Explanation
The outcome of this project differs greatly from my inital intention. I originally planned to mesh artwork and writing of both my own and others in order to create a collage that helped to "induct" me into this new world of remixing. However, as I set out to begin that project, I discovered another one shouting at me from within my blog.
I had posted five poems that I wrote in highschool about the five senses: tactile (touch), visual (see), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and auditory (hear). They are very special to me because, quite frankly, I hate poetry, but something about that particular assignment was extremely enjoyable for me. They give a good look into my own unique perceptions of the world. Therefore, I ran each of these poems through a translator for fun and was absolutely blown away by the interpretations given back to me. I just had to share them. What better way to do that than to make them my remix project?
The technique I used for this project, as mentioned above, was to run each of the five peoms through AltaVista's Babel Fish translator. This can be found at http://babelfish.altavista.com. I first tranlated the poems into Japanese, then back to English, then to French, then back to English once again. The result changes the meaning almost completely, but leaves a beautiful poem. I have chosen not to use pictures or color in this presentation because I would like the words to be the center of attention and speak for themselves.
The purpose of this transformed project is similar to my original intention. However, rather than simply mixing my works with other works similar to them, I have mixed them up using something far larger and permanent: language. I explained earlier that these peoms represent how I view the world; I feel that English, French, and Japanese represent the major differences in languages throughout the world, giving a broad spectrum of world views, and by combining them together in my poems, I am able to, in a removed sense, look back at how the world views me. Go on. Take a look.