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Me, the Movies and Poetry

On several of my blogs and my poetry website, I use AI to create unique and often pretty complex images. Based on what the AI knows about me from previous queries, I asked it to create an image illustrating me and my relationship to movies. You can see the result above. The posters for The Graduate and Citizen Kane track (though it flubbed on the people’s names for the movie posters). The French cinema referenced also makes sense, along with a bit of film production.

On my poetry site, I also asked the AI how it sees me in relation to poetry.

In that image, the AI included quotes by Seymour Papert, Robert Frost, and W. H. Auden. I suppose I must have searched for them at some point. Auden and Frost are poets, but Papert is someone I learned about in my teaching and technology life. Are they at all connected?

They all believed, in different ways, that learning and understanding come through active engagement with experience rather than passive consumption of facts. I would say that they all preferred discovery over instruction.

The lines it used (not all are credited as quotes) are good ones.

A poem doesn’t have to rhyme. It just has to be true.

Poetry starts with attention and finishes with understanding.

The job of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. – Seymour Papert

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of injustice, a homesickness, a lovesickness. – Robert Frost

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. – W.H. Auden

I’m not sure where it gets some of the other words used in the image, but I do agree that you should look for a poem in the ordinary. That was very much a part of my poetry Site’s Ronka project of poems. I do find poems in the morning light, conversations, an unanswered question, the news, or a line in a song.

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The story of how I developed my contract with myself and its importance to me. Though it isn't easy to do, I recommend you develop your own.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2023/12/my-contract

#LifeLessons #contracts #visualizations

Released a new 📦 https://github.com/AnandPilania/chartforge — modular, 0-dependency, framework agnostic, SVG charting library that supports bar, line, donut, pie, heatmap, cross hair, stacked, scatter, funnel etc charts and can be use in CLI mode also.

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I just published my newest project that visualizes #orgdown (#Emacs #orgmode syntax) files in a web browser:

https://codeberg.org/publicvoit/orgheadingnetwork

Similar functionality is included in all sorts of tools like #logseq or #obsidian. I personally haven't found a spot for it in my daily workflows but with that project, I may decide to play around with such visualizations any time.

Have fun

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