Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
HYPERTEXT WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Gabriela Beristain
Hypertext Fiction Assignment
www.julietmartin.com/oooxxxooo/circle.html
The cover page labeled, answers, gets you right into the hypertext, but it is somewhat confusing since all you see is yes and no in the center. Once you select one of the answers you are introduced to out of the norm text layouts and shapes, some are in the shape of an apple and others have no shape at all. Which in return it makes it more fun to interact with the text; it’s simple, fun, effective. I’m not entirely sure it helps with the literary context of the page.
The contents of the page are not exactly the most happy pieces of literary work as for example; I had faith in the pentacle in the center of the apple that I held. The Goddess had told me so and I believed her. My eyes like tweezers, my teeth like lasers, I ever so ferociously bit that apple square in half with expectations of the pentacle to come. There was not a pentacle in my apple, but a half-eaten transistor in its place. Aghast by my discovery, I started to sink into the earth. In my belly, half a transistor was turning eaten-apple-meat into ones and zeros. “Silicon-circuit-Ulcer!” I wept as Mother Earth continued to swallow me whole. From inside I was being eaten by a man-made computer and from out I was being devoured by the woman who created me.
Like I stated before this is not exactly the happiest piece of poetry but, the thing that makes it work is the simple font used, and also the layout of the whole poem which relies on the left side of the page on a zig-zag pattern, not so flashy but it grabs your attention just enough to make you read the entire poem. This whole webpage design did not include any actual images just text used in a very clever way to create a very simple image.
The content of the page does not really have any substance, the way I think of it its that the author was just in a really depressing state of mind, with nothing else to think or do, and decided to just sit down and type whatever came to the mind and this page is the result of that random moment. Reading the page out of order does not help it at all, in fact it gets confusing at times, but it does have its funny parts as when you click on one of the answers and it gives you a lava lamp shape that asks “How come I can’t find love on my hard drive?” so my answer would be, that the only reason why we cant find love in our hard drives is because it isn’t a tangible thing, unless you are into loving folders and files and if you are, then you have a problem.
Juliet Martin as I discovered upon doing a little bit of research is not exactly the happiest poetry writer all her stuff seems to be dark, simple and sometimes just plain confusing because some of her pieces just do not make sense at all, unless you really want to find the funny side to her work, then and only then you will probably get a slight idea of her work, but since it seems that most of her work is text based and simple, it does not give you the greatest understanding of what her work is all about.
I attempted to give her work a different view, to see if maybe I was not being close minded about her style of writing, but maybe its just me, because the more I looked at her work the more confusing it became, so after a lot of reading on some of her titles like, drowning girls are sexy, 3rd base, and reincarnation of the womb, which is a webpage that tells you a story thru video and sound but in return it gives the feeling that throughout the wholes story the only thing that is really happening is some sort of massive murder, because the sounds are strange and the way the story develops according to the scene order you select its how confusing the story is going to turn out to be.
The webpage over all was original, obscure in some parts, funny in others, and in the end simple but enjoyable.
Hypertext Fiction Assignment
www.julietmartin.com/oooxxxooo/circle.html
The cover page labeled, answers, gets you right into the hypertext, but it is somewhat confusing since all you see is yes and no in the center. Once you select one of the answers you are introduced to out of the norm text layouts and shapes, some are in the shape of an apple and others have no shape at all. Which in return it makes it more fun to interact with the text; it’s simple, fun, effective. I’m not entirely sure it helps with the literary context of the page.
The contents of the page are not exactly the most happy pieces of literary work as for example; I had faith in the pentacle in the center of the apple that I held. The Goddess had told me so and I believed her. My eyes like tweezers, my teeth like lasers, I ever so ferociously bit that apple square in half with expectations of the pentacle to come. There was not a pentacle in my apple, but a half-eaten transistor in its place. Aghast by my discovery, I started to sink into the earth. In my belly, half a transistor was turning eaten-apple-meat into ones and zeros. “Silicon-circuit-Ulcer!” I wept as Mother Earth continued to swallow me whole. From inside I was being eaten by a man-made computer and from out I was being devoured by the woman who created me.
Like I stated before this is not exactly the happiest piece of poetry but, the thing that makes it work is the simple font used, and also the layout of the whole poem which relies on the left side of the page on a zig-zag pattern, not so flashy but it grabs your attention just enough to make you read the entire poem. This whole webpage design did not include any actual images just text used in a very clever way to create a very simple image.
The content of the page does not really have any substance, the way I think of it its that the author was just in a really depressing state of mind, with nothing else to think or do, and decided to just sit down and type whatever came to the mind and this page is the result of that random moment. Reading the page out of order does not help it at all, in fact it gets confusing at times, but it does have its funny parts as when you click on one of the answers and it gives you a lava lamp shape that asks “How come I can’t find love on my hard drive?” so my answer would be, that the only reason why we cant find love in our hard drives is because it isn’t a tangible thing, unless you are into loving folders and files and if you are, then you have a problem.
Juliet Martin as I discovered upon doing a little bit of research is not exactly the happiest poetry writer all her stuff seems to be dark, simple and sometimes just plain confusing because some of her pieces just do not make sense at all, unless you really want to find the funny side to her work, then and only then you will probably get a slight idea of her work, but since it seems that most of her work is text based and simple, it does not give you the greatest understanding of what her work is all about.
I attempted to give her work a different view, to see if maybe I was not being close minded about her style of writing, but maybe its just me, because the more I looked at her work the more confusing it became, so after a lot of reading on some of her titles like, drowning girls are sexy, 3rd base, and reincarnation of the womb, which is a webpage that tells you a story thru video and sound but in return it gives the feeling that throughout the wholes story the only thing that is really happening is some sort of massive murder, because the sounds are strange and the way the story develops according to the scene order you select its how confusing the story is going to turn out to be.
The webpage over all was original, obscure in some parts, funny in others, and in the end simple but enjoyable.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Book Design
This is the Front cover of my book
obviously this is the back of my book, the design I was going for is just based on the tittle
that is why the images are flipped and also the text chosen was playful
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