He's
fit as a fiddle
He's fit as a flea
He's 85,000 times fitter than me
He knows every muscle
Each vein and corpuscle
Is pulling TOGETHER
To gather the prize :
A shiny medallion
That dazzles the eyes
This sleek, swarthy stallion
Will bare recognise
From his podium-placing
The pain I am facing
Debasing !
I'm chasing not catching my breath
Have
I bungs in my lungs
And a float in my throat
That is guttingly cutting my chance to devote
My days to a diet of damsons and dates
And pippified pomegranates plastered on plates ?
You ARE
what you eat
And you reap what you sow
Be it gluten or wheat
It is sentenced to show
You should shake OFF the sugar
With vim and with vigour
Assault Added Salt
Make the regime de
rigeur
Just
consume shoots and fruits
(To SQUEEEEEEEZE into tracksuits)
And the juice Only Zeus May Bisto(w)
Aah,
Ambrosia
makes posier
the beautiful bod's of Olympian Gods
Athletic
Aesthetic
Pneumatic
Dramatic
Asthmatic
?
[SNIFFITY SNOFFITY SNIFF]
Only REALLY rarely
They've
such figures because they are SWIGGERS !
~
Bitter Man's Vitamins' Creation ~
This free verse was
completed as an extension
to the first three lines ("He's fit
as a fiddle, He's
fit as a flea, He's 85,000 times fitter than me,")
which was a spontaneous remark I made whilst
playing with my puppy.
The opening comment was re-contextualised
to discuss athleticism in the fully
sportingly-competitive environment of the
Olympic Games. There are references to Ambrosia
Creamed Rice and Bisto
Gravy
that'll prolly be lost on an international
audience - like the one what this is DONE
*bound* to attract).
~
Talking <TALKING HEADS> ~
At the close of 2003,
I discoveredReallusion
and
their hugely appealing .Crazy
Talk. lip-synch
animation software. Despite the facts that
the faces you could employ to adapt, at that time,
had to be contained within fairly small,
low-resolution images with output biased towards
closed-format, SQUARE,
web-based and executable
e.mail greetings rather than the much more versatile
DV-quality film that was introduced for the vastly
superior .V4.
release, I was immediately
captivated by the program's potential.
These two films show the result of my earliest
attempt. .Crazy
Talk 3.5. was yet to include
teeth and the
hardest aspect of production was selecting a
character that wouldn't seem overly disfigured
by the imposition of a crudely slit mouth.
The first example shows the entirely unmodified
result, the second has improved audio and the
benefit of bold subtitles...the latter is,
therefore, "the one to watch".
ORIGINAL
CRAZY TALK 3.5-CREATED
SQUARE ANIMATION :