Nier's was personal and auto biographical.
map-like composition for viewers to follow.
colors used for background blended in perfectly with the content.
all sorts of visual media were included on the website.

Max's was very thematic and focused. the background and the images were interrelated based on the theme of architecture and colors.
the neat and geometrical composition of the images follow the same theme.
questions embedded not so explicitly in between the informative videos and definitions change the direction of intentions from a simple informative webpage to a platform which seeks full interaction with the viewer; concerns are expressed.

Qingyang's was simple and focused on one topic. because of the white simple background the pictures of the drawings stood out. because of lack of movement the start page allows the viewers to take their time looking at the paintings. as the content were not alarming and their designs were somehow interrelated, the experince was somehow calming.
the video embedded was so different from everything else tho :))

Mine was chaotic and nostalgic apparently:))

for sale: baby shoes, never worn

it is curious, therefore, that as the designers of Cyberspace have began to explore ways for inhabiting this new "space", they chose as precedent the woefully inadequate document metaphor, instead of the place metaphor:
instead of "web-places" we find "web-pages". we find "web-sites" instead of "web-places".

The conventional conception of hypertext suggests that browsers use links to navigatea trail through cyberspace from one document to another. This conception createsgreat confusion about the spatial nature of the web, which is never experienced as acohesive space. If the 'link' metaphor must be retained, it is better to think of it as something that is pulled in, drawing a new document onto the screen. The browser never moves - thedocument comes to them. A better conception still is that clicking on a link invokes a new document byaddressing it (speaking to it, not visiting it). Extending Austin's theory of speech acts,clicking on a link might be called an invocationary act. This event has both semanticsignificance in language, and technical significance to the computer system. Moreimportantly, an invocationary act has some force in social relations. The distributionof invocations has political and economic significance.

articulating language = articulating reality
language contains reality
language opens the space of reality
LANGUAGE CREATES REALITY

connectedness and relationships between objects is magic
hyperlinks connect things = bah magic
the awareness of holistic connectivity = talismans

we often move from one place to another and from one space to another without thinking or measuring or taking account of those space 'lapses'. the problem is not to invent space, even less to re-event it (...), but to 'question' it, or simply 'read' it.
Georges Perec Espace D'espace

Oulipo
An acronym for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Literature), a group of writers and mathematicians formed in France in 1960 by poet Raymond Queneau and mathematician François Le Lionnais. Unlike the Dada and surrealist movements, OuLiPo rejects spontaneous chance and the subconscious as sources of literary creativity. Instead, the group emphasizes systematic, self-restricting means of making texts. For example, the technique known as n + 7 replaces every noun in an existing text with the noun that follows seven entries after it in the dictionary.

NONLINEAR BOOK
SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY READ IN A LINEAR APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND

importance of shapes and geometry in creating magic

Tuesday,
November 15