thanks--Susan--it occurs to me that video games remind us how poetry too must embrace/exploit/explore point of view--it's what pop forms like games give: a handle to navigate the world... poetry ought to as well...
I am 72. I will be frank. I found this difficult to watch. I get the minecraft allusions, the pop culture references and the clear demonstration of a culture destroying itself. Is it my age? Maybe. But then what has been lost may not be recoverable, if this piece is meant to show the way.
Thanks for the comment, Ann, and thanks for reading Talk to Me in Long Lines. Obviously, not every piece of art is to everyone’s taste. I’m not sure I get what you mean by “But then what has been lost may not be recoverable, if this piece is meant to show the way.”
This piece is not claiming to recover what has been lost, but rather it is showing us that even amidst the loss, we can (and some of us do) build things. We can’t really recover what’s been lost b/c once something is gone it is gone (even objects “recovered” in an archeological dig are changed, they are not the same as they once were), but we can keep trying to do the good work.
This is so striking. And for me, different. I am so taken by it. The artistic vision to See This—my kids do Minecraft too— and then Make This— I admire it, and the open doors and open questions this cinepoem leaves us all with!!
"What is pop? Easy. Pop is saying something deep in a stupid way. (To say something stupid in a deep way, of course, is to be an academic.)"
Checks out!
thanks for attending my TED talk :)
haha, yes!
I admire and enjoy this montage of verse and music! Such an interesting point of view about a video game.
thanks--Susan--it occurs to me that video games remind us how poetry too must embrace/exploit/explore point of view--it's what pop forms like games give: a handle to navigate the world... poetry ought to as well...
I also like the juxtaposition of metered and rhymed poetry about the pop art of video games.
children, it turns out, are also in search of forms that will hold….
Incredible.
Thanks to Mary for building this space
Thank you for being a part of it!
Fabulous. Cheers from here.
Thank you, Alfred! I admire your work. Means a lot.
I am 72. I will be frank. I found this difficult to watch. I get the minecraft allusions, the pop culture references and the clear demonstration of a culture destroying itself. Is it my age? Maybe. But then what has been lost may not be recoverable, if this piece is meant to show the way.
Thanks for the comment, Ann, and thanks for reading Talk to Me in Long Lines. Obviously, not every piece of art is to everyone’s taste. I’m not sure I get what you mean by “But then what has been lost may not be recoverable, if this piece is meant to show the way.”
This piece is not claiming to recover what has been lost, but rather it is showing us that even amidst the loss, we can (and some of us do) build things. We can’t really recover what’s been lost b/c once something is gone it is gone (even objects “recovered” in an archeological dig are changed, they are not the same as they once were), but we can keep trying to do the good work.
Not to be difficult but….
https://open.substack.com/pub/amauteur/p/im-the-least-difficult-of-men-all?r=2katg6&utm_medium=ios
This is so striking. And for me, different. I am so taken by it. The artistic vision to See This—my kids do Minecraft too— and then Make This— I admire it, and the open doors and open questions this cinepoem leaves us all with!!
Thanks Carla--it turns out, contra the fresh prince, parents do understand :)