The Me Bird

The Me Bird from 18bis on Vimeo.

Pablo Neruda's poem, "The Me Bird," is the Chilean writer's ode to a "bird of a single feather."

Brazilian design and graphics studio 18bis created a stunning layered animation that brings the short work to life.

Seek out Pablo Neruda's poem if you wish, but try to create a song or poem of your own inspired by the sequence of ideas you see flowing before you in this video.

 

Beyond the Box #3 ~ Music Monday

Pic by G.W. aka P.A. ~ edited in Picnik
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Beyond the Box #3 ~ Music Monday
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Imagine Monday is Music!

1. What kind of music suits the spirit of your Mondays? Explain.
2. Write song lyrics for your Mondays.
3. On a scale of 1-10, where does your Monday rank?
Describe/explain what Mondays mean to you.

Who Are You? #1 ~ The Secret You

Pic by G.W. aka P.A. ~ A moment in Dromana carpark, Mornington Peninsula
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Who Are You? #1~

Creatively explain an answer to each of the following:
1. What famous person do other people tell you that you most resemble?
2. What vegetable do you most resemble?
3. Which cartoon character do you resemble the most?
4. If your personality could be described as a season and a weather pattern, what would you choose?
5. You can cast any actor now alive to play you in a film about your life. Whom would you cast in the role?
6. Select lyrics from a song which best describe your mood right now.
7. If you could be any age again for one week, what age would you be?
8. If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
9. If you could wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else currently living, would you do so? Whom would you pick?
10. What dead person would you least want to be haunted by?

Opinion Piece #9 ~ Typical Teenager?

elitesuperhaxor — February 19, 2008 — a funny Aussie outback song about a typical teenager
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Opinion Piece #9 ~ Typical Teenager?~

Create a song of your own which reflects the typical teenager.
Are there a few identities?~

History Waves #1 ~ The Ghost and the Darkness

This film is based on a true story.
In 1896 Irishman Lt. Col. John Paterson, a construction engineer from the British Army, was sent to East Africa to build a railway trestle bridge across the Tsavo River (in today's Kenya) for the British East African Railway. (This would help to expand the empire a little more.) During the construction of the bridge, two lions would enter the workers' camp to kill. The locals name them 'The Ghost' and 'The Darkness'. It is believed that from 35 to 130 people were killed by the two lions in nine months. The claims are varied.
NOTE:
1. Lt. Col. Patterson owned the skins and skulls of the two Tsavo man-eaters. In 1924, Patterson sold them to the Field Museum in Chicago for $5,000.
2. The title of the book is 'The Man-Eaters of Tsavo', and is one of two books Colonel Patterson wrote. The second book, 'In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa' was published in 1909. The latter never became very popular, and is long out of print.
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Mix writing styles* A little history and song lyrics?
* Poem and a letter?~