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This looks like an attractive idea, Greg.
One could make it even more hilarious/interesting by scrambling randomly the
words of the titles, like is done in the book macro of Gilles Tran for
instance.
Thomas
"Greg M. Johnson" <pte### [at] thecommononethatstartswithY com> schreef in
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>I just saw this post.
>
> I had an idea of spicing up the topics, the old system of which I often
> found deflating. When I felt I was going to be making a (nonetheless
> LAME-O) space epic when others were going to be making demos of special
> effects in photorealism, I was uninspired.
>
> http://base.google.com/base/a/1047972/D17372762218891870809
>
> I took the 5800 book titles available at Project Gutenberg and took out
> the
> 800-odd that I thought would be really fun to animate to-- things like
> Jules Verne, Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, some Shakespeare, some Twain, some
> Doyle. For example if the title were "Queen of Mars" you wouldn't
> necessarily have to go study that particular text in order to be on-topic,
> but the title itself just makes for all kinds of coolness.
>
> Folks could review the list to see if any were completely objectionable
> and
> then if we still have say >>>300 items we could pick from those on a
> random
> basis.
>
> I was half-thinking starting "my own" contest on youtube, but that may or
> may not be a good idea. ;-)
>
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