polumi = POetryLUMIère

Can I get your opinion on this?

I started a web site dedicated to visual poetry. Because in the beginning I was mainly asking visual artists and filmmaker to produce / visualize poetry I came up with PoetryVisualized.com. However I hear form here and there that it's to long and hard to spell (typing errors). Now I came up with an additional name which redirects to PoetryVisualized.com

polumi = POetryLUMIère

www.polumi.com

Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol[1] [2]), were among the earliest filmmakers. (Appropriately, "lumière" translates as "light" in English.)

The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures March 22, 1895.[3] Their first public screening of movies at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895, at Paris's Salon Indien du Grand Café. This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).[4] Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 46 seconds.

It is believed their first film was actually recorded that same year (1895)[5] with Léon Bouly's cinématographe device, which was patented the previous year. The cinématographe— a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures— was further developed by the Lumières.

Max and Emil Skladanowsky, inventors of the Bioskope, had offered projected moving images to a paying public one month earlier (November 1, 1895, in Berlin). Neverless, film historians consider the Grand Café screening to be the true birth of the cinema as a commercial medium, because the Skladanowsky brothers' screening used an extremely impractical dual system motion picture projector that was immediately supplanted by the Lumiere cinematographe.

Source: wikipedia.org

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The internet's coolest place to be for poetry lovers: PoetryVisualized.com

If you’re into poetry, the coolest place to go to in the internet now is PoetryVisualized.com. Although it’s still relatively new and not yet discovered by many, poetryvisualized.com (PV for short) can already give you hours of pure, literary, poetic enjoyment from some of the best, if not the best and most creative poets and artists in the internet. Because PV’s focus is mainly on visualized poetry, you can – without having to do a lot of searching and time-consuming sorting through tons of other kinds of videos - just sit back and savor poetry at its best. And, it’s presented to you in an “enhanced” version – that is, with music and visuals as interpreted by the poet contributor. The musical choices themselves are already quite good, and the visuals – photographs, videos, arts/graphics and even animation – are almost always, stunning, simply outstanding!!!. The add to that the beauty of the poem itself in both its content and of course the delivery. Taken all together, you have right there a full repertoire or menu, of delightful, enjoyable, educational, thought-provoking, and inspiring session on the internet.

This is the precisely main reason for poetryvisualized.com’s coming into being: to provide a “home” dedicated solely and principally only to poetry – most specifically, visualized poetry. Catering not so much to everyone, but particularly to those who create and appreciate poetry as an art form, a means of expression and a delightful source of personal entertainment. With such a base site, those who enjoy poetry can spend their time – whether just a few minutes, or for several hours – on enjoying, savoring their favorite poems – rather than frustratingly hopping from one site to another, with so many other non-poetry videos (or distractions??) in between. In a way, it’s like going to a museum, for those who like art. Of course you can always bump into all sorts of art pieces in many large places like a mall, or huge public park. But if you want to simply focus on artistic works, you would logically go to a museum or art gallery. The same thing with poetry in the internet. There are gazillions of poems and poetic videos out there – in YouTube, LiveVideo, and innumerable other sites. But if you want to spend your time just on viewing and appreciating video poetry – as opposed to looking for them and jumping from one site to another, your best and most logical option would be to hangout at poetryvisualized.com

At this stage – just a little over two months since its launching, poetryvisualized.com is still in the early stages of building up its archives. But, it is growing every day – and the quality of its content submissions make up for the tremendous quantity of other video submissions elsewhere in the internet. Our community of poets, artists, writers, teachers, and just plain poetry lovers is also continuously expanding. While we are hoping for more numbers, still the quality of the visitors and members – with a more refined taste for high literary and cultural value entertainment – is remarkable.

The bottom line is, at long last, there is a well-deserved place for poetry and visualized poetry, in the internet. It is a home for all people who love and enjoy poetry as one of the highest forms of meaningful human expression. That home is PoetryVisualized.com. Our Home. Welcome home!!! And while you’re here, sit back, relax and ENJOY!!!

The Making Of Your Video Poem

We have good news for you!

You can now share with us the Inside Story of every Visual Poem you upload at our site. Tell us the Who, What, When, Why and How of your VPoem: Who or what inspired you to make it, when did you do it, why and how did you produce it? Yes, all the juicy details if you will, on The Making of your Video Poem – as only the original creator or producer can tell it. Throw in some humorous tidbits, some kinks and snags, if any. Did you use any special techniques? Some tricks of the trade, perhaps? Did you have other collaborators? All these will make for an interesting, informative and insightful reading for the rest of us, your audience. If you can throw in some pictures or clips to color your story, so much the better.

So how about it? Behind every creation, there is a story. Tell us yours. Pleas go to the forum Comunnity --> Forum --> Guides, Tips, Tricks and others resources --> The Making Of Your Video Poem and post your story.

We can't wait to read and learn from you.

Internet Video Poetry Festival Opens this March to Promote New Genre of Poetry

The Festival of Visualized Poetry was launched this week by PoetryVisualized.com as its initial effort at promoting interest in visual poetry over the internet. The festival is open to anyone who can produce a Video Poem, a format of poetic expression which combines a poem with sounds, music and visual images. Poetryvisualized.com is itself a recently launched website which focuses primarily on showcasing Video Poems, and whose stated goal is to promote visualized poetry as “an emerging genre in the renaissance of poetry in the 21^st Century”. “In many ways, we are like YouTube, except that we specialize in presenting poetry combined with music and images” says Tansel Yilmaz, one of the website’s founders.

