April 18, 2006

Slaves to Technology

Exerpt from a recent email:

"ha ok i must tell you something humorous. heidi rea has invented a new form of art. it's call T9 poetry. she simply selects words at random using the t9 function on her phone. here are some examples:

once close leapards began to creap, made still all the morning light.

another...

the moon oils accelerandos in the sloshy depths

here's one of mine...

pollen's pungent colder wiles cast shadows on each lovely landscape"

-Justin Rettger

Posted by timf at April 18, 2006 07:29 PM
Comments

ok tim, that's not an excerpt, that's the whole thing. again, misrepresenting a source :)

Posted by: Mr. Rettger at April 18, 2006 09:50 PM

No, you are mistaken. It is an excerpt because I did not include the quoted text.

Posted by: timf at April 19, 2006 12:40 AM

I wasn't sure what the rules were, but here's mine.

"Lofted nearly til dogs' yogas making enlighten lots." I thought the random appearance of yoga and enlighten in the same phrase cool.

So you just punch buttons until you get a real word and so on and so forth?

Posted by: Beth at April 19, 2006 09:20 AM

well it's a little more free than that, beth. what I do is get a noun, this noun can be at random or one I think as I'm walking down the street. then you start punching in random letters (maybe 3 or 4) and use the word it reminds you of. you'll have to ask the inventor. she knows more than i do.

Posted by: Mr. Rettger at April 19, 2006 09:40 AM

i personally don't think timf should be dabbling in any new forms of poetry until he's done a little catching up over yonder:
http://www.bensfriends.com/simplicity

and someone...please explain to me what the cow T9 word function is? i have it on my phone but never figured out what it's for.

Posted by: joy at April 19, 2006 01:43 PM

"I love technology; not as much as you, you see, but I still love technology. Always and forever..."

Posted by: Tom at April 19, 2006 03:20 PM

joy, it's a much simpler way to compose text messages. instead of having to scroll through every single letter, you simply press the key corresponding to the letter you want once then move on to the next letter, press that key once and so on. for examble: "very" would be 8379 rather then 88833777999. does that make sense? it's kind of hard to explain. consult your cell phone manual. i have a feeling you'd be good at this form of poetry.

Posted by: Mr. Rettger at April 19, 2006 05:04 PM

latest T9 poems:

Glide like a flowing-lined molten stem, blunted by loyal glades. -Eric Rea

A glow clung below listening wilted hills. -Eric Rea

Blurry black bellowing blizzards bring beckoning babbles before blue babes. -Justin Rettger

Posted by: Mr. Rettger at April 19, 2006 11:13 PM

but how does it "know" which letter you're after of the three on that button? is this some kind of Gen-Y ouija derivative?

Posted by: joy at April 19, 2006 11:46 PM

it has a word bank. it doesn't know what letter you want. it just guesses the word you're after. so if you happen to type in some letters hoping for a specific word and it gives you another then you just need to press the "next" button (on my phone it's the #0 key). For example, if you want the word "me" you punch in 63. but that's also "of", and that's the one it will give you first. just press 0 (zero) and it will give you "me". make sense?

Posted by: Mr. Rettger at April 19, 2006 11:53 PM

Hi Tim~
How are you?
I haven't talk to you for a looooooooooooooong time~ miss ya!!!!!

Posted by: Julie Yang at May 16, 2006 12:08 PM

Julie!? JULIE!!! How are you? How is the fam? Are you getting time to make many beautiful arts?

Posted by: timf at May 22, 2006 12:26 PM

TIMF- I could use some font identification help and myfonts.com/whatthefont was not of any goodness to me.

take a look at it here:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6673/1462/1600/eastaurora.jpg

help me frenchi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope.

Posted by: CORY at May 25, 2006 01:10 PM

出会い出会いデリヘル

Posted by: ggggg at June 5, 2008 11:19 PM
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