03 June 2011

How Tweet It Is

A Grey Area has joined/started/been assimilated by Twitter (whatever it is you kids-of-today do with it). This happened for business reasons and I won’t go into it other than to say that I’m there now and it rankles with me a little.

For old people like me, Twitter represents everything that is wrong with the world, so I’ve been trying to think of ways to subvert it a little, without actually tweeting about it.

Idea number One

  • