I could     have been     a footballer
But I     had         a paper round.

I could     make out     a cadence
But I        
       
        misuse     a metrical
                        beat.

        take out     a        
        representative.     outperform

                development  infuse
        mouth

I         make        a      track
    I     voice

            bourgeois     metrical bar
But I
   
    market public         liverpool
    georgian city     a     better past.

I
But I

I could     carp up
But I

I could     store public     soul         cyprinid fish
But I     language  a city

I could                 smithereen
Sodom up     a capitalist   
But I     Elamite love lyric     Almaty

I could         stash away     aggregation     up a
capitalist     cyprinid         malacopterygian
But I     Caucasian             mate text

I could     gray away
        Dnipropetrovsk         crucian carp     whitefish
But I     honky hubby         missive         Kandahar

I could         mean             magnetic
But I passage

I could                     symbolise         a key    
        reproductive         structure         composing
                                             a worse       
                   
                        rhizome
                                    a worse        

                        awful
rootstock         flower
                        worsened

                                    stalk draw

   
                        dreadful         efficient
shuck steep     near to crown     block up
            type            anger

            surrounded     end             lines    
            rhizome mind
But I        

I     bear bounds             ignoble         line of descent     wad up an         end
    central                 near to         rootstock
But I     blood             a writing style         forever     of

        extent             ignoble         out        of        
        literary line                                                up

But I                     describe elegance         of

        contrarian expanse                                 bite off
                    a        
                        diagonal stem                                 up

But I                                 heart      
        adumbrate flair     forever

I could                                                 nibble
           
But I
                flair     forever       

I                                                     chomp off
   

                panache     evermore   

            sweep radix    
           
                    city-born
                elan     forevermore

I             scope
                    fabric
    I

I             name         geographical                         ache    
endmost        


            linage     of         geographical
gastralgia

            pensive
    I
            Olympian        

I                 false
                        endmost
    I

forevermore

I could         hold fast tabula rasa
                                shooting iron        near to
fresh
            body                                    the key curved
    Things impel systems

                            of useful
effusion     off             a         carob scarlet runner     venting near
lyric blank                     monastery
                                    actual
Things evoke systems                of
poetry            

I could                        clinch nomination     cleft     useful
rubber-necking     debacle             off         a     divi-divi pastoral gum
                                                choral ode
But I     encroach                  rhizomatic high-water
    the    
                            magnetic martingale of

                            co-option             blepharism of
                    debacle             a     divi-divi euphorbium
                                widow’s
        sparkle
     the                Things take     the system        off

I could                                         defile
But I        muster
        dander
                clinch

But I             remain last         map-reader
    the key        system
                 alone.

Dear XXXXXX XXXXXX,

I saw the call for articles via XXXXXX online.  (Please see below my abstract and some background info.)

warm regards
John O’Shea


=============================================

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) is a wonderful work, hence, quite enough has been written about it.

A dynamic textual mash-up of existing critical readings offers a more relevant and immediate dialogue with this seminal piece.

=============================================

(response)

Dear John,

Your idea is a very good one. But I’d like you to rewrite the abstract. There will probably be about 7 or 8 articles on the film, studying it from various perspectives, and I would not be happy about publishing an abstract stating that quite enough has already been written on the subject. So please leave that out, and please find something that sounds just a bit more scholarly than a “textual mash-up.” Will you offer a critical survey of the literature on the film, comparing the various approaches that have been proposed? Please tell a bit more about what you plan to do and in a manner that would be appropriate for a peer-reviewed journal, though without sounding tedious.

Hope you don’t mind sending a new abstract before I can give a green light to your excellent idea.

Best,
XXXXXXX

Using subtitle (.srt) files as a way of playing with language in relation to video. full article here.

3 00:00:45,000 —> 00:00:49,000 Tommy previously worked in the docks 4 00:00:50,000 —> 00:00:51,500 The Union is on strike 5 00:00:51,500 —> 00:00:56,000 It is his happiness … It’s hard,

A bit of kit we didn’t touch on in practice, but which is totally relevant… and this is an amazing application and good comments too…

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/enough-already-the-arduino-solution-to-overexposed-celebs.html

//this code requires rita wordnet library

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import rita.wordnet.*;

RiWordnet wordnet;

String word;

String searchWord;

ArrayList display;

int myLimit=0;

PFont font;

int limiter=16;

void setup() {

  size(800,600);

  display=new ArrayList();

  frameRate(20);

  //font=loadFont(“MicrosoftSansSerif-36.vlw”);

  font=loadFont(“Courier-Bold-36.vlw”);

  textFont(font,36);

  wordnet = new RiWordnet(this);

  searchWord=wordnet.getRandomWord(“v”);

  searchWord=”cocainise”;

}

void draw() {

  background(0);

  text(searchWord, width-textWidth(searchWord)-50, height/2);

  if(frameCount%60==0) {

    display=new ArrayList();

    recur(1,searchWord);

  }

    for(int i=0;i<display.size();i++) {

      String displayMe=(String)display.get(i);

      fill(255,50+(map(cos(map(i,0,limiter,-PI/2,PI/2)),0,1,0,150)));

      text(displayMe,50+(i*10),36+(i*36));

      println(i+” “+cos(map(i,0,limiter,-PI/2,PI/2)));

  }

}

void recur( int level, String thisWord) {

  String [] syns=wordnet.getSynonyms(thisWord, “v”);

  try {

    thisWord=syns[0];

  }

  catch(Exception e) {

    println(e);

  }

  // text(“I will “+thisWord,50+(level*10),(level*36));

  String temp=”I will “+thisWord;

  display.add(temp);

  println(display.size());

  if(level<limiter) {

    level++;

    recur( level, thisWord);

  }

}

void keyPressed() {

  searchWord=wordnet.getRandomWord(“v”);

   display=new ArrayList();

  recur(1,searchWord);

}

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/25316376?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0” width=”400” height=”300” frameborder=”0”></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/25316376”>haiku</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user804984”>Maya Chowdhry</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

i grew this haiku watched by a digital camera with an interval timer.  i’m interested in where code could take this…

some of my other work

hurry curry - one of my poetry films