Infinite Limits

E-lit Example

           While displaying a bottomless and endless looping of words and images, Project for Tachistoscope (Bottomless Pit) by William Poundstone, does a good job of showing a narrative story through rapid movement. Poundstone’s story is not only one of words, but images that quickly are displayed behind each word, really having nothing to do with the word itself. The idea is to make subliminal statements, while incorporating effective sound. It also makes the reader more aware of how distracting texts and images put together can be on your attention span and comprehension.

            The subliminal advertising continues as the story goes on, and it makes it very distracting to read the actual words being displayed so quickly. Some of the images placed behind the words were a table place setting, a present, and even a martini glass. The word in front of the martini class was concrete, not really relating the two at all. The complexity of this story is analogous to the idea of multiplicity. 

If you would like to see if you can figure out the subliminal messages of Poundstone, click here.