tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post8366951725247320363..comments2024-03-26T19:19:35.144+00:00Comments on Eolake Stobblehouse thoughts: iPad and graphic-rich books (updated twice)Eolake Stobblehousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-90332681890930691542010-02-02T15:29:41.721+00:002010-02-02T15:29:41.721+00:00On the other hand, Scott McCloud makes the point i...<i>On the other hand, Scott McCloud makes the point in his excellent book (maybe the second one) that a comic which starts to use any animation at all, is no longer technically a comic. And worse, it will be in a competitive space with real animated videos, which may not make it look good!</i> <br /><br /> That is true. Besides, I don't find word balloons and text boxes distracting. What I dislike about modern comic books compared to those of even 20 years ago is that they are so heavy on computer coloring and computer text. I actually kind of long for the comparatively crude four-color work of the Golden Age.dave nielsennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-33305891230413860512010-01-31T00:48:03.108+00:002010-01-31T00:48:03.108+00:00That's very true. The multi-media art format s...That's very true. The multi-media art format seemed so very promising, on CD-ROMs in the early nineties, before the web arrived to very unexpected kill them! <br /><br />On the other hand, Scott McCloud makes the point in his excellent book (maybe the second one) that a comic which starts to use any animation at all, is no longer technically a comic. And worse, it will be in a competitive space with real animated videos, which may not make it look good!Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-77923784241534076642010-01-31T00:45:11.094+00:002010-01-31T00:45:11.094+00:00Dave Pague? I could´ve sworn it was Troy McClure. ...Dave Pague? I could´ve sworn it was Troy McClure. (Also seen in the classic <i>Stop, or my die-hard Mom will Indy your nachos!</i>.)Pascal [P-04referent]https://www.blogger.com/profile/12828897559998855623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-47993414955472737022010-01-31T00:41:25.914+00:002010-01-31T00:41:25.914+00:00You know, I think the immense potential for intera...You know, I think the immense potential for interactive/animated/with sound/rich books is still direly undertapped today. I mean, for one, how many webcomics do bother with some simple .GIF animations, such as, say, (at random) MY AVATAR RIGHT HERE with blinking eyes?<br /><br />I´ve made myself my own homepage, with all my regular links, after becoming self-taught in HTML. I don´t know the first think of making Adobe Flash files, but I´ve learned many tricks. For one, and just for the %$#@ sake of it, I´ve got images of Garfield, J.J.Doonesbury, Archie Andrews, Mrs Americana and the Yahoo! logo´s smiley all looking alive there, each blinking at their own frequency. (Fastest for Mrs Americana because she´s getting chloroformed by the evil Mr. X, so she´s half-fainting. :-)<br />If Blogger didn´t convert my GIFs into static PNG format, I´d be posting many more on my blog.<br />Starting with a prototype of terrorist-proof skyscrapeers. No fib!<br /><br />But anyway, I think there´s immense room for interactive books, somewhere between static printed text/comics, TV cartoons, and the highly complex stories of adventure/RPG videogames.<br />For instance, a special CD-Rom edition of Harry Potter, with old paper texture background for the pages, a font like quill writing, animated images in color, and sometimes an embedded small video or music/voice from the movies.<br /><br />So many possibilities, so little imaginative talents! Many promises of the "multimedia format" are still buried in the form of raw ore.Pascal [P-04referent]https://www.blogger.com/profile/12828897559998855623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-8023865633360693152010-01-31T00:27:29.263+00:002010-01-31T00:27:29.263+00:00No, you're confusing it with the action movie ...No, you're confusing it with the action movie of that title, with action star Dave Pague.Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-10677050142932933852010-01-31T00:23:42.540+00:002010-01-31T00:23:42.540+00:00Right you are, Monsieur! Forget the Pogues, the Co...Right you are, Monsieur! Forget the Pogues, the Cors and the Ruttles, what about praising the four Beatle brothers? John, Paul, Ringo and Averell Beatle. But everybody keeps forgetting Averell´s name. He´s like music´s 4th Musketeer. :-(<br />[I for one didn´t forget you, Chico Marx! ...Or was his name Carl?]<br /><br /><i>What about his groundbreaking flute work in "This Man's Heart Is Forever Pulverized".</i><br />I thought it was "This Man's SPLEEN Is Forever Pulverized", adapted from a Baudelaire masterpiece poem?Pascal [P-04referent]https://www.blogger.com/profile/12828897559998855623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-17067420911663672572010-01-30T11:18:52.536+00:002010-01-30T11:18:52.536+00:00Haha, so when you were born the Beatles were singi...Haha, so when you were born the Beatles were singing "Love Love Love" in the background? Haha (;-)<br />it certainly paid.<br />At the time I could already understand the lyrics, hehe. Granny that I am, today. ( no Granchildren to look after though, haha).Monsieur Beep!https://www.blogger.com/profile/15461660288875874178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-45225499815881103212010-01-30T09:05:45.286+00:002010-01-30T09:05:45.286+00:00Definitely.