The Festival will be for a period of at least six months and could be extended up to one year. The winning entries will be included in a feature film documentary on visualized poetry which will be produced and released in DVD. “It could also be released through television and submitted to film festivals,” according to Rod Underhill, the Chief Visionary Officer and General Counsel of PoetryVisualized.com. Mr. Underhill, who is also one of the original founders of the widely successful MP3.com says the festival provides an opportunity for budding, new artists, poets, film directors and producers to get their works published by becoming part of a documentary film project which will be submitted to film festivals, released through television and sold to the public as DVDs.

Participation is open to the public, 18 years and older. The poems can be original composition, or previously published poetry. “There is so much material out there, already in the public domain that can be used in this contest from the works of William Shakespeare, to Robert Frost, or Edgar Allan Poe, that one does not have to be a poet to participate” says Rod Underhill. “You do need to have the visionary creativity and imagination of a poet combined with the talent for video editing and production – the kind of stuff a lot of people already do on YouTube”, Mr. Underhill adds. The subject is open on a wide ranging category from love to social commentary. It should be produced as a Video Poem or Visualized Poem, (VPoem, for short), from 1 to 10 minutes in length, in which the poem is read with accompanying sounds, music, and visual images. The images can be still photographs, videos, graphics, animation or a combination of all, where imagery projects the message of poem as interpreted by the artist.

Submission of entries starts this week through direct uploads to its website, www.poetryvisualized.com. Entries can also be submitted by mail in DVD/CD/VD on standard, popular video file formats – (Quick Time, AVI, swf, wmv, flv, mpeg, rm, vob, 3gp, asf.) to 1628 East Appleton Street, Long Beach, CA, 90802

Call for entries to the Festival Of Visualized Poetry 2008

PoetryVisualized.com is now accepting entries to the Festival Of Visualized Poetry. We welcome film, video, or digital creations that combine poetry, with sound, music, and visual images – photos, videos, graphics and animation. The entries can be set to any poem, published or unpublished; or it can be poetic in nature, as interpreted by the artist. The winning films will be included in our Visual Poetry Motion Picture.

YouTube is Great, so Why Post at PoetryVisualized.com?

YouTube is GREAT! That’s why millions of people love it. But how do you stand out from the crowd? If you are a poet or artist or film maker with a creative, poetic video, people will have to sift through so many other interesting videos, just to find you. Consider this: Why not post your creations also at www.poetryvisualized.com?

Because we are focused only on video poems, or visualized poetry, it would be much easier and convenient for our target audience of poets and poetry enthusiasts to access and enjoy you work!! Make sense? It’s like going to a sporting goods store to shop for say, a tennis racket, rather than shopping at a very large, we have everything supermarket.

So as you post with YouTube and put your videos together with millions of other kinds and types of videos, just take a few moments to also post your creations at www.poetryvisualized.com – with contents that are solely for visualized poetry. That way, people who love poetry will not have to sort through the haystack to discover you – they can go right where only visualized poems are showcased, in a website that is totally dedicated to your poetic creations and you: www.poetryvisualized.com .

An Emerging Genre: Visualized Poetry, Finds New Home in PoetryVisualized.Com

What has been building up over the years, starting with individual creations here and there, mingling with all other forms of poetic expression, has finally come on its own. We now officially recognize the emergence of a new genre of poetic expression – Visualized Poetry, or Poetry Visualized. It is actually known by many names – as is typical of any developing trend that has gained popularity and will continue to gain momentum and public adherence over the years. It’s being called Video Poems, Vid Poems, Cine Poems, Movie Poetry, VPoems, etc.

VPoems, under the genre: PoetryVisualized
What it really is, regardless of the many names it has been called, is poetry visualized – so that is what we call its genre: poetryvisualized. The poems that fit in the new genre are what we call VPoems for short.

Thus, with the opening of poetryvisualized.com, we not only recognize this new poetic form, we are providing it a permanent home – a launching pad, if you will – that it deserves and needs. With the internet as the principal medium, and the availability of digital multimedia tools, both hardware and software, now in the hands of amateurs and professionals alike, the creation of Visualized Poetry is now practically within the capability of most everyone!!! What is even more exciting is that poetry’s enjoyment is now enhanced. It is no longer just written words for silent reading, nor merely verbal recitations as has been traditionally done. Now we can render poetry as we see it in our minds eye – by using photography, animation, videography, special effects –utilizing not just the pen, but the myriad tools of today’s digital technologies – digital cameras, camcorders, video editing software, multimedia computers, etc.. We can mix poetic verses with sounds, musical backgrounds, stunning visual images from animation to photographs and videos, setting the mood and projecting the message of the poem as we see it. The creative possibilities are mind boggling!!!

You, with your camera – still or video, and your friend with his musical creativity, another friend who is a poet, in collaboration with still another who has the video editing and production skills – can actually put your collective talents together and come out with a MASTERPIECE!!!

We, from the creators of VPoems to those who simply just appreciate it, are all instrumental in the birth of Visualized Poetry as the newest and most exciting form of self-expression – ushering its enjoyment into the new century of digital technology and global reach, and actually bringing about the renaissance of poetry in the 21st Century and beyond!!! WOW!!!

So what are you waiting for? Join in the surging tide – jump into the bandwagon, fly with the wind, float with the current – whatever else you want to call it. Make your Visualized Poem, and post it at its new home, poetryvisualized.com, where it will be given its due recognition, presented to the world, and forever treasured – evidence of your own birth and passing as a creator – of visualized poetry.