Defense against the darkness ( a virtual monastery library)

[rivertext]

Hi, I've been posting my photographs of the resistance to Bush here on DU for a couple of years. I thought I'd post an ad for my just released 'defense against the darkness' -- I began working on the If Monks had Macs CD-ROM during the Reagan regime as a response to moral scolds like Bill Bennett and George F. Will who talked and wrote as if they were the guardians of Western Civilization. Here is a brief overview of this legendary work:

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If Monks had Macs has been in the fight to take our culture back from corporate sponsorship since 1988.



The Monks CD-ROM's provocative text is beautifully illustrated, quick and deep. In one of the books a life-size image of Bruegel's stunning vision of the Tower of Babel fills a virtual screen several times the size of most computer monitors. The text, which fits into the captions to 100 illustrations, examines the facts and some wild lies written about a masterpiece created during the first years of mankinds' most revolutionary idea – multi-national capitalism.

  

The volume on The White Rose resistance to the Nazis features the photos and memoirs of one of their surviving members, the music of Beethoven, Schubert and Bach, art of the German Expressionists and a new focus on the relationship between art and resistance.

  

From your desk overlooking the cloister you'll hear the fountain, the birds, and occasionally a Gregorian chant as you access the library volumes on a 4-sided revolving bookcase. The library includes games and tools. The newest game, Killing Time, is contemplative solitaire for monks. The new version of the unique Monks "threaded" journal is a tool for exploring your inner world.

If you click on the journal pages on the desk in the cloister shown above a blank journal opens up. Above and to the left above is another volume -- one of these journals filled with a summer in the life of Henry David Thoreau. When Thoreau wrote on a theme such as moonlight, he had to began by ripping out or laboriously recopying the pages regarding the light of the moon from his journal. With our new electronic journal Thoreau could place all his journal entries that contain the key word "moonlight" or "moon" into a single thread. Then he could choose to view, save to a text file, or print out only these “moonlit” entries.

A thread is a powerful and flexible way to link a series of journal entries. A volume in the library entitled, "Get an Inner Life" introduces you to the structured journal in which you create categories such as, "Affirmations", "Dialogs" and "Dreams" first and then write into them.



In this 2005 edition of Monks new explorations in digital photography and film take the artist's passion for art and ideas out of the library and into the streets. There is much more in Monks than can be mentioned here including a new intellectual tool that is also available as a free download. If Monks had Macs now works on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows 95 through XP.

For more information about If Monks had Macs (or Windows) visit http://rivertext.com/

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P.S. Here is the latest thing I've done -- the conclusion of that "taking it into the streets" I referred to above:

http://rivertext.smugmug.com/gallery/259303/

[bluedonkey]

1. Looks interesting

Can't wait to get mine!
Also,downloaded Sophie,great e-books.

[myrna minx]

2. This looks so very interesting.

Are these still for sale? On edit, I just followed your link and found out that they are indeed for sale. This looks magnificent.