[Newspoetry] animation assistant wanted

[sigfried at shout.net]

I can't figure out how to read either of those representations.

It would be nice, first of all, to just have two versions: 
the upside down and right side up, both rendered in the letters
that make them easiest to read.

Having seen that, it might be easier to figure out a web
representation that makes sense.

Sigfried

William Gillespie said:
> 
> Months ago Mark Enslin composed a newspoem more formally arduous than I
> thought possible - it is a poem that can be read rightside up or upside
> down. He used letters which appear like other letters when inverted (n/u
> etc.). He intends that the poem - which is about sweatshops - be
> presented on an animated mobius strip in which one can see the front
> (rightsideup) and back of the mobius strip as it cycles. Trying to pare
> this idea down into something I knew how to do, I suggested instead a
> wheel (spinning wheel - relevant to sweatshops).
> 
> Which still leaves many problems - how to make it clear that the letters
> are meant to be read upside down (different fonts, carefully handwritten
> text?) and how to make the wheel spin both directions - since both the
> top and bottom ought to move from right to left.
> 
> Still it is not an easy task and any advice or assistance is welcome.
> Both the original text and a circular version are available at
> 
> http://www.newspoetry.com/1999/mobius/
> 
> I'd love to make it happen - I've never seen a poem anything like it -
> but man, whew, what a concept...
> 
> -Ed.
> 
> 
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