Earlier today Michael Branson Smith brought his Dr. Oblivion bot to life on the web. Cogdog had the doctor produce an ode to HTML:
Which was great. We had talked about having students submit their work to Dr. Oblivion for feedback, so here was an opportunity to try it out:
That little pause between how and creative is perfect. OK, but what more could I do with this? Well, I could find an open source backing track from bensound that sounded appropriate for beatnik poetry and put it all together:
Something tells me it will be an interesting semester.
The original sonnet the Doctor dreamed up is simply amazing, but then running it through oblivion university for feedback was a genius move, and absolutely at the core of why we are playing with this. But when you put both to music, truly poetry, I mean this is really starting to feel a lot like ds106 Christmas.
ds106 Christmas, absolutely yes!
It’s ALIVE!, IT”S A_L+I_V+E!!!!
Cool. Beat beats to beat poetry ..
Kevin