Although to be honest, less than ten ...Definitely. <br />Although to be honest, less than ten percent of such plans of mine tend to pan out. So we'll see. <br /><br />My latest idea is to do a "powerpoint" type slideshow instead, so each page is a drawing, and the "text" is spoken word which I record. This will leave the art free of text, because I find that text almost always drag the art down, aesthetically. <br />For example the most beautiful pages I have found in comic books over the years have been pages entirely without any text on them. But it's hard to tell a story that way, so I figure spoken word would be a solution. (Each page could be a full drawing, or it could be several like a comic book page.)<br /><br />If one is good enough (I don't know if I am), one can also put a lot more tone and emotion and so on into spoken word than in text. <br /><br />And of course a huge number of people in the world just are not comfortable reading, either for psychological or eye-sight reasons.Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-81634916113889883252010-01-30T08:32:56.519+00:002010-01-30T08:32:56.519+00:00So, Eo, are you planning to publish some ... er .....So, Eo, are you planning to publish some ... er ... “graphic-rich” books for the iPad?Timo Lehtinenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689481666881650781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-37632006635935002712010-01-29T16:47:36.550+00:002010-01-29T16:47:36.550+00:00Dave Nielsen, sure, go back to your American West ...Dave Nielsen, sure, go back to your American West Coast grunge rock, see if real music will miss you at all...Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-60588197570709857862010-01-29T16:46:34.208+00:002010-01-29T16:46:34.208+00:00Heretic! His best work is his solo work! What abou...Heretic! His best work is his solo work! What about the grammy he won for On And Off And On The Wall Again And Again? What about his groundbreaking flute work in "This Man's Heart Is Forever Pulverized". If you ignore that, you're just putting on blinders purposefully.Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-87162848105326238362010-01-29T16:39:39.907+00:002010-01-29T16:39:39.907+00:00Folks, don't believe any of the nonsense Eo is...Folks, don't believe any of the nonsense Eo is spouting.<br /><br />David is well known because he is part of the Irish musical family, The Pogues. That's all.Timo Lehtinenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689481666881650781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-36313669588804833892010-01-29T16:08:00.165+00:002010-01-29T16:08:00.165+00:00Eolake has mentioned Pogue a lot but to be honest ...Eolake has mentioned Pogue a lot but to be honest I have never had any desire to find out who he is. :-)dave nielsennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-68056646842244465962010-01-29T16:07:59.701+00:002010-01-29T16:07:59.701+00:00Yes, of course I was referring to the great Irish ...Yes, of course I was referring to the great Irish singer David Pogue, cousin and arch-rival of Bonno (I am never sure of the spelling, sorry). Although as serious fans will be aware, he is technically Scottish, but his parents moved to Ireland when he was less than a year old, so obviously he was left no choice but to come with them. <br /><br />Word is that David has been trying for the last couple of years to find a hot female pop singer to make a hit duet with, but he keeps being frustrated by the fact that just as they start the agent message-tag game, the singer will suddenly be involved in some drug-related scandal or such, and he'll have to pull out, not to shame his deeply catholic parents. <br /><br />Another frustration in his life is that when he's in NYC, he keeps getting stopped on the street by people who mistake him for another David Pogue, who apparently write about computers or something for the NY Times. He can only make them go away by pointing out that unlike the other David Pogue, his ears are anatomically correct and he can use in-ear earbuds without problems.Eolake Stobblehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-18082636133738201982010-01-29T15:23:06.798+00:002010-01-29T15:23:06.798+00:00This is a bummer.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/...This is a bummer.<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/ipad-books-are-us-only/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-28631865130179939512010-01-29T12:20:53.675+00:002010-01-29T12:20:53.675+00:00Drats, I should've previewed my comment. There...Drats, I should've previewed my comment. There's a redundant "lolcats" entry in my list. Let's pretend it was on purpose to emphasize their importance for my mental wellbeing. ;-)Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-20476916245494746002010-01-29T12:18:57.325+00:002010-01-29T12:18:57.325+00:00I've got a folder called "Humour" wi...I've got a folder called "Humour" with comic rss-feeds in Google Reader and it's the second one I read every day. (the first one's called "Alerts")<br /><br />A good way to keep up with Cat and girl, Dilbert, The Duplex, Real life adventures, Loose ends, Pearls before swine, Murray the nut, Sinfest, xkcd, We the robots, Savage chickens, Questionable content, lolcats, etc. ... and of course the I Can Has Cheezburger lolcat newsfeed.Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-44474445747193772982010-01-29T10:14:52.584+00:002010-01-29T10:14:52.584+00:00PS: Who is David Pogue? If you are going to drop n...<i>PS: Who is David Pogue? If you are going to drop names, please make them people I actually know.</i><br /><br />He's some Irish singer. No need to make such a big fuzz about it.Timo Lehtinenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689481666881650781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16327517.post-63906732181222816492010-01-29T02:08:33.970+00:002010-01-29T02:08:33.970+00:00I just wrote to Steve Jobs:
"We talked about...I just wrote to Steve Jobs:<br /><br />"We talked about this years ago in that meeting with with Bill, when he kept yakking on about media convergence. What took so long, buddy?"<br /><br />I expect to hear back real soon.<br /><br />PS: Who is David Pogue? If you are going to drop names, please make them people I actually know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com