Had a conversation with her about my idea too, which is going more in the animation direction. I'm liking the style of an old alphabet poster, but with the words as they would appear garbled in predictive text. I'm thinking of animating the text to appear as they're being written, and constantly changing. If all goes well and i have time it also allows space for any other smaller animations. Karen also suggested music as well so thinking about that i reckon that calming, relaxing sort of music would work well in contrasting against the frustration and disorientation of the text.
firefox appears to be randomly deleting my bookmarks, but i found a couple that are pertinent to my essay. It's about the psychology of cyberspace and although i haven't read it all, its very interesting and i know a few of you are looking at identity and what not online.
Deviance in Online Communities
Psychology of Cyberspace
Have also been getting into Second Life more, purely for research purposes because i still hate it. As my essay is looking at the grotesque i wondered what sort of reaction i'd get with 2 completely different avatars,
one that was aesthetically attractive, more clichéd; the perfect. The second was an avatar that combined the main features of what is considered unattractive: the grotesque. It was interesting to note the different responses each avatar received. The grotesque avatar seemed to generate more chat and get more attention, and perhaps this is where the secret lies, in that its an easy way to get attention with very little effort. It is indeed strange to think that in a virtual world of easy beauty that many users design themselves as 'ugly'
on a side note, programming lesson from mike. yeah... i'm not gonna be doing that.
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I really like your idea for your exam project of an old alphabet poster , focusing on dislexia right?
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