An attempt to write a sonnet using Keynote (rather like Powerpoint). Converting to movie format whilst retaining the effects is something of a problem, though I'm sure there ways around that if I take the time to look and experiment. Timing is also difficult which is why I added 'subtitles' to this version. I'm just playing around, but it is interesting trying to use a traditional form in this way. I don't feel full rhyme works at all it, seems clumsy and archaic, but perhaps half rhyme and eye rhyme might have their place. Colour, movement and form take on much more importance and allow expression that the words alone cannot communicate.
I surprised myself the other day by finding myself wishing my SEA history that I'm reading was in digital form rather than print. I felt it would be so much easier to read that way.
These changes creep up on us and I suppose it was during the four years at SOAS when most of my reading and research was through online journals and archives that I accustomed myself to reading on my laptop.
I also wrote a rhyming couplet, in English, and transcribed into Jawi. Probably very bad Jawi. That turned out to be harder than I thought, as I have never had to write Jawi before, only transcribe and translate it.
I wanted to use the computer but so far, even though I have a font, I have not been able to find out how to write from right to left. Again I'm sure there is a way around this even if it means writing a script for it myself.
The Jubilee celebrations seem to have passed West Brampton by. No flags, no bunting, no portraits of the Queen anywhere in sight.
Not because this place is a hotbed of republicanism but, I suspect, more because it is a tepid bed of apathy and depression.
So I'd better do my bit. This ant cries:-
God save the Queen!
And may God send several plagues down on all the rest of them.
(Except the dear little corgis - may they get mange -, and the horses and the royal collection of endangered rodents, of course.)
I surprised myself the other day by finding myself wishing my SEA history that I'm reading was in digital form rather than print. I felt it would be so much easier to read that way.
These changes creep up on us and I suppose it was during the four years at SOAS when most of my reading and research was through online journals and archives that I accustomed myself to reading on my laptop.
I also wrote a rhyming couplet, in English, and transcribed into Jawi. Probably very bad Jawi. That turned out to be harder than I thought, as I have never had to write Jawi before, only transcribe and translate it.
I wanted to use the computer but so far, even though I have a font, I have not been able to find out how to write from right to left. Again I'm sure there is a way around this even if it means writing a script for it myself.
The Jubilee celebrations seem to have passed West Brampton by. No flags, no bunting, no portraits of the Queen anywhere in sight.
Not because this place is a hotbed of republicanism but, I suspect, more because it is a tepid bed of apathy and depression.
So I'd better do my bit. This ant cries:-
God save the Queen!
And may God send several plagues down on all the rest of them.
(Except the dear little corgis - may they get mange -, and the horses and the royal collection of endangered rodents, of course.)