I found Juliet Davis’s Pieces of Herself through the Electronic Literature Collection (volume 3) I selected it because it reminded me of Shelly Jackson’s My Body a Wunderkammer (MBW). Pieces of herself was made in 2003-2005, so I think it is certainly possible it was inspired by the work of Shelly Jackson. Both have similarities in that they are…
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Queerskins- lets get graphic
http://www.queerskins.com/#title Lets get graphic. About the emotional roller coaster a family faces when dealing with AIDS. Queer skins is an interactive novel written by Illya Szilak. It features a couple hours of audio files to listen to, and over 40,000 words in the form of journal entries. As you click you learn the story of a young homosexual doctor…
Lemons, Sugar, and Water
Ingrid Ankerson along with Megan Sapnar Ankerson co-founded the digital arts and poetry journal Poems that Go. “Today is Lemonade” by Ingrid Ankerson is a piece of digital poetry from 2000. This digital poem is a silent video that has simple animation that goes along with the lines of the poem. “Today is Lemonade” overall could be seen as a…
Funny How Language Is An Art?!
Everything has reasoning behind it. So, to say the order of words, or the correct spelling, or grammar of them isn’t important, you’d be lying to yourself. It has reasoning… We spell words a certain way for a reason, just like any other language. I found a great example on http://iloveepoetry.com/ that shows us that there is…
Me!Me!Me!: A Close Look at the Cost of Otaku Culture
Starting this blog post off, for those of you who aren’t familiar with Me!Me!Me!, it’s not an easy video to watch. I am on my twentieth viewing of this video and it still makes me feel semi-uncomfortable when watching it. So fair warning, this music video is probably one of the weirdest things you’ll watch. There are a few images…
Even Rap Gods use E-Lit
Ever since the beginning of YouTube in 2005, the site is just about the biggest source for lyric videos that I’ve ever seen. People of all kinds were giving their favorite songs a little flair using an array of “movie maker” tricks so they could watch the lyrics come a live before their eyes. It was not until yesterday though that…
The YouTube Collection
The first thing that I did on April Fool’s Day was to check all of my favorite websites for special features. YouTube was my first checkpoint and I was not disappointed. If you haven’t seen “The YouTube Collection” you should definitely check it out. It’s so well done and my blog won’t make much sense if you haven’t seen it.…
Movement and “Rooms” in Scratch
Like with my previous post, I thought it would be helpful to answer a common question I get from students by way of a tutorial. In this case, the question is how to have a character appear to move from one room to another. In the video below (since Scratch is all drag and drop, I thought it would be…
Bunny Thespians: A Reply
This is kind of an opinion piece, so I hope it counts for the checkpoint. I’d like to reply to Chelsea’s blogpost in which she questions whether or not the 30 second bunny theatre can count as electronic literature. I think discounting videos such as the 30 Second Bunny ones based on their derivative content isn’t quite valid. Considering…
I thought everyone would enjoy this…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al0RzkDqgM[/youtube]This clip is so funny, especially now that I have my own frustrating experiences with text adventures. I thought everybody would like this. I’m pretty sure he’s playing Colossal Cave Adventure or Zork, which is pretty awesome. And if you don’t already watch the Big Bang Theory – start now!