| Hindsight (collab with DavidRandallCurtis & ElviraDark6) - 401 sec
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Thank you to David and Elvira for inviting me to edit this piece for them, it was truly a privilege =)
This poem is dedicated by David to Jaleh Burns.
HINDSIGHT
She says it's good to see me again.
Her hair, make up and clothes
are black upon black upon black;
dark shadows
draped over pale skin.
She walks to an empty space
in front of the band.
Her dance is a sensual
catharsis
that turns every casual glance
across the dimly lit room
into an act of voyeurism.
She says she needs to talk.
Her stories
make me wince
but draw me deeper
into her perpetual night.
Howling under the moon
(it's her manic phase)
she spills her wine.
Her laughter is real and hard.
Her smile more seductive
than the Heavens above us.
She's still enjoying the ride,
still searching for her limits
and her parents are still waiting
by the front door
fuming.
This will be how I remember her.
Before she carved lines into her face,
laid tracks on her arms
and got all the tattoos
she'd later regret.
Before her parents
finally gave up
and went back to bed.
(David Randall Curtis)
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: hindsight poem poetry spoken word original music goth def jam collaboration davidrandallcurtis elviradark6 theravenofpoe jaleh burns
 | | The Joys of YouTube Partnership - 142 sec
Disclaimer: I love YouTube and the incredible community it has created =) I also think the YouTube Partnership program is an excellent idea. I do however think the benefits of it are currently not desirable enough to outweigh the distraction of advertising beside videos. This video is purely for comedic entertainment and not at all intended to do anything but amuse. I have not applied for YouTube partnership and don't intend to unless its nature changes a bit =)
Thank you for reading this ;)
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
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| | Vlog: Of Playtime, Pen Knives and Peach Pits - 374 sec
A vlog about childhood games, toys, creativity and the imagination.
The book mentioned is "How to do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself" by Robert Paul Smith, illustrated by his wife Elinor Goulding Smith, and published in 1958.
Website on peach pit carving: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/peachpits/index.htm
Website describing Mumbly Peg Pen-knife game with pictures and instructions: http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/games/beard/mumbly_peg.htm
Copyright-free Music: http://www.incompetech.com
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: childhood children kids game games toy toys creativity imagination idea playtime play peach pit carving pen knife
| | Maybe Not...A Film Poem - 266 sec
An experimental film poem.
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: short film poem poetry experimental freedom art expression hope mind thought dream idea space shuttle discovery nasa
| | Vlog: Animal Intelligence and Behaviour - 556 sec
What sets humans apart from other animals?
A impromptu vlog on animal intelligence and behaviour.
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: animal intelligence behaviour science environment chimpanzee primate ape monkey squid raven bird experiment extinct
| | The Chaos of English Pronunciation - 440 sec
A reading of an adapted version of Gerard Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos" (1922).
Dearest creature in Creation,
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
It will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye your dress you'll tear,
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew
it! Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, Lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain,
(Mind the latter, how it's written);
Made has not the sound of bade;
Say - said, pay - paid, laid, but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak,
Previous, precious, fuschia, via;
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,
Cloven, oven; how and low;
Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles;
Exiles, similes, reviles;
Wholly, holly; signal, signing;
Thames, examining, combining;
Scholar, vicar and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.
From "desire" desirable - admirable from "admire";
Lumber, plumber; bier, but brier;
Chatham, brougham; renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, but gone and tone,
One, anernone; Balmoral;
Kitchen, lichen; laundry,. laurel,
Gertrude, German; wind and mind;
Scene, Melpomene; mankind;
Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.
Billet does not sound like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should or would.
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which is said to rime with "khaki".
Viscous, viscount; load and broad;
Froward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's O.K.,
When you say correctly:: croquet;
Rounded, wounded; grieve and sieve;
Friend and fiend; alive and live;
Liberty, library; heave and heaven;
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed;
People, leopard; towed, but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover,
Leeches, breeches; wise, precise;
Chalice, but police and lice.'
Camel, constable, unstable;
Principle, disciple; label;
Portal, penal and canal;
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.
Suit, suite, ruin; circuit, conduit
Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it".
But it is not hard to tell,
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.
Muscle, muscular; gaol; iron;
Timber, climber, bullion, lion;
Worm and storm; chaise, chaos, chair;
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Ivy, privy; famous. Clamour
And enamour rime with "hammer".
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Desert, but dessert, address.
Golf, wolf; countenance; lieutenants
Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants.
River, rival; tomb, bomb, comb;
Doll and roll and some and home,
Stranger does not rime with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Soul, but foul and gaunt, but aunt;
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and, grant.
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then: singer, ginger, linger.
Roal, zoal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age.
Query does not rime with "very",
Nor does fury sound like' bury'
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, job, blossom, bosom, oath.
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual,
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height;
Put, nut, granite and unite.
Reefer does not rime with "deafer",
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George; ate, late;
Hint, pint; senate, but sedate;
Scenic, Arabic, pacific;
Science, conscience, scientific.
