100 DAYS PROJECT: #40
Evilution 2
Following today’s lead, I tried to go back to my first story, #8 Evilution and to my horror discovered it was poetics and for heaven’s sake, I’m in Susie Realist mode today so it took some doing. But I pulled out one of the writing spaces from #8 and went from there. It also happened to be one that I blatantly stole from Steve and Cormac in style if not text, that is the repetition of the verb phrase to intensify the mood or follow the movement of the whale in this case.
From there, I had decided to practice again with images in hypertext and besides, it gave me some Photoshop playtime. Since I didn’t have any images of plains or the sea, I figured I’d take a very contemporary path and simply used gradient, flipping it upside down for land or sea, threw in some filter effects and color changes and voila! A modernist view of the sea at sunset and the plains at high noon.
What I was most involved in here was a testing of yet another mapping structure; there are four paths, but they all doubleback to the point of origin where two branched off into another two. Or something like that. (NOTE: There’s a “Click to enlarge Map” here)
There are some paragraph breaks that didn’t seem to export properly into html so I’ll be poking in here to fix those plus work on the text on top of image code.
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