I was sent a cool little video that’s bit of a different take on the traditional palindrome. Instead of the usual Madam, I’m Adam letter by letter technical palindrome, this 1 minute 44 second video is palindromic line by line. It takes the idea of word-order palindromes to another level with whole lines getting reversed here.
While listening, it’s even more effective and impressive to read along as the words scroll by. I liked not trying to think ahead, or read ahead; trying not to imagine what the opposite direction would be like as it was scrolling forward. It made it that much better to then see it unfold backwards later.
This video was submitted to the AARP contest ‘u@50’. Entrants were asked to describe their vision of the future; what life would be like by the time they turned 50, all in less than 2 minutes. Jonathan Reed, a 20-something native of Atlanta, and a student at Columbia College in Chicago, wrote “Lost Generation.” He won 2nd place for his take on his generation’s future. I can’t imagine what must have taken 1st place – something to look for.
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I have learned since that Reed was inspired by an Argentinean political advertisement called “The Truth.” Same format and definite similarities, but personally I prefer Reed’s transition as he sets up the reverse read. Just seems to fit better, and set up what is to come when you hear the poem go in the opposite direction. Here’s to the definitely Not Lost Generation!
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This is very interesting. It reminds me of one of the sentences my mother used when teaching students the importance of proper punctuation. She would first write the sentence on the board using no punctuation and then have a couple of students read it aloud. They of course would use voice inflection as if there had been punctuation.
The sentence without punctuation is: Woman without her man is nothing.
Boys had a tendency to read this as if the punctuation were: Woman, without her man, is nothing.
Girls often read it as if the punctuation were: Woman, without her, man is nothing.
Since the meaning, as with your video, changes to the exact opposite it made the desired impact on her students.
I really liked your posted video.
Thanks