new story at webyarns.com
Hi, everyone–
It has not been long since the last one, but there's a new story at webyarns.com…
“This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time….
The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com
Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released a few months ago, is availa
ble at
http://webyarns.com/MyNervousBreakdown.html
For other stories, both new and old, please visit http://www.webyarns.com
Many thanks for your interest!
yours,
alan
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4 Responses to “new story at webyarns.com”.
…and the voice keeps playing in my head … A…
A tree…
everything turned on its head – certainly puts the chip in the chipko movement, regrettably
very powerful
I’m all for chipko, but better it be virtual than actual limbs hacked through with axes…
Thanks for taking a look, Christine. A tree is a tree is a tree…
Excellent! This is absolutely one of your best, Alan! Is that your voice intoning the words, or is it a speech-software package you found somewhere? The other thing I’d like to know is what exactly is going on with the peculiar tree-hugging (or is it tree-destroying) figure which appears in the middle after you’ve taken all the words and moved them into the outer circle? I like the ambiguity of it, mind you.
My only slight problem was that working both ways – moving the words from the middle to the outer circle, and also moving them back in again – I found the last thing I was left with was a solitary “a”, and it was really hard to hit.
Apart from that one little niggle, I really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s much of a poem, really, but when you start to take words out it comes to life in a new way as it gets stripped down and the meaning gets more abstract. The quietness of the speaking voice really helps here, I think.
- Edward
Hi, Edward–Thanks so much for your comments! Yes, it’s my voice, and text by Joyce Kilmer…
The video in the center is a tree-cutting machine that very efficiently, and brutally, reduces trees to logs and brush. It lifts the whole tree into the air and strips it of its branches in the same way we might strip a flower of its petals. Then it cuts the trunk into fireplace-sized chunks. Multiply that by a hundred of these machines in a forest, each one stripping fifty trees a day, and you get the idea….
Thanks for the tip on the letter “A.” I will fix that…