Category Archives: NEW MEDIA

So very proud of friend and teacher Steve Ersinghaus for achieving the Reading Room Prize at Hypertext ’07 in Manchester, England for his novel The Life of Geronimo Sandoval.  Thanks to Mark Bernstein for the heads up and for his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I can’t pretend to have anything but a repressed by time and ignorance excited ambition of producing in hypertext, a good friend and former instructor of mine (though I still learn from him) deserves some high praise for his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Aside from the personal-via-e-mail comment about having "Post Office scary eyes," the post about self-image has inspired a thought. I’m considering taking photos of all parts of my body and scattering them into a collage of sorts that can be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Great post at 2 Blowhards: Michael, providing examples from the current AARP magazine issue, points out how graphic design has seriously messed up the mapping purpose of the Table of Contents. We’ve become a visual society and have gone back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Religon & Ethics is a PBS show I’ve just tumbled upon (ironing=can’t compute=must do two things at once so as not to waste time [I even use my left hand to open jars and drawers and do things while my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m not sure how I feel about this and wonder exactly what it means to us in our present and future web-play. Reading one of my regular stops, Jane at Asymmetrical Information, I noticed the Amazon ad module on the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Michael of 2 Blowhards had asked his readers what songs they loved to sing along to, and Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz came to my mind immediately.  Well, Michael kindly spent some time digging around You-Tube and found this one among … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This evening I was pleased to attend the premiere showing of Ruth and Bob, A Love Story, a 40-minute film put together by a couple of friends relating the story of a couple who met during WWII, married and are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is a bit more like it, though not the true me.  I tried but grew frustrated and gave up making black crepe drapes in Photoshop. Continue reading →

I can’t live this pink life much longer but in changing the look here, I decided I may as well strike up a new theme instead of just going back to the prior arrangement. However, one more thought occurred to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

UPDATE: Done. Down to about 60 Spinning posts to move over to Hypercompendia.  Moved about a month’s worth at a time between heatpress mounting posters.  When I’m done, unless there’s a hotsy-totsy new media issue that I absolutely need to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

hyper – 1. excessively active, behaving in an overexcited or hyperactive way.  2. excitable, easily excited, or having a high-strung temperament.  Syn. overexcited, manic, agitated, hectic, frenzied. compendia – (compendium) – 1. short account, a comprehensive but brief account of … Continue reading → Continue reading →