The stone was formless, inert until it was animated by "the reading eye".
If anything, its memorable imagery and range of registers, coupled with a formal restlessness that encompasses everything from loose quatrains to tumbling prose poems, make it an unusually animated and refreshing read.
The excitement of this animated, rhythmically freewheeling reading was in the way that Mr. Alexeev flirted with allowing the work to spin out of control, without ever losing its structural thread.
A "fixed" animated audiovisual work is read in much the same way as a static digital image, with the self-contained file read by a compatible program and projected onto the user's screen.
Poetry Reincarnations animates famous poets reading their work.
Watched by millions, it included puppets, animated segments, songs, books read aloud and special guests like Dolly Parton and Andy Griffith.
We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
Course material is always accessible online 24/7 be it videos, animated material, podcasts or reading materials.
The various bot-like advocates who call the Convergence home, their visions of withdrawal and transcendence animated by a pessimistic reading of ever-intensifying global disasters, possess a conviction that Jeffrey, on his own or in conjunction with his New York girlfriend, Emma, and Stak, the Ukrainian war orphan Emma adopted, proves unable to match.
"Icebox sells animated series to Fox," it read.
