Danielle Tagerty
March 7, 2007
Brian Stefans
Multimedia Production
Hypertext Fiction Assignment
I didn’t overly enjoy the function of this hypertext fiction. I liked it, but it was very simple. It could have been so much more involved, and technical, but it had a very simple set-up. There wasn’t really any bells or whistles for the project. I chose this project because I liked the text, but as far as the technical aspect is concerned it was far too simple. I liked the hypertext that had the different body parts you could chose a lot. So I suppose I did not really enjoy interacting with it, because there was not much to interact with. Out of all of the hypertext, I liked the one with the body parts. Being able to pick the body part and read how the author hurt himself or herself; I thought that was really cool. This one was definitely not involved enough. This hypertext started with the answers to a question. You either picked yes or no and it brought you to a poem. If you clicked on an aspect of the poem it brought you to a different page. Sometimes the poems would lead you back to the main page with the choice of yes or no. One of the poems was about an apple in relation to the sun. The poem was in the shape of an apple. The interaction of the text with the shape it formed was appealing to the mind and eye. This interaction of the text with the shape it formed neither essential nor detrimental to the project. It made it more interesting. “As I gazed at the golden delicious sun, it turned into an apple. The apple floated and fell furiously into my waiting code-barren mouth.” The name of the website was Answers. The idea behind it was that you were supposed to be giving answers to the poems and they would lead to the consequence of your answer.Some of the pages were just one line like, “Would you still love me if the world was my brain?” The author would make it more complex by placing this one line within a pattern. This caused you to have to search for the line. A lot of the hypertext’s interaction was following patterns with your eyes and having to scroll with them. It was like following a trail of breadcrumbs. This technique really didn’t have anything to do with the text. There was no journey-theme, but it made the reader be more involved with the poem. My favorite part of the poem was, “This won’t hurt a bit. You can pinch every nerve, and your fleshy flimsy lip-gums willingly cry before my eyes… blood curdling scream.”The hypertext wasn’t that involved; all together there was probably six links. I don’t believe that the setup of the project makes it any harder to understand. It is not a fiction piece that follows any semblance of a plot. For me it is hard to determine whether poetry is “good-writing.” Being an artist the best way I can explain it is that there is no structured way to write poetry, much like art. You cannot look at someone’s painting and tell him or her, “No, no, no you did it all wrong.” It is just not how it works. Did anyone tell Picasso that he could not paint people with only one eye? Art and poetry are what you make of it as the author or artist and as a person. It cannot be judged on a scale. Many try to, but they should not. I enjoyed the poetry in the hypertext. It reminded me of something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, like a memory someone tells you about that you can’t remember. When someone says, “You did this, this, and this… you don’t remember?” That is what this painting reminded me of. “Instantly infected and swollen by the foreign fluoresces, the pore bulged and blossomed into a cyber-cider cyst. It turned golden delicious. It was the sun, a golden delicious apple.” This is my favorite quote in the entire hypertext. There wasn’t a lot of information on the Internet about the author, Juliett Martin. I would have liked to learn more about her. There was actually one line that explained that very well. “How come I can’t find love on my hard drive? Maybe I am looking for too much from my computer.” I found it very entertaining that I was trying to find out more information about this author, and I couldn’t and then I read this line in the poem. Maybe that is poetic irony. The only part I just did not get was one of the screens that had the word ground written, but then underneath it was ground but the first letter was put at the end. So it looked like this:GroundRoundgOundgrUndgroNdgrouDgroun. This was the only part of the poem that I just didn’t get or maybe it is not that I didn’t get, I think I just didn’t like it. All and all the hypertext was really interesting literally, but no very much visually. I really enjoyed the poem, but I did not like all of the things they did with it in setting up the hypertext. I thought it could have been more involved or more creative. The only aspect that I liked about the visual part was the fact that the apple part of the poem was shaped like an apple. I believed the hypertext lacked while the poem did not. I would like to give the author a benefit of the doubt and say that the poem was simplistic so it matched the hypertext, but only a few parts were simplistic. Most of the poem was complex and could have been elaborated so much more in the hypertext.
My hypertext piece is an interact story. Find the correct link in each section of the story to get to the next part of it. Make sure to remember the links, because in the end they build the last part of the story.
