Remember our reading about the difference between a blog entry and a news story? One of the key differences being that a blog allows for more of an "in flux" telling of a story, with constant updates, modifications, and even flat-out apologies for erroneous information, whereas news articles need to be fairly airtight before going to print.
I was thinking about other ways that the internet allows for this in flux storyline, and here is an example of how art and entertainment intersect in an ongoing form.
Layer Tennis Match invites two graphic artists (or two small teams of artists) to post "volleys" of different iterations of a design onto this public website. The artists swap the file back and forth, parse and embellish the work for fifteen minutes, and then post their volley to the site. The volleying is broadcast live and each volley is commented on by a guest writer. The matches last for ten volleys then a winner is declared.
I enjoyed this latest edition of the tennis match, which features a clever take on the game of tennis itself.
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In choosing the winner, the guest writer also would seem to have watched the volley of commentary that occurs in the Forums as well. Very engaging.
And it's on Friday afternoons, so now my productivity will end even earlier in the week!
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