New pieces of twittery

A new piece of twitery – Wind

Twitery is digital poetry, posted to twitter in 140-character chunks, via computer and web browser, or from my mobile phone. I have just produced my second work of twitery, entitled Wind. My first piece – Perigee Moon @ Black Point – was produced a week or two ago and I have just begun a third example of twitery – Pixelated – due any day.

So that the real world does not distract me too much, I have emmersed myself into a few interesting little projects. Well, I think that they are interesting, this doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone else will. I have just published, some twittery, a friendfeed/twitter feed and a page for some lolcats who keep threatening to scratch my eyes out if I don’t write code for them.
Some other pages have been added recently –

Twitery home page – coming
Perigee Moon @ Black Point
Twitery Wind
Pixelated – coming
Curly Artworks
Twitter Archive
Twitter FriendFeed Feed
Lolcats CatChat
Lolcats Blog
Lolcats Archive

Chris Loft 1 February 2009

Look Mum! – Now I’m an artist!

The Radio Curly Collective are renowned for their creativity, both musically and visually. you have seen all of their video clips – haven’t you? lately we have been mixing with a strange breed of people – artists. To prove that we have what it takes we have launched another new web page to display some of our artistic endeavour from the Radio Curly Collective.

My recent foray into the world of twiterature, Perigee Moon @ Black Point has inspired me to produce more twitery. A new work will be forthcoming, it has just about been completed. In order to not fill my regular @chrisloft stream on twitter with inane rantings, rhyme and rhythm – I am now tweeting twitery on a new twitter account. You can follow me on Twitter at @christwitery and see the progress we have made. Once completed we shall ad this new piece of twitery to our site.

Chris Loft 31 January 2009

Three new web pages

So that the real world does not distract me too much, I have emmersed myself into a few interesting little projects. Well, I think that they are interesting, this doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone else will. I have just published, some twittery, a friendfeed/twitter feed and a page for some lolcats who keep threatening to scratch my eyes out if I don’t write code for them.

Paul Burcheit, one of the founders of FriendFeed, recently released some code that you can incorporate into your own web pages to receive a stream of FriendFeed items. FriendFeed UI – CLICK HERE. I’ve had a lot of fun trying to merge it into one of my pages, but in the end I had to set up a separate page, but I added some feeds from Twitter to it as well.

I went away for a few days the other week for a relaxing stay at the beach up at Black Point, just past Ardrossan. No computer. No internet. Well, I did have my mobile phone – as I walked along lonely beaches in the early hours before dawn I found myself coming up with strange lines of ‘poetry’ – that I twittered on my phone. When I got back to town I compiled them into a dark and sombre stream of verse. Please let me know what you think, you can have a look at Perigee Moon @ Black Point by @chrisloft

Just to keep me on my toes, and in good spirits I have been building a site for some friends of mine. Very strange, because I am not normally into cute pictures of cats, kittens and puppies. My friend, Ceiling Kat, inspired by the Lolcat Bible Translation Project has set up his own internet site. He has some ambitious plans, but at this stage the features that he wants to implement are held by placeholders. If you like cute cats take a look at CatChat CatChat – the home of Ceiling Kat and check out the link to the Lolcat Bible Translation Project – it is a scream (rofl) – thanks to Kay Walker for finding and sharing this – now I love Lolcats too.

Chris Loft 25 January 2009

Experimental FriendFeed UI

This experimental message-oriented FriendFeed UI is written with brower-side JS using JSON API. The source is available from Paul Buchheit at FriendFeed. I have had a little bit of fun trying to integrate the code into my own page, but have decided just to call up a link to a separate page.

FriendFeed UI – CLICK HERE

Chris Loft 23 January 2009