Speaking with Conviction & Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage

Typography video by Ronnie Bruce, poem Speak with Conviction by Taylor Mali  

One of the many faithful followers - I should probably say long suffering - of Issa's Untidy Hut tipped me to the above video as something I'd enjoy.

Did I ever.

It makes me almost not want to speak, ever again. Yet, it addresses so well a modern phenomenon, if not so much to its cause, that it most certainly warrants passing on. The video, called Typography, is housed at wimp.com with lots of other amazing videos. The designer of the video of the poem is Ronnie Bruce; other works by him are parked at his site at vimeo. 

The poet, Taylor Mali, is a very talented lad whom you can find out more about at his own site. 

A tip of the hat to whomever recommended this wonderful piece - if you run across this post, take a bow in the comments section.


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Perhaps, instead of never speaking again, I should take up another language, say a language spoken in a remote corner of Spain. 

Here is a little something that once again merges word and image, this time from the always amazing moving poems website: it is Little Theatre's production of Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage after the fine poem by Erin Moure.  The poem is spoken in Galacian, with text incorporated into the poem in a most un-subtitley way.  The stop motion video, directed and animated by Stephanie Dudley, is stunning. Besides being showcased on moving poems, the film has its own website.  
   
 

Click on the little arrows between the HD and Vimeo text at the bottom of the video to put it in full screen mode. You won't be sorry.


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Photo by Chris Downer

 

thin mist--
night after night
vegetable soup

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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