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Jimspitch

I'm interested in creating a show/platform in which aspiring poets and video artists can combine their skills to make content related to, expanding upon, and/or manipulating existing poetry for visual consumption.

Essentially it's designed as a specific destination upload site for content creators and remixers frustrated with the general comments and lack of specific critique found by submitting most videos to YouTube or other similar sites, like Blip.tv, Bliptv.com, Revver, etc. A common problem is that videos about dogs wearing dresses or street fights take popular precedence over less-popular, higher-quality artistic submissions, and this site will attempt to not only provide an exclusive space to highlight visual poetic experimentation, but will also focus on technical construction issues (technical, in this case, referring to grammatical form and syntax and content critique of original poetry as well as more pointed critique towards the visual process - would this be better with animation? Video? 3D? Too much detail? Too little?).

As the formal and informal critique are vital for any poet, visual or traditional, there would be professional poets available to e-mail or discuss within a scheduled forum to review and advise those who submit work of particular quality (though in the beginning, those with less experience will have a better chance at communicating with them). For beginners, there will be a step-by-step on how to use the site for their advantage, and an assortment of previous work to allow them some inspiration and a better idea on how to go about doing whatever is in their head.

There will not be an iron-clad format, as experimental poetry is just that, experimental. However, ideally there will be space on the page to upload text copy of the original poem, as well as descriptions of the visuals, and an area for links that inspired the poet that others can check. I'll be creating a sample video, and since my description ran away from me and basically became a destination site unto itself, I guess we'll try to explore that, too.