Screenshots of Despair
„This is a poem we found on the Internet“.
Character Encoding Poetry
Ich hasse Type-Encoding! Spätestens, seit ich wegen Datenbank-Blödsinns vor ein paar Jahren fast sämtliche Sonderzeichen „verloren“ habe und mit viel Gefrickel wieder herstellen musste. Jedenfalls: Ich hätte dem Thema damals auch ein Gedicht widmen können, wäre aber wahrscheinlich nicht so grandios geworden, wie diese Ode an einen Adressaufkleber. Fantastisch! Und den etwas holprigen Rythmus lassen einfach mal unter Latin1 fallen. GO LÓPEZ!
ODE TO A SHIPPING LABEL
Once there was a little o,
with an accent on top like só.It started out as UTF8,
(universal since ’98),
but the program only knew latin1,
and changed little ó to “ó” for fun.A second program saw the “ó”
and said “I know HTML entity!”
So “ó” was smartened to “ó”
and passed on through happily.Another program saw the tangle
(more precisely, ampersands to mangle)
and thus the humble “ó”
became “ó”
New York Times Haiku-Bot:
Ein Poetry-Bot, der Haikus aus Stories der New York Times generiert: „Times Haiku is a collection of what they are calling “serendipitous poetry,” derived from stories that have made the homepage of NYTimes.com.“
Beautiful Poetic JavaScript-Commenting
JavaScript, auskommentiert als Gedicht. Brillant! Ich hab’ hier mal ‘ne lokale Kopie gesichert: http://www.crackajack.de/wonder/lunametrics-youtube.js.
if(vidSrc.length>29){
if(vidSrc.substr(0,29)=="http://www.youtube.com/embed/"){
//It is a YouTube video!
//Rip apart it's source to obtain it's
//vile beating heart, the youtube id
var youtubeid = vidSrc.substr(29);
if(youtubeid.substr(-6)=="?rel=0"){
//cut off last 6 digits as hannibal did to atreides
//and offer them to your gods
cutlength = youtubeid.length - 6;
youtubeid = youtubeid.substr(0,cutlength);
}
//we now place the beating heart of the youtube id
//in our first heavenly array
videoArray[i] = youtubeid;
//and then mark the vile iframe beast
//with the id of this video so that all
//may know it, and reference it
$(this).attr('id', youtubeid);
//And for this, I am no longer nothing, I am more
i++;
}
lunametrics-youtube.js (via MeFi)
Iambic Pentameter Poetry via Twitterbot
Pentametron ist ein Twitterbot, „To find inadvertent poetry in the endless torrents of language that slosh around the internet“ – der Tweets auf ihren Sprachrythmus analysiert und retweetet, wenn sie in den jambischen Fünfheber passen. Funktioniert stellenweise erstaunlich gut: „The truest. Never.ever.look.the.same. I’m so addicted to the Simpsons game.“
These sonnets are being built in realtime by digging through hundreds of thousands of tweets per hour looking for only those few which happen to be in iambic pentameter. These tweets are retweeted on the @pentametron twitter feed and collected here in an approximation of sonnet form.
Pentametron takes each of the 30-60 tweets it receives each second, and looks up each word in a dictionary which lists the stress patterns of every word. If the rhythms of all the words put together seem to add up to iambic pentameter, Pentametron considers the tweet as a possible rhyme.
Pentametron (via Daniel)
Poetry made from Googles Autocomplete:
Google Poetics, Gedichte aus Googles Autovervollständigung: „Google writes poetry on subjects that people are truly interested in.“ (via Coudal)
Dan and Dans Poem utilizing the Theme of Fruits that rhyme with Acts of Violence
Dan and Dan (hier auf Twitter) gehören zu meinen Lieblings Youtube-Dingsbums, das waren die mit dem brillanten palindromischen Sketch. Diesmal haben sie Fruchtgewaltpoesie am Start (und vielleicht demnächst eine Sitcom bei der BBC, aber dazu sind die glaube ich zu sperrig) und ich hab’ bis heute nicht gerafft, ob das nur einer ist oder Zwillinge. Jedenfalls mag ich die Videos von Dan and Dan sehr, sehr gerne.
Poetry from Code
Vor ein paar Monaten hatte Ishac Bertran Coder dazu aufgerufen, Gedichte in Programmiersprachen einzuschicken, einzige Regeln: Die Programme dürfen 0,5kByte nicht übersteigen und müssen laufen. Das Projekt ist jetzt abgeschlossen und es gibt ein auf hundert Exemplare limitiertes Buch voller Poetry from Code. Toll!
Poetry is considered a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities. It contains multiple interpretations and therefore resonates differently in each reader. Code is the language used to communicate with computers. It has its own rules (syntax) and meaning (semantics). Like literature writers or poets, coders also have their own style that include – strategies for optimizing the code being read by a computer, and facilitating its understanding through visual organization and comments for other coders.
