I was bowled over by Tanya Lau’s Storify that curated a long collaborative poem and its ripples out into her world.
I started to respond with a PopcornMaker media piece to try to sum up, but it was so rhizomatic and extended that I gave up. I am still working on a Popcorn on the original poem that inspired everyone, but I wanted to do something today, not next week. I took Tanya’s vocaroo mp3
and made some notes
And then turned those scribbles above made from her inspired voice and translated them into the zeega below.
Thanks to the passel of folk who have woven themselves into the cloth that is here, there, and many unnamed ‘elsewheres’. Neat!
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Terry. Thank you so much for doing this. I’m so touched by the gesture. and even more so by the zeega itself. You have such a talent in getting to the heart of a message with visuals and music. Watching it genuinely took me back to that night, when I felt that clink of realisation about the power of voice and narrative, and recorded that message for Kevin.
Great way to start the day – I’m glad I watched it instead of getting ready to work. I’ll be thinking of this all day.
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This is all that I can expect. So much of what we learn is felt, isn’t it. Embodied knowing. I get that click when I find just the right gif or image to fit the text and the music. Oddly, not everything fits and you get the alternative sense of “good enough”. Odd because I am not dissatisfied by the feeling. Just a lighter version of the click. I think that lighter version is one of my greatest personal discoveries over the past year. Thanks for helping me to reach a clearer sense of feel for that lighter click!
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Terry, just revisiting this post now and saw your replies.
I love your thinking, and I know exactly what you mean about ‘not everything fits’ and getting a ‘lighter version of the click’. And you know, sometimes that actually ends up being better – its part of the evolution of an idea, the morphing into a slightly new interpretation of the original that occurs with any remix. It’s this evolution that I find fascinating – what happens when different people play with an idea.
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Love seeing your handwritten notes too – insight into the creative & thinking process. I still use pen and paper to scribble down moments of inspiration…and love coming across them by accident.
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Gosh
This is beyond lovely, Terry. Inspiring use of Zeega, your words and Tanya’s ideas ….
Kevin
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Well…lot’s of Tanya’s words, too. I think what I am moving towards is customized multimedia. The translation (which I mention several times above) is from text toward rich text. Like all good modern rhet/comp dudes, I believe that everything is text. Zeega goes a long way toward proving that. Been experimenting with PopcornMaker as well, but it has a very different and more complex workpath that I am still learning. Just adding the timing element to each event in Popcorn is enough to completely change the dynamic from Zeega.
I am also learning that it takes time to live within a creative work. That is bad for me because I am so impatient. C’est la whatever. I am very thankful to have you as part of my audience. I am often reminded of when my kids were acting on a regular basis in our local rep theater. They might have a run of twenty productions over the summer. While it was exciting to be in the audience when it was a full house, I think that the acting was often the best when the audience was small. The actors seemed to work a lot harder to connect. So it is with my audience of you and the other fine few. I work harder because I can see your faces in the seats. Thanks.
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Such interesting ideas – really intrigued by the idea of looking at this multimedia remix as a ‘translation’ of text.
Poignant point about the power of a smaller audience – yes. I have come to that line of thinking too, as a result of these online collaborative learning experiences and interacting within cMoocs – what drives you is the opportunity for personal connection with other people who you can connect with in a deeper and more meaningful way; who inspire you to try new things and experiment and explore. This is certainly one key qualitative difference between smaller cMoocs and the more massive xMoocs.
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I was bowled over too – by you both. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thanks, Jenny. Kudos especially to Tanya as author and muse. That is a rare combo, yes?