X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,921551d39e861b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-08 17:50:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 325 Date: 09 Jan 2003 02:50:20 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1r65szm6qr.fsf@vingodur.ifi.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vingodur.ifi.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1042077021 4335 129.240.68.200 (9 Jan 2003 01:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jan 2003 01:50:21 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21415 [Joaquim G�ndara]: > > Trying out a new technique! Namely, adding more details to convey the > passing of time. It makes sense in two ways. If you go from no detail > to suddenly having a whole background, like here, then supposedly the > eye wanders and the reader will spend more time on that frame. Second > reason to use this is that even if the reader won't look at the added > stuff, it represents the fact that during a silent moment, people may > begin looking around at the surroundings instead of each other. Maybe > the reader gets that, albeit subconsciously. Basically, I'm rambling. no one mentioned the esthetics of your commentary. it probably took more effort to write that than to draw the strip itself, but the text flows so remarkably naturally that most people wouldn't stop to think about it. I did that myself, I did not notice the brick shape until Faux Pseudo put a big frame around your text qua piece of art. it was his usual frame, the one I imagine is a weak attempt to make Usenet look more like television. yeah, it drew more attention to the shape than the content, that figures! -- Kjetil T. | read and make up your own mind | http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html