Category Archives: NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Diane Greco on First Person

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Susan

Thankfully I’ve been directed to the crossroads of hyperfiction journeys by Mark Bernstein and now that I’m back on track, ordered some stuff and wandered around to find Diane Greco’s website and this: First-person narration in fiction ought to do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Writing for New Media – The Classics?

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Susan

Well, either none of my readers are into new media or those who may be chose to giggle in secret. I was doing just fine with this book by Andrew Bonime and Ken Pohlmann, breezing through the basic introduction and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: A Blow by Blow

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Susan

Some terrific insight into the process of hyperlinking on if:books post, On Collaborating With the Reader. This is the type of thing I’m struggling to teach myself with Macromedia Flash (and hopefully Storyspace some day soon).  The stories are written … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Writing for New Media – The Talmud

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Susan

I picked this up at the last book sale and started going through the first few pages this evening to diversify my reading of novels and philosophy.  The beginning is much of what was presented in the New Media course … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Technology

Posted on May 24, 2006 by Susan

Maybe I don’t have to learn the hard way if I wait (and live!) long enough.  An Automatic Text-to-Scene Conversion development program at AT&T Labs may make it so much easier to build multimedia images by making the program user … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Delirium

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

Delirium is not quite new media perhaps, but just as this Cirque du Soleil onstage presentation uses new media effects it could be a base of ideas in creating a new media digital format of the show.  It has been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Links

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Susan

There’s always an intriguing assortment of links on Anne’s Ample Sanity, but these two I checked out this morning bear following further: Splotch – An exciting bombardment of work on the cutting edge, videos included, that may come to represent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Bit of History

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Susan

Nice rundown on the base of interactive children’s books by if.books complete with pictures to call up memories to help us understand direction of the written word. I’d never had the opportunity between generations to come across the My Adventure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Life Shorts

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Susan

I have posted and deleted three entries so far this morning, realizing that I have a higher tolerance for my own complaints than others.  Then too, weblogs can easily serve as personal diaries, but with readers, even those who sympathize, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Egg Flash

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Susan

True to form, the moment I post a whine the guilt turns to inspiration and action. So there were several images I took of an egg in various poses (as much as I could coax out of my model) and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Pause

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Susan

Haven’t played with Flash8 in a week; feeling weary and worn out and useless.  Feeling I’m not up to this, feeling who am I kidding?  Until I have the playtime for myself–and that means chores all done–don’t feel I should … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Quoth

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Susan

Wow.  Looks like some neat new stuff happening in IF with sound and relationships.  Check out Quoth. (Thanks to Dennis Jerz for the link) Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Realistically

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Susan

Besides the technical aspects of making story a multimedia event–and the time consumed in learning them, I might add–there is a host of natural, normal everyday occurrences that must be kept in mind when words are enhanced by visuals and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Writing by Art

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Susan

There are fourteen of them; pen and ink renderings of local barns done by a local artist.  The detail amazes me, intricacy reflecting both skill and patience.  When he came in, I’d asked him if he’d yet done the barn … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: My First Animation

Posted on April 16, 2006 by Susan

Between the deviled eggs and the coconut custard pie I’ve been working on Macromedia Flash 8 and was finally able to make a title text move and shake.  Nope, I don’t know how to link to it here yet, plus … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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