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It's starting to seem like transliterations' only has one tradition more solid than selecting freaky-ass clips for our film prompts, and that's me running really late on writing these wrap-up articles. And I quite like referring to it as a tradition, rather than any failing of my own. From now on, for every day that a transliterations prompt runs late you are all to eat fruitcake, wish each other glad tidings and, if feasible, get laid. That way it's something for everyone to look forward to.
Now then! Remember these three paintings?
We asked you to translate the initial visual impression of one of these works into your own piece of literature--whether that be in the colours, the textures, the shapes, the brush techniques or anything else in the style. What you weren't allowed to do was mention the subject matter. No horses, faces or barenaked ladies. It was fascinating to see the different stories that came out of the same paintings in this prompt, from a post-apocalyptic landscape to erotic exploration to childhood memories, and before I move onto the links I want to thank sagittariusgallery, Ellceris and mclague777 for giving us such wonderful creative fodder. You rock like socks if socks wore frocks!
Below are the ten submissions we received for this prompt. Take some time to have a read...
...and give some love to the news article, if you please!
Moving on: our third photography prompt will start in the next few days!
Now then! Remember these three paintings?
We asked you to translate the initial visual impression of one of these works into your own piece of literature--whether that be in the colours, the textures, the shapes, the brush techniques or anything else in the style. What you weren't allowed to do was mention the subject matter. No horses, faces or barenaked ladies. It was fascinating to see the different stories that came out of the same paintings in this prompt, from a post-apocalyptic landscape to erotic exploration to childhood memories, and before I move onto the links I want to thank sagittariusgallery, Ellceris and mclague777 for giving us such wonderful creative fodder. You rock like socks if socks wore frocks!
Below are the ten submissions we received for this prompt. Take some time to have a read...
Rooibos TeaBreathe deep the chai haze—
Picasso's djinn,
a muse of eggshells and grandma's lace tablecloths,
cradles the tea kettle to her chest
and abandons Latin words and names—
flotsam and jetsam dribbling
irrelevant among the little red tea leaves;
the driftwood of genus and species bumping
against the shores of the South African scrublands.
She hovers orange and indigo,
a quavering flame of dreams
and drained tea dregs—
divination with a soft-spiced voice
at the bottom of the mug,
never quite gone—
a flock of Van Gogh crows
frozen in their hayfields.
soulpyreflickering
flames from a fire
burning quietly amidst
black of night; crackling with energy
and lustre glowing deeply:
a diamond in the dark.
it is a soulpyre-
mistlike spectres roam
your thoughts,
igniting like vapour;
before dimming
to kindling's embrace.
to Yellow Plumto Yellow Plum (in blue
china bowl):
afternoon's slit of sun slips
between thick curtains
& woos you to ripeness.
it chooses you
not for flecks of honey-russet
held low in your seam of shadows,
nor your symmetry & swell;
but because
you slink in shade, sink
behind green pear & clementine
& cannot hide
from each spear of light
that ricochets
through--
even now
nested warm
against these lips
even now:
a tea-stain stone
hugging close
the trashbin floor.
...and give some love to the news article, if you please!
Moving on: our third photography prompt will start in the next few days!
Prompt 14: The Conclusion!
In the best traditions of transliterations, we’re a little late with the wrapping up article. We’d hate to disappoint you by being on time. (I'm not as beautifully striped as the usual wrapper-upper but I'll do my best to wrap up regardless. zebrazebrazebra (https://www.deviantart.com/zebrazebrazebra) will be back at the helm soon.)
It was a little over a month ago that we showed you twelve pictures a little like the ones below. We asked you to pick two and translate the space between them.
So you did.
We received a veritable smorgasbord of submissions (seven, specifically). Please take the time to read them:
Please also give some love to the photographers of the pi
Prompt 12: The Conclusion!
Late, fail, suck, yes. Moving on.
A little over a month ago we asked you to find one or more things in the above video which you'd never noticed as a child, or never noticed on your first watching, or which you had noticed but wished you hadn't, because they involved octopus boob. Then we asked you to take those elements and transform them into something of your own. We received ten submissions in total, with imagery ranging from voices to shells to pens and keys and the ever-present presence of the ocean. More interesting, though, was the consistently strong focus on the emotional content of the excerpt rather than the visual.
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Prompt 12: The Beginning!
:new: There's just ONE DAY LEFT to enter this prompt. Come on, kids! It can't take this long to get a donkey off!
The deadline for this prompt is being extended to June 20th, because we've only had four entries and, by extension, you all suck donkey balls. Hop to it!
There's just TEN DAYS LEFT to enter this prompt! Grit your teeth, sweep your hair aside and sign away your underwater existence. And while you're at it, write something for transliterations (https://www.deviantart.com/transliterations). Be part of our world!
It's been over two months since the results for the Modernising Myths Contest were announced, when I promised the next prompt would be up "very soon". The words
Prompt 11: The Conclusion!
My apologies once more for the delay in closing off this prompt; those of you who have read my journal know what's being going on, and I hope you can all forgive me. But I can never stay away from here for long, not while I have hands to type and eyes to read and a brain to think up creative torments, so here we are!
Three weeks or so ago we asked you to choose an instrument and translate its timbre into a piece of literature. What do we mean by timbre? It's the unique quality that makes an instrument sound like itself and not like something else--the rasp and swing of a violin, the hollow centre of a clarinet and the badass jangle of an ele
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I think I'll think I'll think I'll participate in the next exercise. These seem interesting. I need excuses to write.