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. 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. 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. Jimmy Chen

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

  4. Jimmy Chen

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

  5. ryan call

      i liked this

  6. ryan call

      i liked this

  7. colin bassett

      i was excited to see matthew savoca

  8. colin bassett

      i was excited to see matthew savoca

  9. daniel bailey

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

  10. daniel bailey

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

  11. Kevin Sampsell

      That’s neat.

  12. Kevin Sampsell

      That’s neat.

  13. 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. 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. ryan manning

      the virgins are coming

  16. ryan manning

      the virgins are coming