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Gorgeous work by Leo Burnett Iberia for Amnesty International. Watch Dhondup Wangchen's documentary "Leaving Fear Behind" here.
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Gorgeous work by Leo Burnett Iberia for Amnesty International. Watch Dhondup Wangchen's documentary "Leaving Fear Behind" here.
In Everything is a Remix Part 1, Kirby Ferguson began a four-part series exploring the influence of remixing in the creation of new works. The series continues below with Part 2: Remix, Inc. To find out more about the series, see a complete list of references and support Kirby’s time-consuming efforts visit everythingisaremix.info. Part 3 will be available later this summer.
At just 140 characters each, the form is limiting. But that’s the point. (So are sonnets.) And a well-aimed tweet can convey your message in a few seconds to the more than 1,000,000 people who hold Twitter accounts. The key to composing the perfect tweet is to:
- Pay attention to how the words sound. “Poetry is breath, it’s just air. If it’s being tweeted, that’s a representation, that’s the notation. The essence of poetry is what you hear.”
- Think about what it is you are actually saying. Then make every word count.
Big Think asked Pinsky to read his poem “The City,” then translate it into a tweet.
After brief a pause, this is what he came up with:
Pinsky actually pulled it off in exactly 100 characters!
I always ponder how Shakespeare and Cervantes would use Twitter.
This is really interesting and reminds me of Storify and Projeqt. Platforms for storytelling and molding the social web with content that is relevant to us in a way that makes it easy to share with our friends and peers are going to be very important as our virtual lives continue to intermingle with our real lives.
First there was Classical Music Milk and now, thanks to UK's Friends of the Earth there is Milk: A Love Story. Let's give them the happy ending they deserve.
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