Sunday, October 4, 2009

Two websites I like (really... only two???)

Zoomquilt: collaborative art project

Defined by its creators as a "collaborative art project" Zoomquilt an amazing web site or better a incredible place. You zoom through a series of images by moving your mouse. What you will see is an effect you can create when you place one mirror in front of each other.
What makes this page so amazing to me, is that you can interact with the piece. You can scroll faster or slower, you can stop if you want to look at details, or you can 'lean into the screen' and get immersed in the story the images will tell you.


My body - a wunderkammer




my absolute favourite ..... Shelley Jacksons "My body - a wunderkammer" is a hypertext story about her (?) body. The main page is a large image designes as a image map, each body part is 'klickable' and opens a text page. On the text page, certain words are defines as links and will send you to other text pages. As a hypertext story is supposed to be, there is no defined order to read the text pages, you, the reader creates his own reading adventure. This adventure can be different each time you start to read the story.