Re: My Artifacts Page

Dear Trent,

(I'm writing you personally, and also posting to the list):

I find this AMAZING. The idea of creating an "artifacts" page for your
conculture is a truly imaginative undertaking, and I had long wanted to do
something similar with Teonaht, but never had the time or the technical
expertise. The fact that you computer-generated some of your images impresses
me. But I have to ask you... did you create the masks yourself? They look like
photographs of physically made things.

I was especially impressed by "He Chased a Pebble." But I'd like to know what
exactly you mean by the Idrani Kalevala. I'm familiar with some of the
Kalevala... what does it mean in Finnish? And are these stories your invention
(Kalevala meaning "collection of tales"?) or adaptations of the actual
Kalevala? LOVE the soundbytes!

How can I make a "book" that turns like that? I have several stories that I wanted
to turn into on-line hypertexts.

The artifacts that you say were computer generated do look quite real, especially
the metal plates. Particularly beautiful was "The Edict of Sojawi" and its
delicate, embossed script. The Disipokhu Leaves look like something you
painted, and scanned in. Was it?

I have DSL, and still the pages took a long time to load. Nothing after Alphabet
Book Leaf 2 loaded, which is about two thirds of the way down. :( Is that a
problem of my computer just not being able to handle the size of the file? I
watched the lower bar as it loaded, and it brought it all the way down from 50
percent to go to DONE, and yet the final third of the file won't display the
images.

I bookmarked it, though, so we'll see if the whole thing loads next time.  

Wonderful work, Trent! And 24 years of it, I understand (I read your bio... when I tried
to access Roddenberry's "dynamic language" Eunoic, I was told that I was "not
authorised to view it." Do I have to play in Roddenberry's sandbox to look at
it? I already did that. ;-) He's [was] so stingy with his toys. :)

Sally
Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an
"The gods have retractible claws"
                Gospel of Bast
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