Comments on: Freedom within Boundaries – Presentation

By: Madinkbeard » Mini-Morph Presentation in Second Life

Madinkbeard » Mini-Morph Presentation in Second Life — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:56:57 +0000

[...] going to be presenting in Second Life again (see my presentation from October). Here’s the official announcement, though my presentation topic has been changed: [...]

By: DerikB

DerikB — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:19:24 +0000

Look it up! I was too lazy for that. I’ll get Mike’s name right next time.

By: Isaac Cates

Isaac Cates — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:21:49 +0000

I figured you could look “nepenthe” up in the dictionary. (It’s in “The Raven,” too, which your talk referred to — and that’s probably why I thought of it.)

Anyway, Mike’s last name is pronounced WENNTH-ee. It would rhyme with tenthie if that were a word, and it sort of rhymes with lengthy, depending on your accent.

By: DerikB

DerikB — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:18:42 +0000

Apologies to Mike. I’m notoriously bad with pronunciations because most of my learning is book learning. I don’t even know how to pronounce “nepenthe” so that doesn’t help. “Wen-tha”?

As for your other comments, I’ll have to work that up later (both a reply about the sonnets and the links).

By: Isaac Cates

Isaac Cates — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:43:38 +0000

(Also, Mike’s probably too modest to point this out, but you mispronounced his surname in your presentation: it’s two syllables long, and it rhymes with nepenthe.)

By: Isaac Cates

Isaac Cates — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:41:36 +0000

Hey, Derik —

Thanks for the mention of the latest Satisfactory. That’s an interesting paper.

It’d be interesting to hear you talk a little more about the ways in which the form of, for example, a sonnet counts as “constraint,” when other formal considerations (Schulz’s four-panel layout in Peanuts or the generic assumptions of, say, detective fiction) don’t count. In some ways, the formal constraints of a sonnet are dictated by genre, so that they hardly seem optional for Shakespeare; on the other hand, if someone chose to draw a webcomic with the same constraints of panelization that Schulz used (four square panels only), wouldn’t that be a formal constraint?

It’d also be great if you could make a clickable list of the links that appear in the slideshow, since they aren’t clickable there…

By: DerikB

DerikB — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:25:09 +0000

Hey Mike! Glad you enjoyed it. If you want to hear more about Nogegon I reviewed it here:
http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/nogegon-by-schuiten-and-schuiten

You might also check out some of my other comics and constraint posts all over this blog.

By: Mike Wenthe

Mike Wenthe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:30:59 +0000

I enjoyed this, Derik! While it was a pleasant surprise to see Satisfactory Comics #8 crop up in the discussion (I didn’t know it would feature in the presentation!), I especially enjoyed seeing unfamiliar (to me) work like Nogegon, which looks quite interesting and impressive. I’ll keep my eye out for later installments on other varieties of constraint!