Alot of the work I do is really hard to put into words.
I was listening to a NPR bit with Douglas Coupland, the Gen-X, Shampoo Planet meme spotter and semantic snapshot king while doing working on a combination of research, writing, public relations, web site development and playing with new infotoys.
Coupland talked about how technology is shifting so rapidly that there are new social experiences being fashioned as our culture creates new tools to express & communicate with.
Spent the evening playing with Wolf Archetypes and all that is related to such icons in modern culture. After several hours wandering through the interwebs a dear colleague & creative inspiration slipped me a link to thank me for a day in Billyburgwick.
Strangely enough the whole time I was dipping and bobbing through the digital natives take on the Big Bad Wolf I began to notice something in my day's mental inventory of images and articles only after I watched the video.
Very few rabbits. Very few images of the wolf with his prey. Seems also Little Red & the wolf are not depicted together much either.
Food for thought. Think I'm gonna do a day more of tumblr'n & internet research on rabbits.
Mucho Mahalo dear Plastic Robot & Christopher Stribley. It was nice boppin around East Williamsburg. Again! Again!
Little Bunny Foo Foo is a children’s poem, involving a rabbit harassing a population of field mice. The rabbit is scolded and eventually punished by a fairy. Like many traditional folk songs, there are multiple versions with differing variations. It is also known under the alternative name Little Rabbit Foo Foo; “Foo Foo” is sometimes spelled as “Fu Fu”.
The rhyme is usually sung by an older person to a younger child, using a repetitive tune that reinforces the meter, accompanied by hand gestures. In this mode of transmission, it is a form of tickle play that teaches and reinforces motor skills, often passed as childlore.
One of the more popular versions of the song is as follows:
Running through the forest Scooping up the fiel
“Little Rabbit Foo Foo Running through the forest Scooping up the field mice And bopping them on the head! Down came the Good Fairy, and she said: “Little Rabbit Foo Foo I don’t wanna see you Scooping up the field mice And bopping them on the head! I will give you three chances, And if you don’t behave, I will turn you into a UGLY Goon!
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