Creative Writing | Vivid Foundry https://vividfoundry.com Creativity emerges, even from structure. Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:00:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Poem: Stakes https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2019/06/30/poem-stakes/ Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:05:22 +0000 https://vividfoundry.com/?p=2860 They will treat us as disposable in life, The young, the old, and the free. They’ll call us mindless agents, When we seek is a clear path for A sustainable future, of hope That doesn’t cost anyone else’s loss. And after death, They will desecrate our graves, Shut down our memories and our shrines. Raise […]

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]]> Poem: Bleached Ocean (draft) https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2017/06/28/bleached-ocean-sestina-poem-oppressive/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:23:48 +0000 https://vividfoundry.com/?p=2313 You brought her to the ocean edge. She wondered how much it would hurt If she held her breath without any peace. If she trailed into the waves on her own, Met mantle crusts that squeeze her side Just for imagining different shore lines. Times you’ve shared pilgrimage in virtuous lines, Couldn’t say she was […]

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]]> Poem: 4’33” and Variations https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2017/03/07/poem-433-and-variations/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:07:41 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=2248 He was tremendous to me, once. Told me everything I wanted to hear. Into the long night, it was Where everything was analyzable. We scrutinized every silence and Lorded over that time, that space. We seemed unafraid to speak our Minds: Restless, young, brash. There were silences when we Watched each other breathe, Wanted to […]

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]]> Poem: Unseasonally https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2017/01/05/poem-unseasonally/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:59:03 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=2239 Unseasonally that winter, The heat burnished street corners Into a filmy, snow-less static. Songbirds twisted their heads In confusion, as pedestrians Gestured at one another In hesitant notes and climes. I think I waved at you then, Just as your heels stuck to the mud. For that moment, it was as though No cars moved, […]

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]]> Poem: SmallTalkBig https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2016/12/07/poem-smalltalkbig/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:10:14 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=2229 Where are you from? I ask not the typical question; I mean how you would paint yourself, Whence you’re developing your core. I mean that I see myself in a nest of mazes, Colors and meandering wildflower ideas, Being wholly comfortable in complexities, And simultaneously needing to gulp down more air, Flirting with reality and […]

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]]> Creative Production Inspirations and Lessons from BTS in Kpop, Pt. 1 https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2016/12/06/creative-production-inspirations-and-lessons-from-bts-in-kpop-pt-1/ https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2016/12/06/creative-production-inspirations-and-lessons-from-bts-in-kpop-pt-1/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:10:59 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=2193 BTS, a seven-man K-Pop hip hop group, has been a creative inspiration to me in ways that I didn’t believe would be possible for my cynical-of-mainstream heart and mind. With their recent win of Mnet’s Asian Music Awards (MAMA)’s Artist of the Year Daesang, they have literally started from the bottom to win the most […]

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]]> https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2016/12/06/creative-production-inspirations-and-lessons-from-bts-in-kpop-pt-1/feed/ 18 Poem: Swimming Small https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2016/09/30/poem-swimming-small-by-tanya-kan/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:43:34 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=2140 A poem about possibly loving at an arms' reach, floating along like flotsam, catching gazes.

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]]> Sound is a Spectrum: First chapter released for a new Twine game https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2013/12/10/sound-is-a-spectrum-first-chapter-released-for-a-new-twine-game/ Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:20:44 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=1151 This is just something that I just started developing after coming out of Bit Bazaar and the first Babel build. I started thinking up the idea of creating a slice-of-life story of a girl who grew up in an entertainment agency and wants more than anything else to step into the role of an idol, […]

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]]> ‘Encasement’: Finally, a solo weekend jam game at Dames Making Games https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2013/09/30/female-weekend-jam-game-solo-damesmakinggames-toronto/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 03:46:25 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=1050 So I completed my first solo weekend game jam games at Dames Making Games (@DMGToronto) at the Snacktember members jam! It was a lot of fun, and definitely a test in self-judgement and self-reliance. Prior to this, I have completed Ludum Dare 26 (themed “Minimalism”) as a floater and the Oculus VR Jam (3 weeks […]

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]]> Rotoscopes: Small stories, small futures https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/07/rotoscopes-small-stories-small-futures/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:12:05 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=785   Note: If the animation doesn’t start right away, left-click on the image area above. Something I dubbed “Cicatrix” was evoked at the end of the rotoscope. This was a short story that I started writing in grade 10 about the speculative near future, where there were tribal groups vying to advance technology for their […]

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