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"from the American Book of Answers"

Wander into this yourself...

The poem is derived from phrases from the apocryphal publication: "The American Book of Answers" and was the winner of the WA Film and Video Festival 1997 Award for Interactive Multimedia. Joe wrote the poem while running across America.

The original version of this piece was designed to be played at high-quality full-screen resolution and/or via video projection, and is 130Mb with the full soundtrack. The animations were produced with Fractal Design Painter and the poem authored with Apple's MakeQTVRObject application. What you see presented here is a piece which has been drastically compressed and reduced in size to 4.8Mb for web delivery.

The animations are presented in a QuiuckTime VR Object Movie wrapper. Click on the image, grab and drag with your mouse to explore the 90-odd phrases, which are meant to be thus accessed in a nearly-random, though user-controlled, fashion.

Credits:
Poem written and narrated by Joe Record
Soundtrack by Matthew de la Hunty, with grooves by Ben Chase
Original concept and QTVR authoring by Geoff Jagoe
Animations and images by Barb de la Hunty
Produced by Geoff Jagoe
Copyright of the assembled piece: Mastery Multimedia 1997
Copyright of the individual components retained by the authors.

virtual reality << from the American Book of Answers