{"id":1912,"date":"2011-09-27T23:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T03:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2011-09-27T23:55:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T03:55:41","slug":"yo-dawg-i-hear-you-like-taroko-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/09\/yo-dawg-i-hear-you-like-taroko-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo Dawg, I Hear You Like Taroko Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his just-released <a href=\"http:\/\/eblong.com\/zarf\/argot-ogre-ok.html\">&#8220;Argot Ogre, OK!&#8221;<\/a> Andrew Plotkin presents mash-ups and remixes of (almost) all the &#8220;Taroko Gorge&#8221; remixes to date (and of course the original &#8220;Taroko Gorge&#8221;), producing such poignant lines as &#8220;LAWN DARTS linger&#8221; along with single-source remixes and some different stanza shapes. Anyone interested in this thread of poetry generation projects should check it out and should certainly &#8220;view source.&#8221; Or don&#8217;t, if you don&#8217;t want to discover more about the secret of the monkey.<\/p>\n<p>This, my friends, calls for a recap of the generators of this general sort to date &#8211; eleven of them, so far. Note particularly the two generators mentioned only in comments (<a href=\"http:\/\/luckysoap.com\/generations\/whisperwire.html\">&#8220;Whisper Wire,&#8221;<\/a> a third remix with visual elements by J. R. Carpenter and the fanlicious <a href=\"http:\/\/samplereality.com\/elit\/takeigeorge.html\">&#8220;Takei, George&#8221;<\/a> by Mark Sample, which was released after my post) and two other generators released after my post (<a href=\"http:\/\/polyaesthetics.org\/AloneEngaged.html\">&#8220;Alone Engaged&#8221;<\/a> by Maria Engberg, made at and perhaps redolent of Georgia Tech, and a generator for the the Harry Potter wizarding world of Weasleycest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flourishklink.com\/portfolio\/fredandgeorge.html\">&#8220;Fred &amp; George&#8221;<\/a> by Flourish Klink). In alphabetical order by title, here is a linked list of all of them so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/polyaesthetics.org\/AloneEngaged.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/alone_engaged_window.png\" alt=\"Alone Engaged by Maria Engberg\" title=\"Alone Engaged by Maria Engberg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/luckysoap.com\/alongthebrinybeach\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/along_the_briny_beach_window.png\" alt=\"Along the Briny Beach by J. R. Carpenter\" title=\"Along the Briny Beach by J. R. Carpenter\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eblong.com\/zarf\/argot-ogre-ok.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/argot_ogre_ok_window.png\" alt=\"Argot Ogre, OK! by Andrew Plotkin\" title=\"Argot Ogre, OK! by Andrew Plotkin\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flourishklink.com\/portfolio\/fredandgeorge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/fred_and_george_window.png\" alt=\"Fred &amp; George by Flourish Klink\" title=\"Fred &amp; George by Flourish Klink\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/luckysoap.com\/generations\/gorge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/gorge_window.png\" alt=\"Gorge by J. R. Carpenter\" title=\"Gorge by J. R. Carpenter\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/samplereality.com\/elit\/takeigeorge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/takei_george_window.png\" alt=\"Takei, George by Mark Sample\" title=\"Takei, George by Mark Sample\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/poems\/taroko_gorge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/taroko_gorge_window.png\" alt=\"Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort\" title=\"Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/retts.net\/tokyogarage.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/tokyo_garage_window.png\" alt=\"Tokyo Garage by Scott Rettberg\" title=\"Tokyo Garage by Scott Rettberg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talanmemmott.com\/drp_web\/text_gen\/toygarbage\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/toy_garbage_window.png\" alt=\"Toy Garbage by Talan Memmott\" title=\"Toy Garbage by Talan Memmott\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/luckysoap.com\/generations\/whisperwire.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/whisper_wire_window.png\" alt=\"Whisper Wire by J. R. Carpenter\" title=\"Whisper Wire by J. R. Carpenter\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talanmemmott.com\/es\/pg\/yoko\/yoko_engorged.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/yoko_engorged_window.png\" alt=\"Yoko Engorged by Eric Snodgrass\" title=\"Yoko Engorged by Eric Snodgrass\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his just-released &#8220;Argot Ogre, OK!&#8221; Andrew Plotkin presents mash-ups and remixes of (almost) all the &#8220;Taroko Gorge&#8221; remixes to date (and of course the original &#8220;Taroko Gorge&#8221;), producing such poignant lines as &#8220;LAWN DARTS linger&#8221; along with single-source remixes and some different stanza shapes. Anyone interested in this thread of poetry generation projects should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/09\/yo-dawg-i-hear-you-like-taroko-gorge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yo Dawg, I Hear You Like Taroko Gorge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,15,95,30,13],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-programming","tag-remixing","tag-story-generation","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}