When you write, there’s usually something you want to say. Answer the good old 5W+H at least. Poetry is pretty exploratory though. When you start, you have barely a vague sense on what you’re trying to achieve. You’re conveying emotion rather than meaning. Form matters a lot as well. A lot of creative writing looks like that. [...]
Poetry is a literary form in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response. ~ Levin (1962) Poetry is simple to define – a poem is a poem because people consider it a poem. Simple. Easy to understand. Useless. When you are studying poetry in a [...]
Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation is a paper by Manurung, Ritchie and Thompson (whomever they are) published in May 2000 and so far seems to be the best starting point for my graduation thesis. There are three main parts to this story: why!? what makes it hard how it used to be done [...]
Image via Wikipedia Be advised, I am currently fighting a deathly battle with a nasty cold so the rest of this entry might feel a bit foggy and poorly phrased. You were warned. Burlesque, for those who don’t know, is a type of performance art much like striptease and other “exotic” dances, but on a [...]
Image via Wikipedia Some of you probably realise that I’m a bit of a steampunk and have been even since before I realised steampunk was what I was a fan of. Think I called it
Over the past few months, difficult to say just how many, I’ve been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica on my computer. Seems when I finally found out about this marvelous show I had a good three years of catching up to do and let me tell you something. It. Was. Worth. It! Seriously, Battlestar [...]
On Friday my lovely lass had a girls night and left me stranded without anything much to do … so I didn’t. BUT! After a while I decided to do some writing since this big rush of ideas bubbled into my head, maybe I got smart ’cause I’m about to have a tumor eat my [...]
Today I had a rather frustrating time with some algorithms that were later surprisingly easy to conquer but hey, guess I was stuck and needed a break so I decided to say FUCK YOU to the algorithm and go for a photowalk. It was rather lovely being out there on the snow although when I [...]
Last night I went to see Kabaret at MGL with the girlfriend (who desperately needs a proper blog for me to link to in such cases) and naturally, having seen the London version, I had to compare it to what I’d seen with Peaches (who also needs a blog) a bit over a year ago [...]
Recently, quite very recently, yesterday in fact, I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by dear old Oscar. Yes, how very shameful of me to have only read it now, but if it makes you feel any better I did read an excerpt once in school a few years ago. Just never quite got [...]
