Edward Picot: Personal Website
Contents
New Media pieces:
The Puzzle Box, a story for children.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, a Flash-animated version of Wallace Stevens' famous poem.
Train Coming, a song and video, with music by Michael Szpakowski and lyrics co-written by Robert Roth and Carletta Joy Walker. A sound-only version can be accessed here.
Frog-o-Mighty, a story in Flash, made up with the help of my daughter Rachel and using some of the ornaments from our living-room window-sill.
Some Fragments of my Mum, a Flash animation which I made to commemorate my Mum's eightieth birthday.
A Short History of Everything, a poem about then and now, in Flash.
An Unimportant Story, a nonlinear story using HTML and JavaScript.
Banana Story, a short Flash animation for children.
The Greyhound Murder, a nonlinear murder-story in Flash.
Don Quixote's dream, a short Flash piece re-using open-source images by diverse hands.
Triptych, a panel of three processed images about sheep.
Sheep, a short Flash interactive piece with pictures by William Holman Hunt and music by Erik Satie.
Chicks, a short Flash animation for children.
The Stream, a nonlinear poem/story with pictures. (Uses JavaScript.)
Linesland, a short Flash animation for children.
The Bonfire, a prose poem with pictures.
Penguin Memories, a very short Flash piece with audio and pictures.
The Recycling Bins (interactive short story, including one song - JavaScript and Flash)
Sweetheart's Expedition (picture story for children - JavaScript)
The Sound of Church Bells (hyperpoem - JavaScript and Flash)
Colours (from Heronsbrook)
Criticism:
Hyperliterature - the Web as a text
Selling the Intangible - literary e-zines and their profitability
Structuring the Intangible - literary e-zines and their layout
Self-publication without tears? - Writers with their own websites
The Unfixed Path - hyperliterature and the experience of reading on the Web
Linear Narrative and the Myth of Certainty
Hyperliterature - the Apotheosis of Self-Publishing?
Hyperliterature as a product? - papertiger #2
Personal Website Questionnaire
Outcasts from Eden - Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry since 1945
Other Writing:
Difficult People (extract from a novel)
A Book About Money & Sex (extract from a novel)
Hearing and Seeing (short story)
Saintliness (short story)
A Divided Life (short story)
Devoured (short story)
The Hyperliterature Exchange (my other website)