3/21/2007

Like finding a lost scrap of a stranger’s to-do list or shopping list in the street…
Today I found this bit of unintentional poetry in a Japanese person’s English vocabulary list.

speculate, acoustic, excerpt, contemplation, fervor, scrutinize

For me the English vocabulary list was a creative challenge like Magnetic Poetry Kit I might come across on refrigerator door. It sounded to me oddly poetic:

Speculate acoustic.
Excerpt.
Contemplation.
Fervor scrutinize!

Using a web-based art tool called “Montage-a-google “ that employs Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms), I entered that vocabulary list. Then “Montage-a-google “ generated montages of the word pairs, which I animated into this “found-word” poem.

For more fun with pattern-forming serendipity, try using the online WordCount.org that lets you interact with patterns of the 86,800 most frequently used words in the English language.