Thanks, Max.
These video versions aren't as smooth-running or as visually sharp as
the Flash originals were. Maybe we'll be able to get those back one day
- it would be nice.
Edward
On 27/12/2020 19:02, Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
This is great Edward! It's one of my favorite of the 13 ways in the
poem, for starters. The sound and horizontal scrolling text, with the
mirrored river's edge, captures nicely the appeal and axes of rivers.
There is an antique quality as well, in a positive sense, not unlike
the tones and formatting of consumer print photographs from the 60's
and 70's.
It's a bit strange that Flash, which was definitely a major medium for
a long time, and definitely one which I still think of as "new," is
just going away. I don't know if I can think of a similar
disappearance, but there must be some. Technology giveth and taketh
away and is never still.
An interesting metaphor I learned about just this month was
Machiavelli's comparison of politics to the flowing river of
"Fortuna," which could both be "woven" into canals for human use and
also devastate those same creations by drought or deluge. Since
Leonardo was chief partner, as engineer, with Machiavelli, as
politico, on the incredibly ambitious canal projects of the Medici, I
am currently wondering if the Mona Lisa might not be L's democratic
yet subtly patient rejoinder to his executively-oriented friend.
Flumen vestem texitur, or as Calvino took to be his motto, "festina
lente."
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*Cc:* Edward Picot <julian.les...@gmail.com>
*Subject:* [NetBehaviour] The River is Flowing
Dear all,
The River is Flowing
I’m in the process of transcribing some of my Flash animations to
video, since Flash won’t work on any browsers after the end of 2020.
This is the twelfth part of my 2007 adaptation of Wallace Stevens’
poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’.
https://youtu.be/viox0J9-S1 <https://youtu.be/viox0J9-S1w>
<https://youtu.be/viox0J9-S1w>
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