Electronic Literature Collection Volume I

Translation by John Cayley

Dissonant music
text bits translating into different languages - then to photos before your eyes
Sprockets from SNL
Kind of BS
Take home: each language is a translation of all other languages
There is also translation between media

Birds Singing other Birds' Songs by Maria Mencia
Blue sky with clouds
Numbers 1-13 along the bottom, each with a play button and a stop button
Annoying bc you cannot read the words that some of the bird shapes are made of. Just when they almost come into view, they explode into letters or fly off screen
It's best when all the birds are turned on together. They don't seem to interrupt each other.

Star Wars, One letter at a time by Kim Stefans
A blank white screen. The noise of a typewriter typing and the bell ding at the end of each line. The script, I guess, of the original Star Wars being typed and displayed one letter at a time in some standard typewriter font. At first, I thought it was cool at first and was pretty amazed that I could actually read what was being typed, but it got on my nerves pretty quickly and I turned it off. I saw a warning on one of the pieces of electronic literature that said it could induce epileptic seizures and thought this one should have that warning, as well. I immediately thought of the readies machine.

Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit] by William Poundstone
I don't know what it was, but I don't like it! When you start, there are words in a nondescript typeface flashing almost too quickly to read until your eyes adjust and you are able to start comprehending a story of a bottomless pit that opened up near a worksite and swallowed lots of workers and equipment. The words are flashing on top of some line drawings of different symbols and household objects. At first, you can barely detect some color pictures or photos being stuck in so quickly that they are not consciously perceived. Then, as my eyes adjusted, I saw a face slipped in there and it scared the crap out of me, so I turned it off.

Lexia to Perplexia by Talan Memmott
First thing i notice is a broken link on the intro page and cheesy graphic design (i think intentionally so).