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Butterflies: Orbanism Festival #fil15

Butterflies #fil15

Butterflies #fil15

Meet Butterflies, my contribution to this year’s Orbanism Festival, Motto: “Falling in Love – #fil15 “.

A festival dedicated to digital culture and art, and free distribution thereof with a permission to alter (or “remix”) it for anyone who feels like participating! Orbanism also aims to spark a discussion about intellectual property rights in the digital age.

Read more about it on http://festival.orbanism.com/

As for my contribution: I decided to go for digital artwork rather than a poem (how unusual for me!), since it’s been such a long time since I’ve made anything of the sort. It’s not a masterpiece, but all the better: Anyone feel like remixing and improving it? 🙂

Itself already a digital remix, Butterflies was created purely from royalty free, license-free stock images with courtesy from freeimages.com, which is a gold mine for digital artists as they also have a plethora of images free for remixing and even commercial use. Go check it out – and of course, feel free to “remix my remix” and continue the tradition in the spirit of this wonderful idea. You may freely do so, because of course, as with all things released during the Orbanism festival, Butterflies may be freely downloaded, distributed and remixed under CC License 4.0 which means that you need to link back to the source if possible.

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Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” (1896)

Oh the wonderful things you find when digging around in old bookmarks. For example: This 1965 film version by Jean-Christophe Averty; of Alfred Jarry’s play “Ubu Roi” (1896) . Hopefully, it’ll stay uploaded for a long time. Enjoy.

(Subtitles can be enabled by using the little settings button on the bottom right if needed.)

A strange man

The following story was posted without a title on an internet platform as a “scary story” and has become one of my favorite pieces of short prose (I wouldn’t say it classifies as a short story) both in terms of its style and – especially so – in terms of its effect on the reader. But read for yourself.

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I live in Osaka, Japan and often use the subway to go to work in the morning. One day, when I was waiting for the train, I noticed a homeless man standing in a corner of the subway station, muttering to himself as people passed by. He was holding out a cup and seemed to be begging for spare change.
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… as you are about to enter the imaginarium, a polite guide droid approaches you and begins to greet you in an artificial, yet strangely soothing computerized voice:

Introducing: the dreams of Promethea512 and Persephone512

+ Dear valued guest,

+ please accept our warmest welcome to the overground realm of Promethea512, and the underground realm of Persephone512 respectively.
+ We hope you enjoy your stay.
+ I will be your guide droid for the day.

+ A short comment on how to navigate these pages:

+ Dreams of the Lightbringer - The page you are currently on. Posts will include non-fictional writing and comments or discussions related to shared news articles, artwork etc. whichever content is deemed noteworthy by the curator. But see for yourself.

+ Dreams of the Sentinel - Companion page; accessible via the underground pathway, see sidebar to the right. Will include art, poems, writing and other fictional musings of the curator's own creation.

+ About the dreamers - A short explanation on "Promethea512" and "Persephone512", to be found in the realm of Persephone512, since both are conceptual, fictional characters.

+ If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I will remain close by.

… you enter the imaginarium in curious wonder. The droid follows you with a whirring sound; keeping his assigned distance, yet not ever falling far behind. …