May 28, 2007

Boring comics...now in motion!

I missed this but apparently The New Yorker has been making short animated versions of "classic" cartoons . I have to question the need to laboriously convert cartoons that take two seconds to read into cartoons that take ten seconds to watch. I mean, why not convert all their "classic" essays into dowloadable audio read by James Earl Jones? C'mon New Yorker, lose that Old Media obsession with words printed on paper.

3 Comments:

Blogger Tim Tylor said...

It's hopelessly implemented too - there's no way of letting it finish loading before you play it, so if your connection's slow it plays in sorry bursts and sputtles. (Sorry if this ends up double-posting: I'm having sign-in trouble.)

9:43 AM  
Blogger Matt Bors said...

yeah, I noticed that. It's pretty annoying.

12:27 PM  
Blogger kelly said...

i had to watch the dog cartoon three times before i could understand what he's whispering. I'd suggest sub-titles, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose.

12:44 PM  

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