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Sing along
Sparks: Elemental | Chase | Ovation
Category: MUSICIANS
Submitted by: Laura-Doe Harris
Organisation: yOni'net services
Dah dah dah daaaah
Dah dah dah daaaah
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Posted: 11th March 2008
Sparks: Elemental | Chase | Ovation
Category: MUSICIANS
Submitted by: Laura-Doe Harris
Organisation: yOni'net services
Dah dah dah daaaah
Dah dah dah daaaah
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
Batman
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Posted: 11th March 2008
Sparked speechless.
Sparks: lamp | occupation | national trust
Category: WRITERS
Submitted by: Rita Harris
Organisation: NOA (North Oxford Association)
I’m getting frightened of words. Too many or not enough. When three words were chosen for me (four actually - but more of that later) panic set in.
I can’t get Wittgenstein’s builders out of my mind. What could their minds have made of ‘beam’, ‘block’ ‘pillar’ and ‘slab’, their total vocabulary? They couldn’t even have known that these were four words; they had no words to voice that thought? I envisage them reduced to mindlessness, perhaps even laughing manically; but that would have said much, much more than all their words put together. Is a laugh allowed?
I’m in the same situation as the builder and his assistant: by luck or fluke, I’ve been allotted four words. I didn’t ask for four but the game must have taken pity on me.
Lamp, which is a better signal than any word. How much you can say with a lamp! And how terrifying when the lamp dims and the light goes out.
Occupation, a word I view with suspicion. It doesn’t do to dwell on the many ways you can use it. A weasel word, if ever there was one. Innocent, neutral when you say that your occupation is teaching or painting or cooking school dinners. But such of lot of historical darkness is contained in the same word in other contexts. Conquest, tyranny, cruelty, suppression - though none of them are my words to be used, so can I safely leave all that political baggage unattended? It might be destroyed in a controlled explosion but I’ll have to risk it.
National Trust, not one but two words - or many. Trust and national, national and trust. Is it cheating to separate them? If I try, concepts flood in. Four words seem so much more than three.
National I think I can do without, but not trust.
Putting them together reconstructs a puzzling whole. Trust has to be absolute, complete in itself. It sits ill beside its partner, reduced by the juxtaposition and somehow demeaned. After examining the words, I’ll never see the National Trust in the same light again. That’s what words can do.
Now I have to explain that I’m losing my facility of fluent articulation to a condition called primary progressive aphasia - which is just a posh way of saying ‘losing facility of fluent articulation’. (So much for words. I wonder if anyone will get those three?)
I may get to a stage of losing speech altogether, wordless. What if all I can say eventually turns out to be ‘trust, occupation, national, lamp’? No wonder I’m frightened of words.
But this isn’t about speech. It presupposes literacy. Now we get back to poor old Wittgenstein’s builders. Presumably they couldn’t write either. But let’s hope they at least had a lamp.
Posted: 21st January 2008
Sparks: lamp | occupation | national trust
Category: WRITERS
Submitted by: Rita Harris
Organisation: NOA (North Oxford Association)
I’m getting frightened of words. Too many or not enough. When three words were chosen for me (four actually - but more of that later) panic set in.
I can’t get Wittgenstein’s builders out of my mind. What could their minds have made of ‘beam’, ‘block’ ‘pillar’ and ‘slab’, their total vocabulary? They couldn’t even have known that these were four words; they had no words to voice that thought? I envisage them reduced to mindlessness, perhaps even laughing manically; but that would have said much, much more than all their words put together. Is a laugh allowed?
I’m in the same situation as the builder and his assistant: by luck or fluke, I’ve been allotted four words. I didn’t ask for four but the game must have taken pity on me.
Lamp, which is a better signal than any word. How much you can say with a lamp! And how terrifying when the lamp dims and the light goes out.
Occupation, a word I view with suspicion. It doesn’t do to dwell on the many ways you can use it. A weasel word, if ever there was one. Innocent, neutral when you say that your occupation is teaching or painting or cooking school dinners. But such of lot of historical darkness is contained in the same word in other contexts. Conquest, tyranny, cruelty, suppression - though none of them are my words to be used, so can I safely leave all that political baggage unattended? It might be destroyed in a controlled explosion but I’ll have to risk it.
National Trust, not one but two words - or many. Trust and national, national and trust. Is it cheating to separate them? If I try, concepts flood in. Four words seem so much more than three.
