rawLorem Ipsum is a remix from a number of sources including rawVamp (http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?p=595 ), which (re)animates material from the Visible Human Viewer, and an image by John Moore Williams called loremipsum2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/visimages/3412855644/ ). I'd often used Lorem Ipsum as placeholder text in DTP and web design projects and I was intrigued by John's reference to it in his image. When I looked into it further (http://www.lipsum.com/ ) I discovered it wasn't nonsense text, as I'd thought, but from a treatise by Cicero. I used some of the phrases from the translation by Rackham, randomly animated.
That's fascinating. When my father died last September I inherited some of his books, including treatises by Cicero in Latin on rhetoric; they're in a book published in 1514. What's interesting about the book is the 'instability' of its format; printed books were still relatively new, and this one is from the Aldine Press (they invented the italic font among other things). And I wonder about that instability, and the instability in our takes on mapping the human and avatars at this point - what we're doing and thinking now will probably appear quaint and ignorant twenty years in the future...
Can you explain rawLorem Ipsum and the Cicero comment? Unfortunately my Latin is now more than rusty... Thanks, Alan
ReplyDeleterawLorem Ipsum is a remix from a number of sources including rawVamp (http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?p=595 ), which (re)animates material from the Visible Human Viewer, and an image by John Moore Williams called loremipsum2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/visimages/3412855644/ ). I'd often used Lorem Ipsum as placeholder text in DTP and web design projects and I was intrigued by John's reference to it in his image. When I looked into it further (http://www.lipsum.com/ ) I discovered it wasn't nonsense text, as I'd thought, but from a treatise by Cicero. I used some of the phrases from the translation by Rackham, randomly animated.
ReplyDeleteThat's fascinating. When my father died last September I inherited some of his books, including treatises by Cicero in Latin on rhetoric; they're in a book published in 1514. What's interesting about the book is the 'instability' of its format; printed books were still relatively new, and this one is from the Aldine Press (they invented the italic font among other things). And I wonder about that instability, and the instability in our takes on mapping the human and avatars at this point - what we're doing and thinking now will probably appear quaint and ignorant twenty years in the future...
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