The story, "Where There is No Story at All" by Jackie was adept use of imagery which made just enough sense and brought that edge I had hoped to find. She chose interesting flash productions which were stimulating with out distracting from the inevitable narrative. I had hoped to find some of these kind of visually appealing interactions but lost a couple URLs I wanted to use. I enjoyed the clock where th hand keeps erasing and rewriting the minutes as they pass in constant cycle. Yes, and the 5 minute sideburns were very funny and to me it was like at this moment when the author was abandoning you in suspense she was laughing at you HA HA! No ending for you!
Some like Lindsey’s The Drawn Pavement of October Nights were somewhat straight forward illustrations of the word used. There was an image of Army recruitment for the word Army and a camaro for camaro. It was imagery toward the visualization of the narrative. However the first, ketchup was linked to a site which had a funny political message. The bottle has a picture of Geoge Wahington and is called "W" that seems to represent george (duba-u as people call him) Bush and it was for fallen soldiers. It seemed to be in line with some of the words she chose to link, such as army. It was an interesting direction as she was writing about discrete assignments for some organization.
Once it was discussed, I begain thinking about why we did not choose many texts (aside the ones required to link to). I suppose my particular reasoning is that it would be drawing away from the original text but I guess it is more Calvino’esque to do so. I think Lindsey’s Linked at the end to another which I had not considered during the assignment as Calvino always does so. I tink it would be interesting to encorporate mor sounds with the linkage. I would have linked "The wind cried mary" by Jimi Hendrix to Jason’s. However, I like the visual as well so I suppose the only way to integrate the two would be through creating the pages yourself as opposed to outside links that are out of our control. Anyway I enjoyed this project but especially exploring the other creations and various takes on the assignment.