Tour, but our and succour, four;
Gas, alas, and Arkansas!
Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria;
Couth, south, southern; cleanse and clean;
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion.
Sally with ally; yea,,ye,
Eye,I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess - it is not safe:
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf!
Heron, granary, canary,
Crevice and device, and eyrie.
Face, but preface, but efface,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass;
Large, but target, gin, give, verging;
Ought, out joust and scour, but scourging.
Far, but earn; and wear and bear
Do not rime with "here", but "ore".
Seven is right, but so is even;
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen;
Monkey, donkey; clerk and jerk;
Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and work.
Original version of the poem can be found here: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Royalty Free Music is "Fairy Tale Waltz" by Kevin MacLeod.
http://www.incompetech.com
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: english language pronunciation pronounce chaos learning learn speak listen spoken word poem poetry gerald nolst trenite
| | Story Time: Improvised - 600 sec
© TheRavenOfPoe 2008
An improvised fairy tale by TheRavenOfPoe - a storytelling exercise in response to AericWinter's Story Time competition.
http://www.youtube.com/aericwinter
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6RsIhglvo
Royalty Free Music "The Chamber" by Kevin MacLeod
http://www.incompetech.com
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: aericwinter story telling fairy tale improv improvise improvisation theravenofpoe
| | Zungenbrecher/Tongue-Twisters - 352 sec
A response to Miss V's German tongue-twister video.
http://www.youtube.com/user/missverstaendnis101
I was inspired to make this response because of Sugartalker's wonderful response on his STtalks channel:
http://www.youtube.com/Sugartalker
http://www.youtube.com/STtalks
The tongue twisters in German with English translations by FGAlxPx:
http://www.youtube.com/FGAlxPx
1) Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische;
Frische Fische fischt Fischers Fritze.
(The) Fisher(man)'s Fritz fishes fresh fish. Fresh fish fishes (the) fisher(man)'s Fritz.
2) Der Dachdecker deckt dein Dach, drum dank dem Dachdecker, der dein Dach deckt.
The roofer roofs a roof (/building), thus thank the roofer who roofs your roof (/building).
3) Am Zehnten Zehnten um zehn Uhr zehn zogen zehn zahme Ziegen zehn Zentner Zucker zum Zoo.
On 10/10 (10th of October) at 10 past 10 o'clock ten tame goats pulled ten centners sugar to the zoo.
Here are the English tongue-twisters that LuckyStrike502 tried out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LuckyStrike502
4. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
5. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells
6. Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: zungenbrecher tongue twisters language english german deutsch missverstaendnis101 sugartalker luckystrike502 fgalxpx
| | Vlog: Update, Featured and Some Exciting News - 123 sec
A short update on what I have been up to in the past week, a YouTube competition, and the debut of my new collaboration film channel with my sister.
http://www.youtube.com/nevermorefilms
The Art and Writing competition: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0-wV9dPks
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: nevermorefilms short film stop motion surreal tubewrite tubeart competition theravenofpoe featured
| | TubeWrite: Freedom of the Mind - 90 sec
There is a place for art and writing on YouTube. This entry into the TubeWrite competition seeks to prove how a visual and auditory medium can enhance one's writing and the experience of the audience. YouTube can bring a poem to life - poetry is not merely words, it is emotion and a means of connection between people. Quite like YouTube is ;)
"Freedom of the Mind"
Who do we think that we be?
Deeming ourselves so classless and free?
While enslaved by society's silent decree -
Blinded thus have we been taught to see.
Marching solemnly on the next enemy
Whose face is masked by our master's glee.
No longer is there and I or a Me -
Only a Them against a We.
While locked is the will and lost the key,
My mind shall be forever free.
Upon soft shore stands tall me -
Gazing out to the rolling sea.
© TheRavenOfPoe 2008
For contest details and information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0-wV9dPks
Music: "Grave Matters" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: tubewrite theravenofpoe poem poetry writing art
| | The Game Continues: Alex, H.P Lovecraft, and Horror - 318 sec
Thank you to Alex for tagging me in the Scary Tag game! =) You can find her channel here: http://www.youtube.com/fgalxpx
In this video I read an excerpt from "The Dreams in the Witch House" by H.P. Lovecraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
Rules of the Scary Tag Game (did I follow any of them? hehe..)
1. Tag three other YouTubers
2. They must respond within 5 days
3. Make the video scary
The first video in the game started by DennysNest can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hob9jVFC5_Q
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: scary tag game h.p. lovecraft horror brown jenkin dennysnest fgalxpx theravenofpoe
| | Procrastination: Of Beauty, Roses and Cats - 145 sec
Another bout of procrastination led me to make this video. I do relish in procrastination when it leads me to interesting pursuits or fun, hehe.. ;)
The feline in the video is Joseph, whom you can see a more formal introduction of in my Hallowe'en video.
The music is "The Gravel Road" and was composed by James Newton Howard.
