Modcult

The Dan Brown Code By Umberto Eco

In the today’s “you probably read this in the magazine”, Questions for Umberto Eco:

I am wondering if you read Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code,” which some critics see as the pop version of your “Name of the Rose.”
I was obliged to read it because everybody was asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in my novel, “Foucault’s Pendulum,” which is about people who start believing in occult stuff.

But you yourself seem interested in the kabbalah, alchemy and other occult practices explored in the novel.
No, in “Foucault’s Pendulum” I wrote the grotesque representation of these kind of people. So Dan Brown is one of my creatures.

Mission Stencil Story

Cool public-art-hypertext (or maybe “walking novel” is a better term for this medium) project images in this photoset. I missed the original press when it went up, but will try and see if any are still up this weekend.

“The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose your-own-adventure story that takes place of the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.”

I could see some awesome possibilites for this- perhaps merged with say new books in the City Noir series.

(via if:book)