blog 10

I read the Jews daughter as well as carving in possibilities, star wars one letter at a time, red riding hood, and self-portraits as others. All these hypertexts chosen by the ELO as important hypertexts used similar styles as joyce’s an afternoon. You could click or in most cases just move your cursor over a certain area on the screen to access new information. I found this style a little confusing. I would be reading and then accidently go over one of these spots and be taken to a different screen or given access to new text.
The Jews daughter used this technique best by highlighting the words that would change the text. I also liked how this text used the system. When going over the word only part of the text would change on the page leaving parts of the old text and doing what hypertext does best, creating new meaning with the same text.
Some of the other texts on the ELO site I felt were more like videos than actual hypertexts. Red Riding Hood was one of these. The hypertext was a flash video that allowed you to click on certain parts of the screen, usually only one spot would advance you in the video. Riding Hood also incorporated a choose your own adventure style. At one screen you could allow riding hood to sleep or wake up. This was pretty much the only choice you came across for the entire video though
My favorite hypertext form the ELO page was Carving in Possibilities. This hypertext presented you with a rough rock image of micalangelos David. When you moved your cursor around the screen you unlocked text as well as slowly carving out the face of David from the rock. The hypertext used many different font styles, sizes and type colors to create different segments within the text. I thought that was interesting as well as using text, which offered more insight into the psychology of the carving, and its subject, which was then used to unlock portions of David’s face.
Star wars one letter at a time was just a video the star wars screenplay flashing by one letter at a time. The title explains it all not much mystery there.
I think that a lot of the hypertext I have read thus far were able to interest me and show me new ways to think about literature and these new ones were no exception. They used a variety of styles some of them not even using text but rather sticking primarily to video. I don’t know if I would classify those as hypertexts but the were interesting non-the less. The use of flash in the hypertexts was a new trick that I think worked very well with the hypertext style. More randomized changes in text. The user does not always know where moving the mouse will take him next.