did I really get here first?
do you think walter ong would approve of writing without capital letters?
i wanted to shamelessly exploit our brief discussion about blake to say that i did a project on blake in a seminar last semester and it's going to get published in romantic circles and i've spent the last two days revising it and i wanted to invite you all to see it.
my argument is that blake's songs of innocence and of experience (the images of which we looked at last night on the wall) is a "game in virtual space" and i also created a hypermedia "machine" that enables the reader to compare plates from the two books.
so as an example of new media, i offer you...
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/designsonblake.ns/byrne/contraries.html
or go directly to the hypermedia machine...
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/designsonblake.ns/byrne/contraries_machine/game_frame.html
i want you to know i spent twenty minutes writing this post and proofread it three times.
Joseph Byrne
Posted by Joseph at February 5, 2004 09:51 PMVery nice, Joseph. Thanks for posting it.
The interface makes me wonder about a Blake slot machine . . .
Posted by: MGK at February 5, 2004 11:47 PMI actually thought of that in the early brainstorming stage. "Piper...Piper...PIPER! You're a winner!" Though I couldn't figure out a way to make coins cascade out of the monitor screen...
JosephB
Posted by: Joseph B at February 6, 2004 12:19 PMIf this is shameless exploitation, I'm all for it! Many thanks - I found it to be really amazing and extremely beautiful. I also found it quite a strenuous exercise to think about how you originally went about conceptualizing it. It brings me into engagement with Blake in many new and delightful ways.
Posted by: Kimberlee at February 10, 2004 10:31 AM