Big Writing

Screencap from Verbosity. “The land yields valuable...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:51:25 -0400

Screencap from Verbosity. “The land yields valuable letters. Harvest letters by constructing buildings over them. Construct buildings by spelling them.” (Spoilers: if you’re stuck, try this list of words.) (via)

Vector display Twitter client, via MAKE.

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:12:14 -0400

Vector display Twitter client, via MAKE.

(via IndieGames.com - Title: Subtitle - an atypical, textual...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:43:58 -0400

(via IndieGames.com - Title: Subtitle - an atypical, textual take on a platformer)

concordancepoems: RAPIDLY and roofs are talking rapidly all...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:11:29 -0400

concordancepoems:

RAPIDLY

and roofs are talking rapidly all together there happens
or a but of rapidly foes gobs the an
my bruising smile; as rapidly upon the jiggled norm
/ life boosts herself rapidly at me through sagging
nakedness until it go rapidly to bed: i will
have watched certain petals rapidly wish in the corners
pass loudly and gondola rapidly denizens of Omaha Altoona
five other fingers snitch rapidly through mist a defunct
He. spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
who step smoothly and rapidly along this pole over
sea, in the afternoon. rapidly a reddish ant travels
or threes which fiercely rapidly pass with their breaths)
nowehere else imagine Now rapidly this (a forest has

From:
McBride, Katharine Winters. A Concordance to the Complete Poems of E. E. Cummings. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1989. Print. The Cornell Concordances.

nossidge: i am the path along unseen heather Snowball (also...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:40:25 -0400

nossidge:

i
am
the
path
along
unseen
heather
Snowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer. One of the constrained writing techniques utilised by the Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature).
o
we
all
have
heard
people
believe
anything
Given the mathematical genesis of the Oulipo and the interest in the movement among other programmers, I thought that someone must have created a program to generate these, and I was surprised that I couldn’t find one even after some pretty thorough Googling. So I wrote one myself. The C++ code is here.

It takes input from a text file which contains novels from Project Gutenberg, scans for word pairs where the second word is longer by one letter, and builds up a poem using Markov chains.
i
am
the
dawn
light
before
anybody
expected
something
disorderly
The poems in this post were all created by the program. They have not been edited.
i
am
the
very
great
change

Animated performance of CRAPCHA (Completely Ridiculous And Phony...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:03:07 -0400

Animated performance of CRAPCHA (Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement).

Animated GIF of output from molleindustria’s The...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:30:38 -0400

Animated GIF of output from molleindustria’s The Definition of Games.

Guitar notes translated into keystrokes. (via)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:30:25 -0400

Guitar notes translated into keystrokes. (via)

Screencap from the sadly defunct @samsabot.

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:30:00 -0400

Screencap from the sadly defunct @samsabot.

A random photo from my Flickr contacts, as filtered through...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:30:39 -0400

A random photo from my Flickr contacts, as filtered through space claw. (via)

Jonathan Puckey’s Special Box Typography.

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:30:29 -0400

Jonathan Puckey’s Special Box Typography.

Bettina Schneebeli’s basil.js project, which appears to be...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:30:31 -0400

Bettina Schneebeli’s basil.js project, which appears to be augmenting each word in a text with an image found on Amazon by searching for that word. Basil.js is a scripting library, spiritually similar to Processing, for Adobe InDesign. (via)

What Are Bots?

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:21:24 -0400

nybots:

Bots are contraptions that humans have set into motion across the Internet.

Bots are engines of whimsy and chaos, who will sometimes try and convince you they can make penises bigger.

Bots are scavengers who bend and glue our cast-off word-garbage into scrapbooks, hoping we’ll be impressed.

Bots are rarely perfect, and that is what makes them human.

“Doggy is a rather difficult to read font-family rendering...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:30:33 -0400

“Doggy is a rather difficult to read font-family rendering words as dogs through the OpenType ligature feature. Depending on the length of a word the dog respectively gets longer or shorter. One letter words result in a sitting dog.” Among other fonts from Languste: Baguette, Noncept, Alefbet (“a reimagination of the Phoenician alphabet”).

Video of Mimi Yin’s Prosaic. “The thesis put forth...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:30:31 -0400

Video of Mimi Yin’s Prosaic. “The thesis put forth in Prosaic is that surprise comes not from randomness, chaos and disorder, but instead from the establishment and subsequent disruption and disintegration of a highly ordered system.”

I ♥ E-Poetry entries on poetry written in social media

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:30:31 -0400

I ♥ E-Poetry entries on poetry written in social media:

A thorough and insightful review. Includes twitter bots, parodies, microfiction, and more.

Screenshot from Times Haiku.

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:30:38 -0400

Screenshot from Times Haiku.

Cabel Sasser finds text hidden in video game ROMs.

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:30:28 -0400

Cabel Sasser finds text hidden in video game ROMs.

text-mode: A keyboard horse by Babis Cloud. It’s...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:30:33 -0400

text-mode:

A keyboard horse by Babis Cloud. It’s called hedonIsM(y) trojaner, via.

I typed “The Road Not Taken” into this Google Docs...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:30:18 -0400

I typed “The Road Not Taken” into this Google Docs demo. This is a (2x speed) screen recording of the result.