Huh? Not what I thought
I’m confused by this. I got a couple books from my neighborhood LFL and discovered a little flyer inside to encourage this app. Says it’s immersive and there’s illustrations and music. I had imagined an app that would show a looping visual with music that would continue (maybe seamlessly looping as well) until I tapped it to note that I had read up to a certain point. Instead it’s the actual books that you can read, and there’s a visual and short tune (~30s) that can be accessed by parting the pages. So far, several pages into Dead But Now Ready, it’s only one illustration with one tune. Each time I’ve parted the pages, it’s the same experience as the last. So you’re not getting music *while* you read, you get it for a few seconds while you pause reading. I tried letting it play while I read the physical copy I have, flipping the pages in the digital copy so I could have whatever “immersive” experience comes along as I read this book, but, like stated, all I’ve found so far is the same exact video when I part the pages. I find that holding a tangible book is more immersive than that.
Thankfully it at least did not require an account be made.
Silver lining: free, digital books.
Thankfully it at least did not require an account be made.
Silver lining: free, digital books.
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Review: Xiphactinus
I’ve stuck with the TooFar Media app and just read the latest multimedia offering inside! Imagine your conscience took the form of a seventeen-foot Mesozoic fossil. In Xiphactinus, Rich
Shapero takes a lyrical deep-dive into the primal, churning Interior Sea of identity, power, and transformation.
Shapero takes a lyrical deep-dive into the primal, churning Interior Sea of identity, power, and transformation.
A unique and interactive storytelling format
It’s quite an expansive world on the app, with a collection of writings by Shapero not only supplemented by amazing art, sounds and video but enhanced by it. The media is ethereal enough guide and open the imagination without being so heavy handed that you’re left feeling like a passenger as opposed to the co-explorer that you are.
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Super cool
Inspiring use of digital media
Thanks, TooFar Media!
I've been looking for an app like this, without knowing exactly what I was looking for until I found it! It showcases a new way of telling stories, consisting of (mostly short) novels and then paintings and music and videos that you have to dig down to unlock, and that change from chapter to chapter. The novels themselves are pretty edgy and otherworldly and lyrically written. Some of the artwork is incredibly beautiful and like nothing I've ever seen. Some of the paintings are actually animated, which is especially cool. And the music takes the stories to even deeper dimensions with original songs and fantastic vocals. I feel like I stumbled on a digital treasure and keep on going back to read and watch and listen to yet another immersive story.
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