[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_feature_box title=”30 days of Meaning∞Making” title_color=”” text_color=”” graphic=”icon” graphic_size=”60px” graphic_shape=”circle” graphic_color=”#ffffff” graphic_bg_color=”#733047″ align_h=”center” align_v=”top” side_graphic_spacing=”20px” max_width=”none” graphic_icon=”code”]30 experiments in 30 days! Using coding and poetry to investigate the intersections of emerging technologies and ancient pedagogies; aimed at creating the tools that are most effective in understanding and communicating our ideas.[/x_feature_box][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_custom_headline level=”h3″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center”](re)Constructing Poetry[/x_custom_headline][x_line style=”border-top-color: #733047;border-top-width: 10px;”][cs_text]In which we use a Python script to construct a poem from 3 source texts, and then use javascript to make the poem (re)Creatable.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” class=”cs-ta-center” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column bg_color=”#733047″ fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”http://fanbros.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Octavia_Butler-02.jpg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbPic”][x_custom_headline level=”h4″ looks_like=”h4″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center” style=”color: #ffffff;”]Octavia Butler[/x_custom_headline][cs_text class=”cs-ta-center dsbText”]Earthseed passages from “Parable of the Sowers.”[/cs_text][x_button type=”flat” shape=”rounded” size=”global” block=”true” circle=”false” icon_only=”false” href=”www.danielsilber-baker.com/poetryReConstruction/earthseed.txt” title=”” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbButton”][x_icon type=”book” class=”mvn mln mrs”]See Text[/x_button][/cs_column][cs_column bg_color=”#733047″ fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”http://streetyoga.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/hafiz.jpeg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbPic”][x_custom_headline level=”h4″ looks_like=”h4″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center” style=”color: #ffffff;”]Hafiz[/x_custom_headline][cs_text class=”cs-ta-center dsbText”]A collection of his pieces from “The Gift.”[/cs_text][x_button type=”flat” size=”global” block=”true” circle=”false” icon_only=”false” href=”/danielsilber-baker.com/poetryReConstruction/hafiz.txt” title=”” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbButton”][x_icon type=”book” class=”mvn mln mrs”]See Text[/x_button][/cs_column][cs_column bg_color=”#733047″ fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Video/150220/a_flashback_malcolm_150219.jpg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbPic”][x_custom_headline level=”h4″ looks_like=”h4″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center” style=”color: #ffffff;”]Malcolm X[/x_custom_headline][cs_text class=”cs-ta-center dsbText”]The Ballot or the Bullet text[/cs_text][x_button type=”flat” size=”global” block=”true” circle=”false” icon_only=”false” href=”/danielsilber-baker.com/poetryReConstruction/malcolmX.txt” title=”” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”dsbButton”][x_icon type=”book” class=”mvn mln mrs”]See Text[/x_button][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_custom_headline level=”h3″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center”]Our python script runs through the source text, and outputs a poem made up of lines from all three texts as one poem[/x_custom_headline][x_line style=”border-top-color: #733047;border-top-width: 5px;”][x_blockquote cite=”” type=”left” class=”dsBlockquote”]The intelligent and the brave
Open every closet in the future and evict
All the mind’s ghosts who have the bad habit
Of barfing everywhere
God is Infinite Potential:
God is Change
Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics
For Knowing Him
For they are all just frozen spring buds
Far
So far from Summer’s Divine Gold
Get some fresh air try to smile
You ache with loneliness one night
So much you weep
And I say
Here’s a rope
Tie it around me
Hafiz
Will be your companion
For life
Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics
For Knowing Him
For they are all just frozen spring buds
Far
So far from Summer’s Divine Gold
DROPPING KEYS
The small man Builds cages for everyone He Knows
God is Power
Without
persistence what remains is
an enthusiasm of the moment
It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure
That is your Real body-called Truth
nature’s non-violent army
capitalist asian brothers
black panther russia
program asia
group outlines can’t
transient causes human rights
forty acres human rights
black community religious services
germans atlanta
peer group expand
true history human-rights tree
racist government black nationalism involves
nations-supervised civil rights
prudence political action
white racist government social circle[/x_blockquote][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_custom_headline level=”h4″ looks_like=”h4″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center”]The Language (re)Creation[/x_custom_headline][x_line style=”border-top-color: #733047;border-top-width: 10px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-center”]But it feels important to me to push it a little further, for all of the reasons illustrated in my langaugeRecreation web page, but also because it leaves a funny taste in my mouth to let the computer get the last word in the poetic process. So instead of just leaving the poem as regular text, for our (re)Constructed Poetry Experiment, I used javascript, specifically a library called Blast.js, to input our text string from the python script, and with a little javascripting Blast.js will auto-magically assign each word (we could use character or line delineations as well) a class of “draggable,” which using jQuery makes all the text elements individually movable, so that the poem is not just constructed, but (re)Constructed, and the “viewer,” becomes a re-creator by moving the word elements around to create any poem or poems they want![/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_custom_headline level=”h4″ looks_like=”h4″ accent=”false” class=”cs-ta-center”](re)Constructed Poetry[/x_custom_headline][x_line style=”border-top-color: #733047;border-top-width: 10px;”][cs_text]You can test it out right here, or click below to see it on its own page
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