"There are lots of faces like this in old churches – faces made out of leaves. Some of them are in wood and some in stone. They're always called Green Men.”

“Why does this one look so horrible?”

“I believe they're supposed to represent the plight of an immortal soul when it's forced to live in a mortal body..."

Dora starts to find out about the first clue. She converses with a vicar. One of the cards is stolen. The black beetle reappears.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/

- Edward Picot

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2008: a review of 'The Way North' Joel Weishaus.

"The page as a whole... is giving off all sorts of different signals about its content, and the experience of reading it is dominated by moments of transition, from one voice to another, one type of discourse to another, and one text-style to another. The overall impression is that this is not the kind of smooth, homogenous discourse we are used to reading in print, but the text equivalent of a collage."

To read the whole review, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewthewaynorth.php .

"She opened the lid. The inside of the box was divided into two halves, and each half contained cards. On the left hand side were red cards with yellow lettering on them, which said 'Help'; and on the right hand side were blue cards with red lettering on them, which said 'Clue'..."

Just what has happened to Dora's dad, exactly what is the present he left for her, and who is that strange boy who keeps appearing and disappearing so mysteriously? The second of 12 chapters.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/

"Bluedolph the blue-nosed reindeer
Didn't have a shiny nose..."

A mildly anti-festive animated parable about one of the less successful reindeers. In Flash, with sound (and sprigs of holly). Happy Christmas!

http://www.edwardpicot.com/bluedolph/

Since I completed my Flash reworking of the Wallace Stevens poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" ( http://edwardpicot.com/thirteenways/ ), it's been featured in a couple of other publications. There's an article about it by Marc Garrett on the Furtherfield website - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=285 - which is one of the most important websites devoted to new media art in the UK; and Katie Haegele has featured it in the "Digitalit" column which she writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer ( http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/8794227.html ).

"It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow."

I have now finished recreating all thirteen sections of Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as short Flash animations; and I've also built a crab-apple-tree interface for the whole thing.

For readers who have been following this project since February, when it started, the new sections are numbers 3 ("Autumn winds"), 5 ("Inflections and innuendos"), 8 ("Noble accents") and 13 ("It was evening all afternoon").

"A man and a woman
Are one.
A man a woman and a blackbird
Are one."

From a work in progress: three more short animations, based on sections of Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", are now online. The first three were completed in February, the second batch in April, and there should be more to come a bit later in the year.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/

Also available, if you visit my home page, is a one-off song/video entitled "Train Coming".

- Edward Picot

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2007: a review of 'Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part Two', edited by Helena Bulaja; written by Ivana Brlie Mazuranic; and animated by Edgar Beals, Mirek Nisenbaum, Laurence Arcadia and Helena Bulaja.

"Every animation on this CD is worth seeing for its own sake; but when they are viewed in conjunction with the original Tales, and the background information about Mazuranic herself, then a much more rich and complex picture emerges..."

"I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds."

From a work in progress: three more short animations, based on sections of Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", are now online. The first three were completed in February, and there should be more to come a bit later in the year.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/

- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2007: a review of 'The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One', edited by N Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

"The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC1 for short) contains some extremely powerful, beautiful, clever, amusing and moving pieces of work, but it isn't entirely without flaws..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewelc1.php .