National I think I can do without, but not trust.
Putting them together reconstructs a puzzling whole. Trust has to be absolute, complete in itself. It sits ill beside its partner, reduced by the juxtaposition and somehow demeaned. After examining the words, I’ll never see the National Trust in the same light again. That’s what words can do.
Now I have to explain that I’m losing my facility of fluent articulation to a condition called primary progressive aphasia - which is just a posh way of saying ‘losing facility of fluent articulation’. (So much for words. I wonder if anyone will get those three?)
I may get to a stage of losing speech altogether, wordless. What if all I can say eventually turns out to be ‘trust, occupation, national, lamp’? No wonder I’m frightened of words.
But this isn’t about speech. It presupposes literacy. Now we get back to poor old Wittgenstein’s builders. Presumably they couldn’t write either. But let’s hope they at least had a lamp.
Posted: 21st January 2008
Escargots Anchoiade
Sparks: SNAILS | ANCHOVY | CHOCOLATE
Category: COOKS
Submitted by: Janice Rivett
Email contact: jrivett66@hotmail.com
As a keen cook, I got my words from the category COOK. They were SNAILS ANCHOVY CHOCOLATE.
It didn't sound likely, but I tried it and was very happy with the result!
I prepared the snails in the usual way, and before putting them into the shells I smeared the inside of the shell with a small amount of dark chocolate and and added about a third of an anchovy fillet. No garlic, but some butter. The result was rich and decidedly different.
Posted: 31st October 2007
Sparks: SNAILS | ANCHOVY | CHOCOLATE
Category: COOKS
Submitted by: Janice Rivett
Email contact: jrivett66@hotmail.com
As a keen cook, I got my words from the category COOK. They were SNAILS ANCHOVY CHOCOLATE.
It didn't sound likely, but I tried it and was very happy with the result!
I prepared the snails in the usual way, and before putting them into the shells I smeared the inside of the shell with a small amount of dark chocolate and and added about a third of an anchovy fillet. No garlic, but some butter. The result was rich and decidedly different.
Posted: 31st October 2007
Bristle Box
Sparks: PRONG | LAYER | TRANSPARENT
Category: ARTISTS
Submitted by: Ann Sutton
Email contact: asutton@macdream.net
Telephone: 01903 883445
I sparked in the category Artists. Based on the given words: prong - layer - transparent: a 'magic' square of numbers is applied invisibly to a 6 X 6 grid of holes, and rotated once for each side of the Perspex cube. Perspex rods connecting those numbers make six layers of interweaving. All rods start off as the same length (twice the width of the box, but appear as different lengths according to the path taken inside the cube.
Posted: 25th October 2007
Sparks: PRONG | LAYER | TRANSPARENT
Category: ARTISTS
Submitted by: Ann Sutton
Email contact: asutton@macdream.net
Telephone: 01903 883445
I sparked in the category Artists. Based on the given words: prong - layer - transparent: a 'magic' square of numbers is applied invisibly to a 6 X 6 grid of holes, and rotated once for each side of the Perspex cube. Perspex rods connecting those numbers make six layers of interweaving. All rods start off as the same length (twice the width of the box, but appear as different lengths according to the path taken inside the cube.
Posted: 25th October 2007
Too Long for the Space
Sparks: LONG | RAINBOW | SHRINK
Category: DESIGNERS
Submitted by: Ann Sutton
Email contact: asutton@macdream.net
Telephone: 01903 883445
I sparked in the category "DESIGNER" and got the words: long - rainbow - shrink.
The work is based on the fact that wool shrinks more than cotton, so by using white overspun wool yarns as a ground and adding a spectrum range of cotton yarns as extra warp and weft (woven into the background at intervals) the cotton remained at original length and was forced into curves as the wool shrank in the wash.
Posted: 21st October 2007
Sparks: LONG | RAINBOW | SHRINK
Category: DESIGNERS
Submitted by: Ann Sutton
Email contact: asutton@macdream.net
Telephone: 01903 883445
I sparked in the category "DESIGNER" and got the words: long - rainbow - shrink.
The work is based on the fact that wool shrinks more than cotton, so by using white overspun wool yarns as a ground and adding a spectrum range of cotton yarns as extra warp and weft (woven into the background at intervals) the cotton remained at original length and was forced into curves as the wool shrank in the wash.
Posted: 21st October 2007
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