Mundane Mo(u)rning with the Dhoop Dope
This is my third .Flash
MX. animation. It was
created in .2004.,
as an adaptation of some
scribblings dating from .2pm
on April 16th 1998..
The original 800x600 pixels,
995k
<FULL 'n' "FUN"-Sized Loopily-Loopin'
Flash>
is accessible, externally, via the text and
picture links immediately below :
Mundane
Mo(u)rning with the Dhoop Dope
(An Animated Anti-Poetry Poem)
Mundane Mo(u)rning with the Dhoop Dope (link
to FLASH)
~ Monday 12 July 2004 ~
Unlike the avi screen-capture that I used
as a
source for the embedded High Quality YouTube
stream, the Flash
original is not marred by
the inability to completely cope with and
correctly render animated gifs that have
.BLACK BACKGROUNDS..
Nevertheless, the YouTube version makes
viewing (and listening) more plausible (as
its playback's welcomely pauseable).
I will
detail the <missing graphic> and explain
the (bad) joke (it blanks out blinks making
"forty winks" faulty winks) in the breakdown.
The Words - Penned April 16th 1998 (A Thursday)
Ev'ry
single Monday morning
I can't hide my weary yawning
Poetry is really boring
Most of it just has me snoring
The trouble
is that Teacher thinks
Well, Teacher SAYS that "forty winks"
Is "...not appropriate behaviour for
[her] classroom
and [I]
should learn to control my baser instinc's,"
But that's O.K. - 'cause Teacher STINKS !
~ THE <CHALK & TALK> BREAKDOWN ~
EV'RY single
This is the same image of a blackboard
as
that which appeared in my second
.Flash
MX.-created eGreeting .
It isn't black
(I can reveal, like teal),
it
is green
(which may give
grounds for you
supposing it to be potentially "environmentally
friendly" - even in environs
as mentally
UNfriendly
as those common to
(too common) schools.
A throw-back
to dazed days of "Chalk and Talk",
it would not have to be <plugged
in> (by/...)
the (not necessarily that "up-front") one
(,)
up front (,) who, invariably, could probably
do with being a tadge more <switched
on>.
It is not the
only board to feature
in this (not
-a-Feature-) "film" -
the second is the teacher
(known herein as "Teacher")'s
mortarboard,
the third is the bored of the too oft'-ignored,
petulant pupil, the couplet-ing complainer.
In the still
above (if it's "still above" and you
haven't done an Oedipus to yourself), you can
see most of the abbreviated word "EV'RY" (short
for "EVERY") written by an invisible hand with
a (risible ?) visible stalk of chalk, rested as the
stalk of "Y".
Hmm..... I like
the construction : "...rested
as
the stalk of Y,".
For
the <record>, the hollow black circle is
(not the void left where the contrite, "complex",
Colonus colonist grimly gouged both his cornea
and its cut-out container but) a single of the
(eye-popping-out-erly) poptastic seven inch
vinyl variety. Not a picture
disc but a picture
of a disc, it forms a rebus...
...if not "ĦArriba!"s...
...unless it is Pat
Boone's sixties
SINGLE :
Streamed
by Last.FM
Just a little scratch
The "needle"
on the record (audibly) provides
"just a little <scratch>". Is it academic that
this hyper(text)dermic could end
the endemic
epidemic that <<don't delight us>> as :
<< SCHOOLITIS >> ?
Monday morning
The unHappy
Mondays are sequentially
rung round in red
(these are not tainted,
sainted latter
(what's the matter ?) day
Red Letter Day Red
Rings of Death but the
read wrings of Mundane Brain Death).
I c'
For the "I
c'" sound in "I can't
hide..." : a
black and white snapshot of Mr.
David
Icke.
can't
For the "can't"
sound in "I can't hide..."
: a
monochrome Mr.
Immanuel
Kant.
I could've used solely "I. Kant" and excised
David.
I didn't want to.
I didn't need to.
To ask viewers to truncate "Immanuel" to
"I", within a second, supposing that they had
recognised the philosopher's portrait in the first
place, is unrealistic of me.
Fancy.
The cant
of this "Kant", like the
Cant of
"Brian
Cant canters
to Canterbury",
relies on
a (typically northern)
short-form pronunciation
of "can't" that is at odds with the southern
standard English "caRn't" evident in the audio.
hide
For the "hide"
sound in "I can't hide..."
:
Mr.Hyde, unbidden, becomes unhidden
- he
appears and appears (with ape ears ?) to be
more of a Simian
Simeon style of shape-shifter
than the reptilian
rapscallions David
dislIc(k)es.
This Edward Hyde is the character as played
by Fredric
March in the 1931
film adaptation
of Robert
Louis Stevenson's short story, "The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", a tale
that could have been entirely inspired by the
phrase : "demon drink" and that can be
obtained from Project Gutenberg here.
POETRY
Not (breaking (with tradition) (or)) the
fourth wall or (painting) the
Forth Bridge,
this is the 4th board,
a board rubber to
wipe the slate clean (and the smiles from
our faces).
really
From the "o"
in "Poetry",
an "o" that owes
more to odes
than we (wee) mere minnows,
the record retreats and the world is whirled.
boring
This rebus for "boring"
shows a hairy hog,
pig-headed enough to have not turned down
the volume of his <boar
ringtone>.
Such boorishness
may be precisely the sort
of omission deemed as "not appropriate" in
a "classroom"'s mental environ.
ZZZ
These (Well Re(a)d)
Dancing Zeds represent
the "Zzz" that is the best-known textual
signifier of a snore. The trios' flighty feet are
positioned at the foot of a wooden staircase
with a cut-out map of the English county of
Bedfordshire at the top of that elevation.
This is a (hop, skip, jump and a) nod to
the phrase :
"Up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire,"
There is a Mortarboard resting on its capital
while it can (aren't we all ?)
Teacher thinks
This is a simple "Thought Bubble" made
from a dingbat
(and by one) (Hey ! <Stop
me and buy one !>) with the extrusion
function of .Xara
3D..
Emanating (who is Emma Nate ?) from
the now-landed
(it wishes) Mortarboard
it makes that Mortarboard a sort o' thought
er board and illustrates "Teacher thinks".
Teacher SAYS
Made identically to partner the "Thought
Bubble",
this is a "Speech
Bubble" emphasising "Teacher
SAYS". In the fully-functional .Flash.
version, the
black area is soon populated by multiple over-lapping instances of the
following animated gif arriving
at a total of
"forty winks" these on-the-blink blinks are
blanks as unfortunate "faulty winks" in the
adapted avi screen capture streamed from
YouTube.
Rumour has it, the Mortarboard finds its
rightful home(-roomer)
:
"...is not appropriate behaviour for her classroom..."
Here we introduce "Teacher" (the teacher)
(not "Captain, My Captain").
This (buttoned-up) model (is she moonlighting
for a cardigan catalogue ?) is obviously a gift
item that is intended to .$£ll.
and, as such, the
(mouldy ?) moulding's holdings are an apple
(the folkloric receipt of a favoured instructor)
and a bell ; she has no cane to restrain those
who would rebel.
Joss Sticks
Buxom and bespectacled, she sticks,
instead, to joss
sticks
Joss Sticks 2
and may use incense to insense...
... which has GOTTA be stinky...
A OK
...yet nothing to be sneezed at if she gets
you an "A" and proves all's "A O.K." ...
...and so : "Hooray !"
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...make minority
interest vid's (with indecipherable titles)
and then twist them back upon themselves a la :
Can't Hide : Hyde/Kant
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by being a "Div" about <Div>
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