X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,921551d39e861b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-09 06:29:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.75.92.6!not-for-mail From: "Joaquim G�ndara" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 325 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:30:16 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <1r65szm6qr.fsf@vingodur.ifi.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.75.92.6 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042122561 16809116 212.75.92.6 (16 [102694]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21417 "Kjetil Torgrim Homme" skrev i meddelandet news:1r65szm6qr.fsf@vingodur.ifi.uio.no > [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! Yay! Someone finally noticed! Thanks, Kjetil. :) It didn't take more effort than the actual strip; it was more or less as hard. obascii: this paragraph is a small box of text trying to pass as art -- OO Joaquim G�ndara .||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net bb jg