In my American Literature class, I assigned a group project in which students were to create a video performance or animation of a poem we read in class or an excerpt from a play, short story, or novel. This example is from Oscar Casares’ collection of short stories Brownsville; the story is “Chango.”
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Video Animation of “Chango”
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Art, I Want You
Saturday, March 6th, 2010March 6, 2010.
Here’s a great song and video on the pull of art.
Bottoms
Friday, January 15th, 2010Friday, January 15, 2010.
Here’s an illustrated poem starring Tex.
Really – An Animated Poem
Monday, August 10th, 2009Monday, August 10, 2009.
Here’s a new poem animated below. This poem was inspired by a session I attended at the 2009 AEPL conference a couple of weeks ago.
This session was led by Burt Bradley and included some of the writing exercises he uses in a course he teaches called “Writing in the Wild.”
My intention was to write a very simple poem. And my drawings (also simple because that’s about where my drawing skills are) are meant to reflect that simplicity. I patched them together with Windows Moviemaker and recorded the poem with Audacity–both free downloads.
Here’s the text of the poem:
Really
Here we are, we’re always outside
The clouds, the sun, and the sky is outside
Inside our houses and cars and our jobs
We’re really outside
Up and down
And left and right
All around
We’re really outside
Once upon we lived under trees
In caves and huts and even tepees
No matter what we hung overhead
We were really outside
Up and down
And left and right
All around
We’re really outside
We’re always really always outside
Our windows and walls and doors are so thin
Even the skyscrapers are really quite small
Compared to outside
Up and down
And left and right
All around
We’re really outside
Laurence Musgrove
Elevated – An Animated Poem
Friday, June 19th, 2009Friday, June 19, 2009.
Here’s one of my experiments in illustrating one of my poems.