November 4th, 2008 / 2:44 pm
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Fou No. 2

The second issue of Fou is up. I’ve never seen a website that conceptualized the innate scrolling aspect of the internet so well. The entire issue is on the main index page, braced by a rather tall tree. One immediately scrolls down, having nowhere to click. Various animals reside on segments of the tree. One reaches a cluster of birds, each marked with a writer’s name. A click on a bird throws you off a branch, falling virtually, to each respective poem.

This sounds annoying, the way many journals are self-suffocated under flash and other cumbersome scripts, but there’s something light, intuitive, and fresh about this.

Brad Soucy, who I assume is the designer, has taken a usually boring trait (scrolling) and transcended its medium into something viscerally evokative.

(Btw: if you try to view this in internet explorer, you have major issues.)

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16 Comments

  1. November 4th, 2008 / 6:55 pm Blake Butler—

      i liked it. and they actually had one or two people who aren’t editors and with several books this time.

      1 or 2

      a start?

  2. November 4th, 2008 / 2:55 pm Blake Butler—

      i liked it. and they actually had one or two people who aren’t editors and with several books this time.

      1 or 2

      a start?

  3. November 4th, 2008 / 6:59 pm Jimmy Chen—

      still very impressive/alienating contributors list. fou-get about it.

  4. November 4th, 2008 / 2:59 pm Jimmy Chen—

      still very impressive/alienating contributors list. fou-get about it.

  5. November 4th, 2008 / 7:34 pm ryan call—

      i liked this

  6. November 4th, 2008 / 3:34 pm ryan call—

      i liked this

  7. November 4th, 2008 / 8:51 pm colin bassett—

      i was excited to see matthew savoca

  8. November 4th, 2008 / 4:51 pm colin bassett—

      i was excited to see matthew savoca

  9. November 4th, 2008 / 9:43 pm daniel bailey—

      fou looks really awesome. they never responded to my submission though, so fuck that.

  10. November 4th, 2008 / 5:43 pm daniel bailey—

      fou looks really awesome. they never responded to my submission though, so fuck that.

  11. November 5th, 2008 / 12:26 am Kevin Sampsell—

      That’s neat.

  12. November 4th, 2008 / 8:26 pm Kevin Sampsell—

      That’s neat.

  13. November 5th, 2008 / 1:57 pm Justin Taylor—

      Good to see the healing between this blog and Fou.

      The Obama Years are going to be the healingest ever. All we’re going to do is sit around and get healed. Then we’ll hurt ourselves on purpose so we can get healed again. Anybody want to touch my new wound? Better hurry–it’ll be healed soon.

  14. November 5th, 2008 / 9:57 am Justin Taylor—

      Good to see the healing between this blog and Fou.

      The Obama Years are going to be the healingest ever. All we’re going to do is sit around and get healed. Then we’ll hurt ourselves on purpose so we can get healed again. Anybody want to touch my new wound? Better hurry–it’ll be healed soon.

  15. November 7th, 2008 / 11:52 am ryan manning—

      the virgins are coming

  16. November 7th, 2008 / 7:52 am ryan manning—

      the virgins are coming