Comments on: The Invited Trespasser

By: Bec

Bec — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:32:05 +0000

To be honest it confused the heck out of me, even after the explanation… but then I am a simple kinda girl. Sorry Mel.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:14:02 +0000

10,10,10!! I LOVED it! I love the co-constructed, participatory nature; the fun of finding the hidden doors; the ambiguity of the content. I have to admit that when I had trouble finding some of the hidden doors.. I CHEATED – I noticed the pattern in the urls for each door, so I went up and just changed the number in the url going from 1 to 10 to make sure I didn’t miss a single one! Is that like climbing in the window? I hope it is This was just so much fun to me

By: coffeegrl

coffeegrl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:44:19 +0000

I’m with nixy, I was using Firefox and a laptop with a touchpad so when I “moused over” the door, it appeared to be a single point of entry and I kept ending up in “room 10″. This gave me the sense that there were other rooms but I couldn’t immediately find them and moved on for lack of time. But I thought it seemed like a fun idea. Now I understand better – thanks! How fun!

By: nixy

nixy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:25:41 +0000

oh! and on my mac, the entire door is clickable when moused over, you can’t tell if there are individual spots.

By: nixy

nixy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:23:37 +0000

I totally thought that the fact I couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on was because I use a Mac. I thought I was completely missing something.

However, now that I know what’s going on, it’s really really cool. I’ll have to spend some time playing with it when I get a chance.

By: niobe

niobe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:42:20 +0000

Count me among the clueless who had absolutely no idea what was going on. Videos and sound files are disabled by our firewall, which probably didn’t help either.

By: Bea

Bea — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:24:45 +0000

(1) finding the door post and figuring out what to do
The main trouble was not having the time on the first pass to play around with it. On the one hand, you wanted the impact of bang – it’s there – what’s this? and on the other I was sitting down to skim through some blogs in a spare couple of minutes and so that was not a format I was able to engage with at that moment. But! I did like it once I got a chance to sit and play, although I had skimmed through the top of this post first, and I wonder if it would have felt different if I hadn’t, not necessarily better or worse, but just caught me differently. When the next one comes along I think I’ll be readier for it, due to the fore-warning.

and (2) exploring behind the door.

That was cool. Did you achieve your aim? Yes, I think so. It was a weird selection of slices, ones we don’t usually see.

Bea

By: Baby Smiling In Back Seat

Baby Smiling In Back Seat — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:58:11 +0000

It took me a few minutes, largely because the first one I opened was one of the sound files which is less straightforward than some of the others. At first I did think it was a random link generator, but soon saw that there were zones.

As a linear thinker, I only looked for the different numbers on the door itself and didn’t find 1 and 4 until I went back after reading this post, knowing that they must exist somewhere.

By: Circus Princess

Circus Princess — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:31:58 +0000

I didn’t stick around long enough to “get it”. I never tried the door knob… I think I knocked first… But it sparked my curiosity! I love that you’re expanding the box of blogging

By: A.M.S.

A.M.S. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:32:16 +0000

Yeah, sorry about door #6 being hard to find. That was my fault. I sent mel the coordinates for that part of the map with a typo in it, so it was only two pixels wide. We’ve fixed it now!