Where Books Come to Life

This is beautiful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jyXJTlrH0

It's an animation by Maurice Gee, put out by the New Zealand Book Council. It's a book that physically morphs itself into the illustrations of a novel.
Just gorgeous, and very cool.

It actually reminds me of my ENG921 course, Narrative in a Digital age. Actually, I sent it to my prof. Yeah, I'm a big keener.

A Moment on Earth

This semester I took ENG 921: Narrative in a Digital Age.
Never have the readings for an English course been so cool! All the "readings" have been digital media, digi art and digital archives of one form or another.

This week we had to look at, among other things, a digital text called "A Moment on Earth." It's the website for two movies that were made a few years ago.

-- 60 filmmakers around the world shot their film at the exact same moment in time around the world, and then did it again 12 hours later
-- On August 5, 2004, at 12 p.m. GMT and again at 12 a.m. GMT, simultaneous moments were caught all around the globe.

It's the perfect demonstration of global synchronicity, and it beautifully shows how we're all connected. Global village and all that jazz.

(Click the cool link-y picture below to check it out.)

We also had to be writing a blog for this course about the readings and our reactions etc. I may post bits and pieces of it here if I have the time.