aloud, what would make it understandable.
Got lost.......
Opened everything up at once
Got Really lost.......
Tried to read each page twice....
Still a bit lost......
The tangets/ off topic fascinating rants do not make sense out of order. I hope i will understand this reading soon :(

At first i read a few pages and found that the choices no longer existed. and like a dork. i thought back to the beginning. "follow me before the choices disappear, and began to highlight the page so i could see the hypertext again!!!
(of course others have thought of this before, but the feeling of pride still lingers)
I have become obsessed, I WILL FIND THE SHALLOW MEANING!!!!! or meanings!


Round 2

This was my view after reading 12 blue the first time( well several times over the course of a day or so) but after taking a break, and then going back, now...... i like it.

after reading Liegh's quote ""I need it long so I can get the flow I wish." a light switch turned on...... seriously.

12 blue is now for the results, but for the journey the reader embarks on.
every new discovery
every phase
is for the beat. the melody that should go thought the audiences' cranium. like a live Jazz performance. you know the atmosphere, that time, that sound and feeling can only happen once.and will never be repeated if you returned.no matter how hard a person may try, there is a slim chance that that orchestration will ever repeat itself. something will be different.
it is good to know that once the audiacne finishes 12 blue, unlike a traditional novel,they may return to 12 blue and get a completely different perspective of the main characters.
this time i tried not to cheat(so much) i found that all the stories that had endings (pardon my french) but SUCKED...

Also, like our memories, thing, people,places all can get mixed together.

p.s.maybe because i am from Florinda..... all the locations mentioned in the reading, during the month mentioned seem a bit cold/ blue to me...lol