X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,921551d39e861b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-09 21:33:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-out.svc.us.xo.net!nntp1-feeder.SJ.svc.us.xo.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!nntp-master.svc.us.xo.net From: mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 325 Date: 10 Jan 2003 05:33:50 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3e1e5b25.11245087@nntp.concentric.net> References: <1r65szm6qr.fsf@vingodur.ifi.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.220.177.92 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21423 On 09 Jan 2003 02:50:20 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >[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. > >n o one mentioned the esthetics of your commentary. it probably took more >e ffort to write that than to draw the strip itself, but the text flows so >r emarkably naturally that most people wouldn't stop to think about it. I >d id that myself, I did not notice the brick shape until Faux Pseudo put a >b ig frame around your text qua piece of art. it was his usual frame, the >o ne I imagine is a weak attempt to make Usenet look more like television. >y eah, 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 heheh