Part One: Simplicity
Rice
Rice was a well-organized collection of poems, though sometimes it got difficult to navigate, as in the display became distorted. I don't know if that was intentional on the part of the author, or the program has just become outdated. In any event, I appreciated the fairly methodical approach, and especially the images, which give the "old-fashioned trip" feel to the collection. Even when the words were hard to understand, the images helped send the message.
Storyland
Storyland reminded me of those silly plot generators I used to play with when I was bored of writing. They were useless for just about everything except character names. The plots they generated were always so flat and useless. That's kind of how I felt about Storyland. The generated stories had no depth and sometimes didn't even make sense. I wondered if this was a statement about writing in general, or the idea that there are only X number of stories in the universe that we tell, over and over...
Strings
Something about Strings spoke to me, pulled at me. I'd never really thought about the voice in handwriting, or if I did, I didn't think it was possible to express before this. So much was expressed in just a few handwritten words: personality, tone, frustration. The words were not managed to keep the exact message they would have sent if they'd been spoken aloud, simply by the way they were animated.
Faith
If you listen to faith, do it with the music. Otherwise it just loses something. This reminded me of that magnetic poetry you play with in craft stores. I was very impressed by the sheer amount of effort that the author put into making the exact point he wanted. Using simple colors and sounds, he managed to portray his emotions, but finally managed to come to a peaceful or at least final conclusion. I did have to watch this one twice to make sure I wasn't missing anything because the end came so suddenly.
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Rice was a well-organized collection of poems, though sometimes it got difficult to navigate, as in the display became distorted. I don't know if that was intentional on the part of the author, or the program has just become outdated. In any event, I appreciated the fairly methodical approach, and especially the images, which give the "old-fashioned trip" feel to the collection. Even when the words were hard to understand, the images helped send the message.
Storyland
Storyland reminded me of those silly plot generators I used to play with when I was bored of writing. They were useless for just about everything except character names. The plots they generated were always so flat and useless. That's kind of how I felt about Storyland. The generated stories had no depth and sometimes didn't even make sense. I wondered if this was a statement about writing in general, or the idea that there are only X number of stories in the universe that we tell, over and over...
Strings
Something about Strings spoke to me, pulled at me. I'd never really thought about the voice in handwriting, or if I did, I didn't think it was possible to express before this. So much was expressed in just a few handwritten words: personality, tone, frustration. The words were not managed to keep the exact message they would have sent if they'd been spoken aloud, simply by the way they were animated.
Faith
If you listen to faith, do it with the music. Otherwise it just loses something. This reminded me of that magnetic poetry you play with in craft stores. I was very impressed by the sheer amount of effort that the author put into making the exact point he wanted. Using simple colors and sounds, he managed to portray his emotions, but finally managed to come to a peaceful or at least final conclusion. I did have to watch this one twice to make sure I wasn't missing anything because the end came so suddenly.
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