In fact, by not calling attention to itself, the text disappears in the way a good font does: nothing stands between Katniss and the reader, between Panem and America.
Seattle-based mobile remittance app Remitly — which lets people in the U.S. send money to India or the Philippines — has acquired Talio, a picture messaging app co-founded by ex-Amazon engineers with Snapchat-like features to let images and text disappear if you wish.
It is interesting to note how the literal meaning of the text disappears and reveals a different aesthetic: its graphic form, which reminds us of the generative typography shown in Mis.shap.en.ess by Reza Ali.
This will make some of the text disappear from being viewable, which is what we want at the moment.
He wisely came to me when she suggested he use SendVapor.com, an iPhone app that makes your texts disappear before your mother can read them.
After clicking on a thumbnail, the images will be presented fullscreen on a plain black background (try saying that 6 times quickly), with the text disappearing after a few moments.
Note: After writing the prior draft of this article, then meant to be the final draft, I experienced the entire text disappearing in an instant during the upload, with no remaining version available.
Plus, you have to click out of a blank message (after the text has disappeared) to reply, instead of being able to type a reply on that same screen.
After the text has disappeared, your iPod should boot into iPod Linux.
Ligon layers the text in the same way that Reich layered voice recordings in his performance, so that eventually both sound and text almost disappear into abstraction: but not quite.
