You’re not a Snowman, you’re a Snowchicken, Boo!

[teaberryblue]

I got up this morning and came downstairs to discover that my mother was out in the snow.  “What is she doing?” I asked my father. “Building a snowman.”

“I wouldn’t say that,” said my father.

That is because she was building this:

So that is pretty awesome!

Also, I wanted to share something that my friend serpentpixie made.  She made a video for her creative writing class that is just incredibly poetic and poignant and I love it. It is really inspiring me to think about ways I think about writing and multimedia.  Her LJ is mostly friends-only but she gave me permission to re-post the video so I could share it with you all!  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Comments

snowchicken!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT that is a damn good snow chicken!!

Re: snowchicken!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

My mom is amazing at this. When I was a kid, we had snow Smurfs, snow Cabbage Patch Kids, Snow Strawberry Shortcake, snow dinosaurs, and a few years ago we did a Snow Spongebob,but he fell down before I got a picture.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Your mom is awesome. There's a kids book in Snow Chicken. You should write it.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

She really is! And that is an amazing idea. I just told my mom. I am trying to think of how that would work without being too much like other stories about snow-creatures!

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

It could be about a lost snow chicken trying to find its flock instead of any reference to magic or melting.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Ah, man! I love that. That's very sweet and adorable. Oh, question! Your main character in DHS, how long is her hair? I started drawing her before and then realized I didn't know!

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Figure shoulder length. Long enough to need keeping out of her face (it's a tic she seems determined to display) but not so long as to be Mary Sue'ish.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks!

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Awesome chicken is awesome!

But that video made me tear up. Seriously. So poetic. So poignant. Every line just perfect.

I feel moved. Touched. As if I had lost something I never quite managed to remember.

But I do remember the smell of home.

Thank you so much for posting this Tea, and tell your friend that it was AWESOME.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

serpentpixie is on my friendslist so I hope she will see your nice comments.

And the chicken is awesome! I love my mommy.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

That's such a nice comment - thank you :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

And just finished watching the video. I know what you mean about making you rethink the relationship between writing and multimedia, it's like a poem which seemlessly integrates images as lines of the poem.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the pictures are part of the story. It doesn't hurt that it's well-written, but I feel like the pacing and music and images just make it a different thing completely.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you said that - I was so very cynical about whether it'd work properly, so I'm glad that people 'get it' as it were :)

Visual Poetry

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah no I think it worked excellently (: It's literally like a visual poem, which is something I've never heard of before!

[evilwildlex.livejournal.com]

that is one very impressive snow chicken. ^_~

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

It is! It is laying snow eggs that will hatch snow chicks.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Sorry for butting in here, but that'd be the best children's book EVER.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Oooh maybe I will consider this in light of karnythia's suggestions.

[batchix.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

also thank you for the ballooooons~ <3

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

You are welcome! And it is awesome!

[oneonthefence.livejournal.com]

That is so brilliantly done. Holy shit.

Snow chicken for the win!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. Of course, I've seen slideshows with words set to music, but this sort of transcends that.

And I do like me some snow chicken.

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Snow chicken is awesome!

And the video...poignant. I love the music choice.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I do, too. When I was watching it, my mom asked me what I was listening to.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Haha, I think you'd think less of me if you knew where I got it from though - it's from the Twilight soundtrack :D

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, no, that's cool, it's not the music's fault!

[spiralstairs.livejournal.com]

That is the best snow creature I've ever seen and it is even more awesome because it is a chicken. :D

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I do think the chicken part really raises it up in status from merely awesome to super awesome.

[kutiechick.livejournal.com]

THAT IS A FANTASTIC SNOW CHICKEN!!! I love, love, love it! How much snow did you guys end up getting up there?

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

We got about eight inches total,but most of it melted today. There were actually 20 inches in the city!

[stoopid-silly.livejournal.com]

AWESOME SNOWCHICKEN! This makes me sad about getting almost no snow this winters, no snowchickens for me.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm sorry! This is the first time this winter we've had good packing snow, although it's the third time we've had a nice good blanket of it. But there is enough snowchicken for everyone!

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, that's incredible!! Coming from someone who has never yet managed more than a snow -lump- WOW!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

My mother has been doing snow sculptures since I was a kid-- there's been Strawberry Shortcake, Smurfs, ET, a Cabbage Patch Kid, dinosaurs, football players-- a few years ago we built Spongebob Squarepants but he fell down before we got a photo.

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

That's incredible :) What a skill! I've never seen any amazing snow sculptures before the snowchicken. But I have seen epic sandcastles and sculptures and they just amaze me. I wish I could do something like that!

[negativeneve.livejournal.com]

Love the snow chicken.

Love the video. It's fabulous.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I love the snow chicken too! My mommy is the best.

[loputon.livejournal.com]

The snow chicken is absolutely wonderful :)

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

It really is!

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

I want the chicken. Does it have an actual name?

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Umm, there is only one thing I call chickens and that is Pepita. Because that is the name of my chicken-fairy-princess roleplaying character.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

That snow chicken is great!

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Your mom = WIN!

What a beautiful video. I felt inspired after watching it.

[drippedonpaper.livejournal.com]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the snow chicken. How great is that!?:)