On 7 August 2011 20:17, Jim Andrews
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i haven't read it but just read about it on wikipedia. ha. i have to read up to get your jokes sometimes, david. yes being from aleph null is being from very far away indeed, given that aleph null is the first and most homely order of infinity.
speaking of sci-fi, i watched herzog's 'the wild blue yonder'. now there is an inventive, imaginative, and _different_ approach to sci-fi. he uses many of the conventions of sci-fi but usually in a new way. i will actually watch that one again.
having moved recently to vancouver, i got a different cable company, a local one, and their price for internet and tv is quite good. but, it turns out, the stations you get are, for the most part, not very entertaining. you can buy the more entertaining stations, of course, for an additional charge. so i have taken to using a file-sharing program to download things i want to watch. recently i searched online for lists of 'the top' sci-fi films and downloaded many of the films. as you might expect, 'the wild blue yonder' was not prominent or even on many of those lists. but, having seen it, and having become familiar with several of those lists, it really should be.
and, watching 'the wild blue yonder', i had a feeling of, yes, watching the work of a poet. by that i mean, well, i'm not exactly sure what i mean, but the film is highly imagistic and aware of the medium and genre its operating in. it isn't afraid to shut up and work in images. it isn't overly novelistic. the dialogue is mostly a monologue, perhaps entirely monologue (i will have to watch it again--it was late and i fell asleep for part of it). as though it was closer to being a poem than a conventional story. very fine work indeed.
by the way, i have added an 'about' button to aleph null at http://vispo.com/aleph . that button opens a window of text that may not be finished, but includes sections titled Credits, About, Help, The Title, Tones as Colors and
Sounds, Slidvid of Aleph Null Stills, and Performance Issues. there is also now a color-picker for the background color. so the piece is about 90% finished. the only other additional thing i want to work on is to add more stuff to the 'shapes' slider. the html 5 canvas tag offers ways to draw curves. i would like to have aleph null be able to show very curvy things. like the polygons only very curvy.
ja
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: Slidvid of Aleph Null stills
It just struck me that 'Slidvid of Aleph Null' would make a great name for a
character in sf-fantasy novel ...
or perhaps a refugee from 'The Cyberiad' ?