Something to play with: telescopic text

[dianeduane]

This is fun.

(via Cynical-C Blog) 

 

Tags: telescopic, text, fun, words

Comments

fun, enjoying myself immensely, having the the most fun I've had since last night.....

[still-asking.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to show this to my 'writing blocked' yet locquacious daughter!

I ought to show this to a friend of mine.

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

She and I are habitual drinkers of delicate, scented, Chinese teas, and the process of making them is quite different. Our telescopic text for "I made tea" would be quite, quite different!

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

The lovely thing is that it's not unpleasant to read. When it's short it's just a statement of what happened; when it's long it's a rather meditative description of making tea. It's not purple prose or unnecessarily wordy.

[seity1.livejournal.com]

That is why I will never be a writer. I tend to leave it at "I made tea." and move on. I had the worst time trying to make my writing assignments in school actually fill a page.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

You need to read some short-short fiction and see just how much can be said in a few words. If you use more words than you think you need to get the idea across, you just ramble. There's value in conciseness.

Oh, drat!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to do Javascript. I can't do this myself. Ignorance is misery!

Re: Oh, drat!

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Do you know how to do HTML? This is precisely the kind of thing that it was initially presented as, back in the days of yore. (I'm having a senior moment and cannot remember the name of the book, though I remember it as an unusually playful, outsized book, one of those "double sided" books where you could turn it over and the other side was a second book. The cover was red and white, and in one side it described hypertext, fractals, and other artistic uses, while in the other side it talked about hardware wonders like highly parallel systems and how they could be used to solve difficult problems like air-traffic control.)

Anyway. Digression that should have been hidden aside, this is a javascript interpretation of hypertext, where clicking on any single targeted section can expand it out to more detail (but not less, which is sad.)

[lady-autumnstar.livejournal.com]

What fun!!

[kayshapero]

That's a cute one...

[batyatoon]

Oh that is fun.

Reminds me a little of Scott McCloud's "Here's a story" bit in Understanding Comics, about how storytelling can be both reductive and additive.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Oh, very fun. Thank you.