Born of the daily frustration of having desktops - both computer and ikea - cluttered with notes, lists, reminders, to do's and whatnot, this little interactive piece exaggerates the problem to philosophical proportions with an excerpt from Jean Baudrillard's 'The Perfect Crime'.
Open this weighed down desktop... things to do today.
Thanks to Walter Zorn's dhtml/javascript drag & drop library.
What started as a simple format for practicing dialogue writing (two characters named A and B having conversations), slowly got out of hand when they started meeting other characters (C, D, etc.), to the point where their little world was populated by a whole alphabet.
Questless and bored, these characters aren't going anywhere, they just talk about it endlessly.
A couple of finished scenes @ www.brnrd.net/a&b
Temp / haiku is an interactive haiku inviting the reader to create his/her own poetic moment from a fluid stream of imagery.
Proceed to temp / haiku (opens in popup window).
Haiku are epigrammic 3 line poems. In classic Japanese form, they follow a 5-7-5 syllable scheme. In English, they should be no longer than a single breath.
Haiku are meditations on nature, attempting to render a moment purely and find the drama in its grand simplicity. As Goethe said:
Do not, I beg you, look for anything beyond phenomena. They are themselves their lesson.
For further reading, here are some haiku links, from classic to modern:
This interactive story puts the reader in charge of the evening of a boy and a girl. To make them meet is your mission.
A first and rather primitive attempt at hypertext (this was 1999!), the idea behind ibmg was to incorporate the element of time in text. The story thus proceeds (slowly) by itself, regardless of whether the reader interacts. However, action is rewarded, if executed cautiously...
Launch interactive boy meets girl (opens in popup window).