Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:871 comp.multimedia:386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!thom From: thom@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Images vs. Text Message-ID: <1991Apr23.222248.15879@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 22:22:48 GMT References: <1991Apr17.204748.8994@agate.berkeley.edu> <5706@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 In article <5706@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> beb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Brian E. Bradley) writes: > > I do not believe the statement about crying people fleeing "Birth of a >Nation" in distress over their viewing of "giant heads": they had been seeing >them in films for over twenty years by then! Not to mention "larger-than-life" >busts, statuary, paintings, etc... > > Another Urban Legend from the Past... I'm sure that at MIT you can find a copy of "The Elements of Friendly Software Design" by Paul Heckel. Either edition will do. The more recent one is the more interesting. The essense of what Heckel says is that th engineers don't know what has happened in the past and will not be the ones to design the new media in the future just as the engineers eventually stopped being significant in the design of the both the film and TV media. If you have never seen a 10 foot head move and talk it might be quite startling ... try to imagine. I also mentioned "The Birth of the nation " film with Citizen Kane and Wells use of unusual film techniques which the viewers didn't understand. Do you dispute that? --Thom Gillespie