Comments on: Speechless, the video

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:11:56 +0000

In reply to renkath. Oh, I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for stopping by, Ren.

By: renkath

renkath — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:11:05 +0000

I think this is a great example of video working with the text to create something greater than both “poems”!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:53:56 +0000

In reply to elizabeth. Thanks! I liked that leaf too, and wish I hadn't been so quick to remove it. But I felt this was the sort of idea that's best done in one take.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:52:12 +0000

In reply to John Miedema. Maybe. My dad the peace scholar said it made him guffaw.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:50:58 +0000

In reply to Therese Broderick. Oh yes. In fact, I think they provide the "scrabble" in "hardscrabble." Interesting association.

By: Therese Broderick

Therese Broderick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:27:19 +0000

For me, the word “Scrabble” resonates with the claw-scratching of “scrabble.” Not being a farmer, I can’t say for sure — do chickens “scrabble” the ground for food?

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:33:32 +0000

Dave, I love this. Right down to the yellow leaf that wanted to be a punctuation mark.

By: John Miedema

John Miedema — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:29:12 +0000

Nice. Very Quaker. Maybe they get together to play/worship like this.

By: leslee

leslee — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:30:38 +0000

Cool!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:15:25 +0000

In reply to Michelle Johnson. Thanks, Michelle. I didn't think of the possible tile-chopping block association. But my philosophy with these kinds of things is to bring two fairly dissimilar sets of images into conjunction, and hope that the result will end up being suggestive as you found this one to be, and not just a confusing mish-mash. :)