the critics all agree: way better than the hollywood adaptation.

remember awp, way back when?  i do, because i’ve still got a shitload of lit mags sitting in my apartment that i hauled home from denver, but which, as of yet, i have to read.  and i’ve begged off posting about salt hill because i wanted to do a proper review of this excellent little journal.  it’ll happen someday, but in the meantime i can’t wait any longer to share with you the glory of stefanie posavec’s work, which i discovered in salt hill 22.  if you liked dan’s post with stuff from information is beautiful, this’ll be right up your alley, because this lady’s an evil genius.  she’s taken works of literature and literally mapped them, in various ways, based on sentences, paragraph breaks, chapters, etc.  you can learn about her process for creating sentence drawings, plus get some other brilliant work & links of hers over at eye blog.

and but there’s more!  with a totally unrelated (except for in a conceptual way) link, i also wanted to share with you the mind-boggling awesomeness that is the cyoa project.  in which samizdat took a dozen “choose your own adventure” books and mapped out every conceivable path.  and then animated them in flash.  it’s nothing short of stunning.

similar idea, different medium—each doing something better than the other could.  here’s to always having the best of both worlds.