Hi Thomas, thanks for the response. Could I include it in the next edition of SheepyWiki? It may evolve into a kind of Fanzine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine
Yes.. "butchering" ... i did dwell over the choice of that word! The intention was to get into the character of the sheep. By making her aware of the world of butchery hoped to bring an existential aspect to her personality. I thought that she would see cutting things up primarily in terms of butchery and slaughter. Her existence is --after all -- is to produce lamb for the table. There is a get out! Its all in the context: The sheep is an electric cloned sheep, and the text is part of her dream! ha ha! There's also a growing critique of the role of sheep in the landscape, the term SheepWreck is use by environmentalist George Monbiot: -- http://www.monbiot.com/2013/05/30/sheepwrecked/ . Is it worth the sheep existing at all? Granting the "sheep avatar" a level of consciousness allows the writer to enter certain discourses in a playful manner. BTW if anyone wants to use the character to write a sketch for SheepyWiki we (me and the sheep!) would be over the moon! I have been thinking that a form, a kind of animated post card. Simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic. Marshall McLuhan had a theory -- i think! -- where a new medium such as TV was understood as a development from an older medium like film. In TiddlyWiki we have a media which we understand as a development of the wiki, a small wiki. We have "Tiddlers".... and then we have our own technical language -- a meta language -- to talk about TiddlyWiki itself. I think that the words TiddlyWiki and Tiddler are a great part off the design. It makes it easy to separate the content of the text from the technicalities associated with the presentation of the text. " is better to be confusingly distinctive than confusingly generic" A tiddler is also analogous to a index card. It could quite easily be a post card, evoking a type of text and sentiments associated with sending post-cards: a message from a far away place, a place with an appearance worth sharing. The poster of the card wants to share a view and a message from that place. I was thinking about those type of animate picture you sometimes see in Indian restaurants. There is one in my local Turkish supermarket. There is a picture, a kind of light box. Its back lit and there is some kind of mechanism which makes the water look like it is moving. I haven't a clue what they are called! Actually... the more I think about it, the tiddler as post-card metaphor might be better developed as a "child" of those "3D" view finders you can buy in places like the Alps (or could do in the 1970s) -- like this thingy --- https://www.image3d.com/retroviewer/home/ The microfiche viewer is another old technology visual metaphor I like. It has the back-lit property which the index card doesn't have. There's something about surface patina I like. When you use a microfiche machine, you get a layer which doesn't move when you scroll. And they have a manual highlighting mechanims, it adds another layer. Its basicaly dust on lenses and lights, but it adds to the feel of the technology. In the TiddlyWiki community, we sometimes visit the discourse around adoption and how the process is hindered by the word Tiddler. I made a comment about how perhaps non-native English language users warm more to TiddlyWiki because the word does not sound as childish or toylike. Josiah has made some interesting comments on Twitter about TW as a bricolage tool. It we see it as a technology for DIY independent creativity and adaption it becomes -- in my mind at least -- something a KraftWork or Joy Division member would be using if they were starting out today. Just as instruments like the Moog started to be used in ways the creator didn't intend, so can TiddlyWiki. Its really a hypertext synthesiser. HTML, JS and CSS are made easier and quicker to use by non-specialists. Thanks for Määääh! and «Mäh»! I like those little speach marks too -- " « » " -- I will have to find a robot mowing machine to accompay the sheep! -- http://www.husqvarna.com/uk/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4eXPBRCtARIsADvOjY0BUh_MNU2xKtbx7t2w2qDWitGr3wvwNVBYesXn7CldvhDOecQJNAMaAov4EALw_wcB Alex On 31 October 2017 at 22:34, Thomas Elmiger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > very nice indeed! Feel free to steel some German characters for your > sheep: Määääh! > > (By the way: «Mäh» sounds a bit like the word for mowing or it’s > imperative mow!) > > Talking about sounds: Hearing a sheep talking about “butchering” sounds a > bit macabre to my ears ;–) > > Now I will go and count sheep. 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