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: procrastination beauty roses cats cat rose garden nature music theravenofpoe
| | Eight Questions Answered: Part III of III - 256 sec
In this part I answer the final four of eight interesting questions asked by Ogunshi http://www.youtube.com/ogunshi
1. Do you or have ever played in a larp or tabletop role-playing game? The SCA does not count.
2. If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring 5 things, what would they be?
3. You are about to go back in time, say to 1100s Europe, for the rest of your days. You are allowed to take 10 things with you, aside from a set of clothing, what would you take with you and why?
4. If you had to choose between 10,000 people you do not know (on the other side of the world) dying, or a single, close family member dying - which would you choose?
5.If you could live forever but had to be really ugly (I mean REALLY ugly) would you and why?
6. You find a bag with $10,000 cash in it, you have no idea who left this and you also know you could walk away with the bag without anyone knowing. Would you and what would you do with the money?
7. Do you believe in a higher power? If so, what and why?
8. Answer truthfully yes or no: the next thing you are going to say is going to be no.
What would your answers be to these questions?
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: questions answered ogunshi theravenofpoe eternal life ugly beautiful higher power god religion money dilemma paradox
| | Eight Questions Answered: Part II of III - 301 sec
In this part I answer questions 3 and 4 of eight interesting questions asked by Ogunshi http://www.youtube.com/ogunshi
1. Do you or have ever played in a larp or tabletop role-playing game? The SCA does not count.
2. If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring 5 things, what would they be?
3. You are about to go back in time, say to 1100s Europe, for the rest of your days. You are allowed to take 10 things with you, aside from a set of clothing, what would you take with you and why?
4. If you had to choose between 10,000 people you do not know (on the other side of the world) dying, or a single, close family member dying - which would you choose?
5.If you could live forever but had to be really ugly (I mean REALLY ugly) would you and why?
6. You find a bag with $10,000 cash in it, you have no idea who left this and you also know you could walk away with the bag without anyone knowing. Would you and what would you do with the money?
7. Do you believe in a higher power? If so, what and why?
8. Answer truthfully yes or no: the next thing you are going to say is going to be no.
The remaining answers will be in part III which will be a video response to this video.
What would your answers be to these questions?
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: questions answers ogunshi theravenofpoe time travel survival philosophy dilemma social hierarchy death life decision
| | Eight Questions Answered: Part I of III - 297 sec
In this part I answer the first two of eight interesting questions asked by Ogunshi http://www.youtube.com/ogunshi
1. Do you or have ever played in a larp or tabletop role-playing game? The SCA does not count.
2. If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring 5 things, what would they be?
3. You are about to go back in time, say to 1100s Europe, for the rest of your days. You are allowed to take 10 things with you, aside from a set of clothing, what would you take with you and why?
4. If you had to choose between 10,000 people you do not know (on the other side of the world) dying, or a single, close family member dying - which would you choose?
5.If you could live forever but had to be really ugly (I mean REALLY ugly) would you and why?
6. You find a bag with $10,000 cash in it, you have no idea who left this and you also know you could walk away with the bag without anyone knowing. Would you and what would you do with the money?
7. Do you believe in a higher power? If so, what and why?
8. Answer truthfully yes or no: the next thing you are going to say is going to be no.
The other answers will be in parts II and III which will be video responses to this first video.
What would your answers be to these questions?
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: questions answers ogunshi theravenofpoe desert island survival larp role playing game sca
| | Eyes of Blue - 101 sec
A summary of an article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The full text of the article can be read online here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/all-blueeyed-people-traced-back-to-one-ancestor/2008/02/02/1201801096064.html
The scientific paper published on this subject can be read here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2045q6234h66p744/fulltext.html
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: blue eyes eye colour color news article one common ancestor genetics science dna
| | Global Feature - Thank you and Update - 188 sec
My deepest thanks to each of you for your support and kind words.
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: global feature video prose stranger theravenofpoe film youtube community
| | Video Prose II: The Journey of Life - 207 sec
My second attempt at video prose. This time I memorised each section completely before filming it in the hope it would make the piece feel more natural.
Written, performed and filmed by TheRavenOfPoe.
The music is royalty free from incompetech.com
The piece is Laendler in C Minor (Hess 68).
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: video prose journey life occupation job career theravenofpoe
| | He wishes for the cloths of heaven - 28 sec
A reading of my favourite poem by William Butler Yeats (1865-1983). It is entitled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" and was first published in 1899.
Royalty-free music was used from incompetech.com. The piece was called "Atlantean Twilight".
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
Tags: yeats he wishes for the cloths of heaven w.b. william butler poem poetry reading colour change color
| | Australian YouTube Feature - 172 sec
Note: this video was made for when I was featured on the Australian YouTube page a week or two ago. I have today discovered I was featured on the Global page. And so the adventure continues ;)
A quick vlog in response to being featured.
Thank you to YouTube for featuring my video, I am quite humbled!
Auteur : TheRavenOfPoe
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