Code can speak literature, logic, maths. It contains different layers of abstraction and it links them to the physical world of processors and memory chips. All these resources can contribute in expanding the boundaries of contemporary poetry by using code as a new language. Code to speak about life or death, love or hate. Code meant to be read, not run.
Code Poems (via Wired)
The Color of our Galaxy is pure Poetry
Wissenschaftler haben auf dem 219. Treffen der American Astronomical Society die exakte Farbe der Milchstraße bestimmt. Keine große Überraschung: Sie ist weiss. Große Überraschung: Professor Jeffrey Newman beschreibt das in Gedichtform:
which has a fine grain size,
About an hour after dawn
Or an hour before sunset,
You’d see the same Spectrum of light
That an alien astronomer
In another galaxy
Would see looking at the Milky Way.
Poetry-Audiobook made from Kinski-Quotes:
Wahnsinnig tolles Hörspiel vom Dradio bestehend ausschließlich aus Kinski-Zitaten. Wenn man auch nur ein kleines Faible für Poesie hat – und ein Faible für Kinski haben sowieso alle –, sollte man sich das hier anhören: KLAUS KINSKI: Um mich herum ist es dunkel – und in mir wächst das Licht (Ursendung) – Hörspiel von Michael Farin und Peter Geyer (MP3, 23,6MB, lokale Kopie), Artikel zum Hörspiel (via Swen)
Aim For the Head, The Zombie Hunters Guide To Poetry
Spannendes Buch von Rob “Ratpack Slim” Sturma: „Aim For the Head, The Zombie Hunters Guide To Poetry“ versammelt Zombie-Gedichte und erscheint im Oktober 2011 bei Write Bloody Publishing.
Film buffs have George Romero. TV nerds have “The Walking Dead”. Fiction fans have World War Z. Now, a cross-section of some of the best contemporary poets from the stage and the page rise up and shamble their way through an anthology of post-apocalyptic zombie poetry edited by Write Bloody author and GeekWeek.com personality Rob “Ratpack Slim” Sturma. Funny, creepy, shocking, and even poignant, this collection challenges award winning authors like Scott Woods, Laura Yes Yes, and Khary Jackson to shake the dust off of old conventions, pull the triggers on their imaginations, and…Aim For The Head.
Amazon-Partnerlink: Aim for the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry
Bookmarks for June 29th: Bullettime Tesla Coil, Robots of Brixton, Poetry Shopdropping, Minecraft Katamari
Bullet time Tesla Coil: „10 cameras + 1 Tesla coil = 70 megapixel bullet time lightning.“
Robots of Brixton on Vimeo: „The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.“
3-D ‘Motion Pictures’ From The Civil War : The Picture Show : NPR: „Here are some animated stereoviews from the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection to show the images in 3-D by flickering the right and left sides of the views.“
LightScythe – The Mechatronics Guy: „The LightScythe is a device for writing text and images frozen in midair. The hardware information and software is open source and anyone can make it.“
A Journey Through The 1955 Disneyland Guidebook | Disney by Mark
Poetry Shopdropping With Agustina Woodgate for O, MIAMI: „We follow the artist sewing poetry tags into clothes at local thrift shops for monthlong poetry festival“
Paramount Cease and Desist Targets 3D Printer ‘Pirate’ | TorrentFreak
In violent video games, teens face (and fight) their demons: „Sixteen-year-old Evan Jones played his first violent videogames when he was 3. He slew demons in Diablo II, blasted Lovecraftian horrors in Quake and shot terrorists in Counter-Strike. If you buy conventional wisdom, by now Jones should be a tightly wound coil of aggression, ready to attack someone at the slightest provocation. Instead, he’s a pretty laid-back kid.“
Bookmarks for Juni 24th
- Vinyl Has Become Too Mainstream So Hipsters Now Making Records On Chocolate | Badass Digest:
- Plot Device on Vimeo: A young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.
- The math of the Rubik’s cube – MIT News Office: New research establishes the relationship between the number of squares in a Rubik’s-cube-type puzzle and the maximum number of moves required to solve it.
- nathaniel mellors at venice art biennale 2011: british-born, amsterdam-based artist nathaniel mellors displays 'hippy dialectics (ourhouse)' in 'illuminations,' the international exhibition curated by bice curiger at the venice art biennale 2011. a double-headed animatronic sculpture, the work delivers a short schizophrenic dialogue which is both humorous and disturbing. the parenthetical 'ourhouse' in the title refers to a video work by mellors, a surrealist sitcom about an eccentric family featuring two central figures, ‘daddy’ and ‘the object.’ 'hippy dialectics' features two versions of the 'daddy' character – one blue, one yellow – connected by a ribbon of hair. cast from the face of the actor in the film, the latex heads are brought to life by means of electronics and software. they deliver a looped kind of pep talk, including a range of compliments ('god, you're looking buff. no seriously, you look great!' and 'cool, you are cool!') before reaching an absurdist conclusion of rebutting 'yes' with 'no'.
