Steal a Poem for Me. I Mean You. I Mean Me.
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Steal I poem for me. I mean you. I mean me.
Made for Prototype Studio, under the prompt "To Endure". Something something art and life endure in the face of absurdity and suffering, something else.
All text taken from existing art works. They are (in the languages cited, click to expand):
杀死那个石家庄人 by 万能青年旅店;
鬼 by 草东没有派对;
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus;
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung by Arthur Schopenhauer;
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson;
道歌心の策 by 蜷川新右衛門親当;
大江大海一九四九 by 龍應台；
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard;
Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez;
Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche;
マザーランド by Ado;
Speak, Memory by Nabokov;
Want to Be Free by Sea Power;
Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You by Barbara Kruger
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing！
spent a good time playing around on this one. beautiful game :)
at twilight today
the cradle, back and forth
for what?
because we are darkness
no one is bleeding under the stars
Thanks for playing and sharing! The all-English version also looks and sounds beautiful... differently from the collage version! That's so interesting :)
Beautiful poem! Interesting choice to make it consistent in language!
see as a dev and a poet i love when devs make small experiences like this that end up forming these fun pocket communities :) thanks for making this and putting it out there
I too! Very glad I made this haha
Thanks for playing and sharing! Beautiful :)
This is so beautiful! A lot of interesting combinations. Thanks for playing and sharing!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing
so good -- love the layering effect of keeping all these languages (that i don't speak) in my head, and not understanding all the nuanced meanings i might be creating with words i don't know, ripped from their linguistic context. very exciting idea, executed beautifully :)
here's my poem!
Ahhhhh thank you so much for the compliments!! I was so happy to read them. Glad that you liked it! Text/language collage has been on my mind for a while since a part of me always do that daily, so I ended up pouring a lot into this project. Beautiful poem, too! It makes my day seeing art getting created out of my smol thingy :)
I am very interested by the idea of international poem.
Make one!