"Tiddles"
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Alex Hough
Jun 14, 2015, 9:57:01 AM6/14/15
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Dear All,
I've adapted the <<.tip >> macro to feature the fav icon and used it as bullet points in an experiment. <<.fav "foo bar">> now renders the cat and the text instead of the lightbulb (find attached)
I started out thinking that the icon would represent a "voice" within the text, and that the text would be in a speech bubble: being a non-linear thinker looking for for a name for a new macro I occurred to me that maybe the iconic cat could have a name and a distinctive voice, separate from the tone used in documentation. The literary device is employed in texts like Douglas Hosftader's Godel Esher Bach and Stafford Beer in is "Later in the bar" dialogues.
I was also thinking of different views of the cat, a head shot where it looks cute and rounded, looking at the viewer in a Bigette Bardot kind of way. The blue cirlce aspect of the favicon evokes Blue Note Records kind of aesthetic. I adapted the fav macro.... the <<.tiddles "for bar">> just for fun: I was thinking about the cut and paste aesthetic of the fanzine... The voice needs to be distant from the world of computers and be able to carry and signal a degree of irony...
Anyway, if there was an suitably stylish kittens face looking towards the text, it might do the job better than below and not infringe copyright as above. Its outside my skill set at the moment. Here is a screenshot:
Alex
ps.... is it too dreadful to name the cat "Tiddles"?
Jeremy Ruston
Jun 14, 2015, 5:51:02 PM6/14/15
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Hi Alex
Great stuff, looks very effective. I like the idea of styling for dialogue, both in the discourse sense and the dramatic sense.
"Are You Being Served" is one of my guilty pleasures. The kitten in the original was called Motovun Jack, a stray. Perhaps his surname was Slocombe:
Best wishes
Jeremy
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RichardWilliamSmith
Jun 14, 2015, 8:44:01 PM6/14/15
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More good stuff, thanks Alex - I agree that this could be useful. One of the things I want to do is have a way of displaying the text of a play (ie; https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83055414/macbeth.html) as dialogue that syncs with recordings (video or audio) of the play and this style would work well. I think this could be very useful for am-dram groups, for example, to learn lines and practise scenes.
The thought of little Jack being Mrs. Slocombe's pussy made me laugh... probably a bit hard to explain to people who aren't English and didn't grow up on a staple diet of bawdy innuendo.
As a curiosity (Jeremy), did you know they re-made it for Australia? John Inman's in it and the other roles have been re-cast. Quite bizarre
Regards,
Richard
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