- 555 Chip Footstool:
- The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys | The Awl: As anyone sold by the Sea-Monkey ads could tell you, it was hard to say exactly where von Braunhut was walking on the terrain between truth, embellishment and con. That was his gift. He convinced us to look at the jazz hands and lose sight of the footwork. Von Braunhut’s inventions were not quite what they seemed to be. Neither was he.
- Robots of Brixton on Vimeo: „The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.“
- 3-D ‘Motion Pictures’ From The Civil War : The Picture Show : NPR: „Here are some animated stereoviews from the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection to show the images in 3-D by flickering the right and left sides of the views.“
- Minecraft Katamari Damacy-Mod: „“
- Poetry Shopdropping: „“
- LightScythe – The Mechatronics Guy: „The LightScythe is a device for writing text and images frozen in midair. The hardware information and software is open source and anyone can make it.“
- Bullet time Tesla Coil: „“
- Paramount Cease and Desist Targets 3D Printer ‘Pirate’ | TorrentFreak: „“
- 10 cameras + 1 Tesla coil = 70 megapixel bullet time lightning: „“
- A Journey Through The 1955 Disneyland Guidebook | Disney by Mark: „“
- In violent video games, teens face (and fight) their demons: „Sixteen-year-old Evan Jones played his first violent videogames when he was 3. He slew demons in Diablo II, blasted Lovecraftian horrors in Quake and shot terrorists in Counter-Strike. If you buy conventional wisdom, by now Jones should be a tightly wound coil of aggression, ready to attack someone at the slightest provocation. Instead, he’s a pretty laid-back kid.“
- Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social | Epicenter | Wired.com: „“
- Time-lapse Spider in space: „Esmeralda the spider isn't wasting away from homesickness in space, in fact she's doubled in size. She's one of two golden silk orb-weaver spiders (Nephila clavipes) that was recently sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on NASA's last shuttle mission to space, as part of a national education project in the US. One of the experiments, designed by Stefanie Countryman and her team at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, involves comparing spider behaviour in space and on Earth. Students in elementary and middle schools across the country are watching videos like this one of the spiders spinning webs in near-weighlessness and looking for differences from the same set-up in their classrooms.“
- Tiny Steve Jobs Still Makes More Money than You Do – Technabob: „1/6 scale Steve Jobs Limited Edition 12-inch Collectible Figurine which will include a 1/6 scale Steve Jobs head sculpt and 12-inch figure body plus 1/6 Scale items such as the iMac, Magic Mouse, keyboard, iPhone 4, iPad 2, Desk, Chair, Steve's outfit (New balance 992 sneakers, black T-shirt and jeans).“
- The Archiver on Vimeo: „“
- Splitscreen: A Love Story on Vimeo: „“
- Göbekli Tepe – The Birth of Religion: „We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.“
- BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society | Brain Pickings: „What The French Revolution has to do with the love of nature and the birth of the modern individual.“
- Inside Commodore DOS: „Inside Commodore DOS : the complete guide to the 1541 disk operating system.“
- YouTube – Solarnauts (Part 1 of 3): „An unsold pilot for a proposed 1967 sci-fi actioner out of the UK. Eye-popping costumes and sets belie an overall cheesy but charming tone. Cast of familiar but un-nameable Brit character actors, only Bond-Girl Martine Beswick stands out. Beware of LOGIK! You have been warned…“
- The Vintage Drink: „“
- History Cookbook – Cookit!: „Do you know what the Vikings ate for dinner? What a typical meal of a wealthy family in Roman Britain consisted of, or what food was like in a Victorian Workhouse? Why not drop into history cookbook and find out? This project looks at the food of the past and how this influenced the health of the people living in each time period.“
- Afghanistan’s Amazing DIY Internet | Fast Company: „FabFi is an ambitious project which is creating Internet networks for eastern Afghanistan whose main components can be built out of trash. It's low-tech, it's simple–and it works.“
- OpenWatch | Demand Marvelous Secrets: „OpenWatch, a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures.“
Gil Scott-Heron R.I.P.
Gil Scott-Heron, New Yorker Poet, Bürgerrechtler, Funk- und Jazz-Legende und Schöpfer des Satzes „The revolution will not be televised“ verstarb gestern im Alter von nur 62 Jahren. R.I.P.
Guardian: Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America’s rough healer, NPR: Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died, hier ein Interview vom New Yorker von 2010: New York Is Killing Me – The unlikely survival of Gil Scott-Heron.
Nach dem Klick ein paar Videos und der Text zu „The revolution will not be televised“.
Haïkus extracted from Wikileaks’ Cables
Fabrice von Tetalab hat mit dem Haikufinder 65 Haikus in den Wikileaks-Cables gefunden. Hier drei meiner Favs:
As is typical,
the Pope stayed above the fray
and did not comment.Instead, he gulped three
cans of Coca-Cola while
inhaling his food.The Opel story
has dominated the news
November 4-5.
Haïkuleaks Cable is poetry 65 haikus in 1830 cables (via MeFi)
