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CultureNet Press: A Proposition to End Homelessness in Vancouver « cgallard — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:41:58 +0000

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Comment on Good Article on the Future of E-lit by Aurelea

Aurelea — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:13:42 +0000

David,

Thank you for sharing this link to Rettberg’s article.
I am considering creating an E-Lit resources page to complement the E-Lit Forum link on this blog. Ideally, it would be of use to Capilano students and other readers who stumble across it. When I set it up, I will be sure to include this Rettberg article along others of his that I have found useful and suggestive.

Aurelea.

Comment on Position Paper #2 by skylerj

skylerj — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:30:42 +0000

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Comment on Carrier (becoming symborg) by harbord

harbord — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:11:40 +0000

I likes the sound effects in this one, as well as the language used for interactivity. It had a sweet 80′s vibe to it, like War Games or the Last Star Fighter. It was also a little creepy, which, as I have argued before, works well online.

Comment on Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales by harbord

harbord — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:05:08 +0000

I really didn’t like this piece. I couldn’t read the poetry fast enough, but what I did read I didn’t really enjoy. The backgrounds were cool. I didn’t like chasing the text at all, but it is very e-literature-y (aka difficult and not fun). I don’t think audio could have saved it, although if I were going to put music to it, I would choose Enya’s Sail Away song.

Comment on Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China by harbord

harbord — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:33:35 +0000

I really enjoyed this piece of “children’s lit”, it respected the reader, whomever that may be, child or adult. It was scary and tense, like a good children’s story should be; children have little control over their environment, and this piece vibrated with the main character’s uncertainty and fear. Her player is her security blanket, the one thing that she can control in this nerve wracking situation.

I liked the sounds, for some reason I love that interference noise. That sound is what you hear in distress beacon messages from a ghost ship that have been picked up by another vessel – it is always erratic and static-y and creepy. It added to the atmosphere of the story for me because of this connection; the father is missing, there has been no communication, they head out on a rescue mission to find him. It’s a classic science fiction scenario that I never get tired of.

I don’t know how to judge the interactivity of these e-lit pieces. There is obviously a rhythm to the stories or poems, and the authors decide when your next move will be to keep a structured pace, maybe like iambic pentameter or another system of scansion, but the e-lit version.

Comment on “I, You, We” by Waber and Pimble by Jen Zimmerman

Jen Zimmerman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:45:45 +0000

1. I think that Carly’s spin on color was quite brilliant, but far too imposed. Personally I don’t buy into the artsy narrow-minded take on what color is supposed to mean. I think society feels this incessant need to label everything, and find some deep/deeper meaning to everything. To me, color is just color. I don’t think that color as a thing has the power that society has bestowed upon it. I believe, that color means something different to each person (if they choose to give color meaning). For me, the “I”, “You” “We’s” could have been in ANY color or combinations of colors and it wouldn’t change my reading, interpretation and feelings towards the piece.
Since we are in this heated topic of color, I thought I would share a true story about a young grade 1 female student. The girl was told to draw a picture of house with grass and a tree and the sun in the sky. So the girl drew the scene and handed to the teacher. The teacher told her that her picture was wrong because the colors weren’t “correct.” The teacher said the grass needs to be green, the sky needs to be blue. The girl said that, that is not how she sees things. She colored the scene the way she saw it in the mornings. With silver dewy grass, and a purple sun rising sky.
2. I didn’t see myself as the “I” but did notice that the “I” was right in the center of the screen and was the only word NOT moving. Because “I” doesn’t move, it could be seen as central or integral to the piece, or perhaps as having more importance. I definitely see the connection of movement to self and others with the specific use of the chosen pronouns.
3. For me, I did not see the words as individual poems, not did I see them as tool to fill a theoretical city as you have put it. I think that I, You We is far more simple than your deep and detailed analysis. Again goes back to my earlier comment of people having to find some deep symbolic meaning in EVERYTHING. The words to me, were, simple, fun, and entertaining. The work was an excellent time waster. I introduced the ELC as a whole to my friend and her 2 daughters this week and her younger daughter (gr. 4) was positively mesmerized by all the twisting, turning, spinning words; she couldn’t take her eyes off the screen. That moment taught me the importance of keeping life simple and not over analyzing everything to death.

Comment on “I, You, We” by Waber and Pimble by koltonsmith

koltonsmith — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:13:34 +0000

In response to #2.

I do find myself behind the noun “I”. The piece seemed to make more sense and was even fun when I made a connection to it. As for the pronouns, I would move the mouse till I found a pronoun that I liked. This piece is almost like Brain Storm Cloud 2.0.