really, really good.
SCRAPPBLE!
Tumblr blog / game where you try to create the highest scoring word with app icons.
The Rules:
Also:
entries must be posted on twitter with #scrappble hashtag!
Put together by animator David O’Reilly.
View all the entries at the Scrappble Tumblr blog here
10th January 2012
Reblogged From prostheticknowledge
Notes: 48
or some reason there needs to be a dinner party at a long table that employs these. I don’t know why either.
Great resource. More fun examples:
* Using phrases relating to one subject or idea, write about another, pushing metaphor and simile as far as you can. For example, use science terms to write about childhood or philosophic language to describe a shirt.
* Attempt tape recorder work, that is, recording without a text, perhaps at specific times.
* Write what cannot be written; for example, compose an index.
* Consider word and letter as forms-the concretistic distortion of a text, a mutiplicity of o’s or ea’s, or a pleasing visual arrangement: “the mill pond of chill doubt.”
* Write a poem that reflects another poem, as in a mirror.
* Choose a subject you would like to write “about.” Then attempt to write a piece that absolutely avoids any relationship to that subject. Get someone to grade you.
(Excerpts From “Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments”)
Nameless characters(!) in an HBO(!) movie based on a play by Corman McCarthy(!) starring Samuel L Jackson (!) and Tommy Lee Jones(!) with all of the action taking place in one room(!)
Could we fit more key words(!) into this description? I think not!
Upcoming HBO movie based on a play called The Sunset Limited
The play involves only two nameless characters, designated “White” and “Black”, their respective skin colors. Offstage, just before the play begins, Black saves White from throwing himself in front of a train, the Sunset Limited. All of the action takes place in Black’s spare apartment in urban New York, where the characters go (at the behest of Black) after their encounter on the platform. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a professor. They debate the meaning of human suffering, the existence of God, and the propriety of White’s attempted suicide.
NPR - Children’s play has becomes increasingly scripted, limiting their ability or tendency towards improvised, imaginative play. This then effects their development of executive functions including their ability to self-regulate. “Kids with good self-regulation are able to control their emotions and behavior, resist impulses, and exert self-control and discipline.”
Played 10 times.how fun is this?
Victor Borge on his invented “Inflationary Language,” where he embeds incremented numbers in words:
See, we have hidden numbers in the words like “wonderful,” “before,” “create,” “tenderly.” All these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occassion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared. For instance “wonderful” would be “two-derful.” Before would be Be-five. Create, cre-nine. Tenderly should be eleven-derly. A Leiutenant would be a Leiut-eleven-ant. A sentence like, “I ate a tenderloin with my fork” would be “I nined an elevenderloin with my five-k.” And so on and so fifth.It’s better to listen and watch while reading.
