In case you missed my cartoonist-in-residence presentation at Haiku North America 2017 (September 17, 2017), here’s a short edited version featuring comics only.
It includes:
0’00 A short introduction to Old Pond Comics
3’31 HNA 2017 conference comics
6’15: Kaleidoscope haiku-cartoons featuring haiku by Jim Kacian, Alexis Rotella, Tanya McDonald, Terry Ann Carter, Kala Ramesh, Brad Bennett.
Thanks to the wonderful audience at Haiku North America.
A frog wants to be friends with a butterfly in my new Old Pond Comics zine. This mini-zine is folded from one sheet of paper folded 5 times. Check out this video showing the process.
You can buy a cop of the zine on my webstore.
I gave a talk at the Haiku Canada weekend on Sunday May 17 2015 in Victoria, B.C.
The title of my presentation was: Thousand Islands: Publishing Haiku using new technology, from Twitter Haiku to iPad Haiga
Synopsis:
Come explore a real archipelago of publishing options for the web, social media, and beyond. This presentation offers an overview of the most innovative haiku projects available on new platforms, such as blogs, Twitter haiku, iPad haiga, video poems, podcasts, guerrilla haiku, art installations, and other experiments in the public space. Jessica Tremblay will show you the best of the best in this lightning speed presentation which aims to inspire you to try new technology for your own projects. Don’t be stuck in one place when there are so many islands to explore!
As promised, here are the links to the websites I talked about. Have fun exploring these new technologies and finding new ways to share your haiku!
If you have a haiku blog, website, twitter account, feel free to share the links with us in the comments section.
Blogs
Twitter Haiku
iPad haiga
FlipBooks
Podcasts
Haiku-Video
The fly is one of the many new characters from the Old Pond Comics series I was able to developed thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
In this behind-the-scene video, I show how I put my zines together.
The zine will be available soon on the Old Pond Comics online store: http://bit.ly/1CMjddW
My voice is raw from recording Kaeru’s voice for my haiku live video, but the frog finally speaks!
The animation film tells the story of how Kaeru became the Haiku Apprentice. It will be launched on the Haiku Foundation website on April 17 2015 (National Haiku Day!).
Meanwhile, enjoy this “making of “video from Old Pond Comics.
I made this short animation from Old Pond Comics for the National Haiku Writing Month. The prompt for February 2 2015 was: noisily.
I really like this Haiku Video found on Vimeo that was done for a video production class. It uses a modern-style of film-making to illustrate a traditional haiku by Shiki. I like that the spider is not seen but suggested. It looks great (except for maybe the close-up of the fly).
Haiku Video (School Project) from BambucO Productions on Vimeo.
It’s a fact that “dew” does happen and you just gotta live with it. (Old Pond Comics)
simply trust! trust!
dewdrops spilling
down
– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue)
Illustrated by Old Pond Comics
PS I took these pictures during a walk to the Seabeck Historical Cemetary (at Seabeck Haiku Retreat 2013). To see more, check out the digital story I created with the photos.
A 20 seconds video on the theme “Box”.
Old Pond Comics video featuring the NaHaiWriMo Prompt “Banjo”. 51 seconds.
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