Comments on: Material description

By: Adam

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:11:29 +0000

My favourite episode of ‘Extras’ features Patrick Stewart.

I think you can see some of it here.

By: Roo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:07:33 +0000

Oh, but Patrick Stewart would be much prettier to listen to, wouldn’t he?

By: Roo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:04:25 +0000

Ooooh! It looks right now!

By: Adam

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:01:46 +0000

Ha, ha, now that you mention it…

Perhaps all poetry should be read as if Shatner was reading it.

*test runs Kipling’s ‘If’ inside own head*

Well, it works.

By: TonyB

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:53:29 +0000

I am the only person who can’t help but read that poem as if it was being spoken by William Shatner?

By: tia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:08:43 +0000

when i was first taught about concrete poetry in school, i hated it.
but now it’s starting to grow on me

By: tia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:07:43 +0000

really? I’m surprised
manga usually aren’t well-known outside of a few dedicated fans

By: Ben

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:33:42 +0000

You know, in the right mind set, they are both good outcomes that could be fun.

By: Adam

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:27:28 +0000

Unfortunately, wordpress has decided to become sentient to the level that it expresses a distinct hatred of ‘loose’ formatting.

We’re going to sit down and have a talk about it tonight and I’m going to put forward the case that liberal typesetting is an expressionistic art-form that will enable my readers to react on an aesthetic level… and wordpress will put forward the case that I can go and **** myself.

By: Ben

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:25:31 +0000

No, it is gone for ever.
Gone, like the wind.
It is water under the bridge.
It is thoughts stolen by a summer breeze.
It was not for here.

I really doubt that it had anything to do with the really cool new mods (that I refuse to use ), likely just Opera being difficult.

By: Roo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:59:52 +0000

Damn, I thought I knew what it was too. I give up.

By: Roo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:59:00 +0000

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it’s
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

e.e. cummings

By: Roo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:55:52 +0000

ack! Where’d all my line breaks go?

By: Roo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Well, you know what this calls for?

in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it’s spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee ~e.e. cummings

By: Adam

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:58:53 +0000

I know the one… a similar style to the subtitles in the film ‘Nightwatch’ (and possibly the sequel ‘daywatch’…which I have yet to see)… vampires galore there too, sort of.

By: tia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:44:42 +0000

now i really want to see it

By: tia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:57 +0000

the best example i know is Hellsing, by Kohta Hirano. the plot isn’t anything special, but the pictures and words and timing are all put together stunningly
( the Vatican and French colonel mercenaries under the command of a secret British organization take on vampire Nazis) (yay)

By: Adam

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:57:52 +0000

I hope the new comment thing wasn’t responsible…

….that did sound like a good comment too…

Is anyone else having problems?

I discussed the ramifications of graffitti on word art and society – any chance of getting that again?

By: Adam

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:39 +0000

I think it probably does… There is a complex relationshop between wordart, comics and concrete poetry. The lines are not that distinct.

Any novels in particular?

By: Ben

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:37:31 +0000

Grrr, I wrote a really good comment, and the wireless network died in the a**e, and opera lost the text, which is unusual.
*cries*
In my comment, I heavily alluded that this was a forum, by calling it such.
I mentioned Terry Pratchett, so you know it was a good comment.
I discussed the ramifications of graffitti on word art and society.
All that in a comment that was shorter then this one.
Impressive, no?

By: tia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:06:38 +0000

i’ve seen text placement used to great effect in graphic novels. i’m not sure whether that counts tho’