Deep Philosophical Questions/Lord's Prayer, The

Alan Bigelow

Deep Philosophical Questions (2008)

Comic strips and philosophy are combined in this digital fiction to answer six important questions. "Deep Philosophical Questions" offers a brief story in illustration of each question, but these stories are designed to slip between the cracks of serious philosophy, into a place where logic and pedantry have no play.

The work is created in Flash and uses copyright-free comic strips from the Golden Age of Comics (American comic books created in the 1930s and 1940s). The strips have been re-colored and digitally edited to enhance their clarity and to accommodate new dialogue boxes and Flash animations. A credits page on the site credits, among others, the marvelous work of GoldenAgeComics.co.uk, without whom this digital story could not have been completed.

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Lord's Prayer, The (2008)

"Lord's Prayer, The" (2007) takes the original English version of "The Lord's Prayer" (in this case, a variation of the King James Version) and, using the same words, creates an entirely new poem. The work was created in Flash, and the viewer must navigate the page in order to see the revision of the original prayer into its new form. In addition to the text, "Lord's Prayer, The" also uses both images and sound to help in the text's transformation--they evolve as the text evolves, and all the elements are synthesized at the end of the transformation, when the new text coalesces out of the old.

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Biography

Alan Bigelow writes digital stories for the web. These stories are created in Flash and use images, text, audio, video, and other components. These stories are created for viewing on the web, although they can be (and have been) shown as gallery installations.

His work, installations, and conversations concerning digital fiction have appeared in many venues both on and off-line. Currently, in addition to teaching full-time at Medaille College, he is a visiting online lecturer in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, UK.

You can see Alan Bigelow's work at webyarns.com.