A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-poetic-experiment-walt-whitman-interpreted-by-three-animators-justin-moore Take a journey through Walt Whitman's poem 'A Noiseless Patient Spider'...
========== As an experiment, we gave recordings of the same Walt
Whitman poem to 3 different animators. Each interpreted the text with no knowledge of what
the others were creating Here's the result. "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
by Walt Whitman Interpretation #1 by Jeremiah Dickey,
Medium: Paint on Glass "A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory
it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant
vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament,
filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them,
ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached,
in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,
seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bri...