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31722/Hyperext_Project/
March 7, 2007
Brian Stefans
Multimedia Production
Hypertext Fiction Assignment
I didn’t overly enjoy the function of this hypertext fiction. I liked it, but it was very simple. It could have been so much more involved, and technical, but it had a very simple set-up. There wasn’t really any bells or whistles for the project. I chose this project because I liked the text, but as far as the technical aspect is concerned it was far too simple. I liked the hypertext that had the different body parts you could chose a lot. So I suppose I did not really enjoy interacting with it, because there was not much to interact with. Out of all of the hypertext, I liked the one with the body parts. Being able to pick the body part and read how the author hurt himself or herself; I thought that was really cool. This one was definitely not involved enough. This hypertext started with the answers to a question. You either picked yes or no and it brought you to a poem. If you clicked on an aspect of the poem it brought you to a different page. Sometimes the poems would lead you back to the main page with the choice of yes or no. One of the poems was about an apple in relation to the sun. The poem was in the shape of an apple. The interaction of the text with the shape it formed was appealing to the mind and eye. This interaction of the text with the shape it formed neither essential nor detrimental to the project. It made it more interesting. “As I gazed at the golden delicious sun, it turned into an apple. The apple floated and fell furiously into my waiting code-barren mouth.” The name of the website was Answers. The idea behind it was that you were supposed to be giving answers to the poems and they would lead to the consequence of your answer.Some of the pages were just one line like, “Would you still love me if the world was my brain?” The author would make it more complex by placing this one line within a pattern. This caused you to have to search for the line. A lot of the hypertext’s interaction was following patterns with your eyes and having to scroll with them. It was like following a trail of breadcrumbs. This technique really didn’t have anything to do with the text. There was no journey-theme, but it made the reader be more involved with the poem. My favorite part of the poem was, “This won’t hurt a bit. You can pinch every nerve, and your fleshy flimsy lip-gums willingly cry before my eyes… blood curdling scream.”The hypertext wasn’t that involved; all together there was probably six links. I don’t believe that the setup of the project makes it any harder to understand. It is not a fiction piece that follows any semblance of a plot. For me it is hard to determine whether poetry is “good-writing.” Being an artist the best way I can explain it is that there is no structured way to write poetry, much like art. You cannot look at someone’s painting and tell him or her, “No, no, no you did it all wrong.” It is just not how it works. Did anyone tell Picasso that he could not paint people with only one eye? Art and poetry are what you make of it as the author or artist and as a person. It cannot be judged on a scale. Many try to, but they should not. I enjoyed the poetry in the hypertext. It reminded me of something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, like a memory someone tells you about that you can’t remember. When someone says, “You did this, this, and this… you don’t remember?” That is what this painting reminded me of. “Instantly infected and swollen by the foreign fluoresces, the pore bulged and blossomed into a cyber-cider cyst. It turned golden delicious. It was the sun, a golden delicious apple.” This is my favorite quote in the entire hypertext. There wasn’t a lot of information on the Internet about the author, Juliett Martin. I would have liked to learn more about her. There was actually one line that explained that very well. “How come I can’t find love on my hard drive? Maybe I am looking for too much from my computer.” I found it very entertaining that I was trying to find out more information about this author, and I couldn’t and then I read this line in the poem. Maybe that is poetic irony. The only part I just did not get was one of the screens that had the word ground written, but then underneath it was ground but the first letter was put at the end. So it looked like this:GroundRoundgOundgrUndgroNdgrouDgroun. This was the only part of the poem that I just didn’t get or maybe it is not that I didn’t get, I think I just didn’t like it. All and all the hypertext was really interesting literally, but no very much visually. I really enjoyed the poem, but I did not like all of the things they did with it in setting up the hypertext. I thought it could have been more involved or more creative. The only aspect that I liked about the visual part was the fact that the apple part of the poem was shaped like an apple. I believed the hypertext lacked while the poem did not. I would like to give the author a benefit of the doubt and say that the poem was simplistic so it matched the hypertext, but only a few parts were simplistic. Most of the poem was complex and could have been elaborated so much more in the hypertext.
My hypertext piece is an interact story. Find the correct link in each section of the story to get to the next part of it. Make sure to remember the links, because in the end they build the last part of the story.
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31722/Hyperext_Project/
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