what chance for the characters cloning clouds
at the codecs concrete conference?
and if copulation with a cow, paid for by cowboy credit
makes cyberbaby, who cries for dada daddy?

such a dangerous world of decay and digital debris
only Dirac and the doppelganger dragons from Dresden
laying dynamic Earth eggs
are electronic with emotion exploding

‘oh inevitable eye eye!’ says candy fair
falling for the piano film crew
‘fine print’ replies fritz through his frogs frost fume
‘gimme the gothic graffiti gun, i ice imaginary media’
and so stamps immigrant ink on kung fu Kurt

leonardo with his line dancing lizards in london
is longing for love
but Madeleine and Mark mashup max
under the mondrian money moon
and Mr Jones plays musicals for the mutant Muybridge

narrative on the new screen in the northern hemisphere
lights numbers for Orpheus in his outerspace outhouse
so he plots permutations to pilfer pixelpost planets
before plumbing the poetry of his politics primer

all quiet on the railway, Ralph the reptile robot
ruins runran, saying scratch screw scriptorium!
and seagulls semaphore semiotics for shadow sheep
despite the shenanigans of spaceman and spacewoman
who spam splash splatter the spoken word spook

sshh!

terror text things touch trash
in the underground universe of election variations
and the vendor of verse sells wallpaper
with words x and y

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from the tag cloud 8 March 2009

Tailspin – a story to explore

by Christine Wilks

An old man’s Tinnitus and partial deafness is a source of friction between him and his family yet he stubbornly refuses to contemplate treatment or hearing aids. His adult daughter, with two girls of her own, has always been hurt and mystified by his angry reactions. But the key to his behaviour lies deep in the past.

Created in Flash, Tailspin is a multi-layered, animated fiction, in which sound plays a significant role. Although non-linear, the narrative is constructed as a series of regions for the reader to travel around and through. So there is a loose itinerary and a particular destination to reach. The story takes place over the span of one family meal-time but the past is ever present. To read Tailspin takes about 15 mins.

Cutting through memories, pinning down facts, stitching fabrications, unpicking the past – an interactive, animated memoir, created in Flash, exploring aspects of my relationship with my dressmaking mother.

Life’s mysteries are rarely uncovered by a logical, linear process of deduction. You arrive at answers, ideas, suspicions, intuitions… haphazardly, in fragments. Over time you build the picture, piece by piece, shuffling and rearranging, until you start to see a pattern emerging. Fitting the Pattern attempts to replicate this experience, hence it’s a memoir in pieces for you to explore…

I gave a live performance of this piece last month at the Creative Writing and New Media MA showcase at the IOCT Salon at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. That was fun!