Hey you beautiful human being,
How's life in general?
(As my grandfather used to say).
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Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer
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Hey,
How are you doing?
Something very different from me. A change in direction.
I've began making TikTok videos, experimenting if you like. They're short, fairly easy and fun to make. And they get views. Unlike my video poems, which take a lot of work and get literally nothing.
So it's time to change. Here's a couple of recent ones.
Mum found alive after 25 years!
She was recently charged with a DUI after she was found. It was an outstanding warrant from 2001. Hence the old/new photo comparison.
This is a personal and unusual story that happened to me
in the 90's during my first Mardi Gras event.
More Video Poems
Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer
Music of the Masses
Someone must be to blame.
Someone must pay the price.
Will it be you?
A video poem by AJ Langford
Watch on YouTube HERE
or below
What are your thoughts? Do you agree?
I'm not sure how many more of these Video Poems I'll make. I make quick disposable videos for TikTok that get so many more views. These are hard to make. People just don't care about art. About quality. They want a quick hit. Seconds worth.
I have a few 'in the bank' ready to go and many more voiceovers recorded but I'm not sure I'll turn those voiceovers into visuals. I can't upload them to TikTok either. Those voiceovers may never see the light of day. There's dozens.
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| AI generated for this post. My idea but 'I didn't create it!' So sick of seeing music videos on YouTube that doesn't specify it's AI. These 'artists' are delibrately trying to mislead people. They're huge egos. Arseholes! |
In any regard, there are eight more videos like these complete. Then I may retire them. We shall see.
Thank you for watching. I do appreciate it, so much. Especially if you've been around for years. I started making Video Poetry in 2011. That's 15 years. Nothing lasts forever. And my work down through the decades has definitely been in 'periods'. The short films. The music videos. The video poems. The poetry. The short stories. The novels. Now it's fucking TikToks haha. Sign O The Times.
Here's one of those shitty disposable videos. Doctor Google. So easy to make.
Until next time,
Peace
Anthony
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The unrehearsed Dance of Love
A Valentine's Day Special
Some things can only be experienced for the first time. Even if we've done something similiar before. Even if we've been in prior relationships. New people, new dynamics to navigate. Nothing is ever truly the same twice.
Before the poem however, is this new TikTok I made.
The endless equation
Simplicity is our aim
Complexity is the game
That we ultimately navigate
With mixed results
In spite of
The easy entry procedure.
Peace and love
Is what we seek
Unravelled
In part
By our own emotional decisions
The perpetrators of our own undoing.
Now couple that
With the mis-stepped
Dance of Another
And it’s no mystery
As to why it
So often ends
In the far flung
Field of misery
From those
Initial, basic, wholesome yearnings.
1.2.24 8.15 pm
She died, unnaturally
Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, Rozelle
Sydney, New South Wales
Est. 1878.
Closed 2008
The short video tells her story
Said to be the most haunted location in Sydney.
I will do another video here soon.
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Until next time.
Peace
Anthony
The Weight of Passing Things
Hi,
I made this video 14 years ago. I came across the location where I filmed it, which is now vacant. Still. As you can see in the video, the building had already been long abandoned in 2012.
So I thought of this video, went looking and realised I had never uploaded it. I was making a few videos then, and was the primary carer of my daughter who was only 16 months then. And so it's remained unseen all this time. The poem also, has never been published before.
Now, it's for you.
All These Things We Leave Behind
A Video Poem
Watch on YouTube HERE
What did you think?
Has my style changed at all?
Text below.
Never published until now.
All these things
9/1/12
All these things
Whose time has come to pass
Whether they were ready or not
Forever suddenly has an end
Infinity has become finite
The hinges have rusted
Concrete shattered
No one to pick up the pieces
Fragments forgotten
Easier to begin again
Than to reconnect.
Yesteryear with pages Torn
Bound by faded mustard covers
The walls are coming down
Exposing interiors
Revealing frailties.
The Edges are frayed
The beautiful now Withered
Prospering weeds
Obscuring the history
Of a world owned by youth
Now decaying and no longer meaningful
Their escapades lost to time
A broken cross on the earth
Before the demise has come to pass.
It’s just another symbol
Of the way we treat
Those who do not measure up anymore
The unsubstantial, the declining
And the vulnerable
And while you turn your cheek
To more pristine prospects
Remember
That your turn is coming.
From memory, this was a case of the video being shot first and the poem was written around it. It was all done at the same time, January, 2012.
How did this make you feel?
Has my work changed over the years?
How Triple J Rig the Hottest 100
I've been meaning to write about this for years, as it's been obvious since the birth of the Internet.
Finally, I put a short video together, less than 90 secs, such is the attention span of today. 😄
