NEW MEDIA: Animation? Stills?
Been wanting to do another visual poem since screwing around with Recycling a couple years ago. That was worked in Photoshop with drawings and photographs I’d done just to come up with something, and laid out in Windows Movie Maker.
I’m intrigued by the medium of animation–though since I’d had Albert Einstein toss his head across the courtyard to Socrates in Alice I’d recognized my limitations early on. Really should just take a course in animation or really buckle down to learn the basics on my own but I’m too easy on myself and let the training slide. I did enjoy the manipulation of images though, and maybe there’s a way of fooling around with that as long as I can either take the photos myself or get down again to drawing.
But even as I’m no writer, I’m even less the poet and even less, if possible, the artist. But poetry is short and simple and filled with imagery and feeling–or should be. Yet I’m a one-man-show here and it’s all just a learning thing rather than some kind of contest. The challenge is to me; the challenger is only me as well.
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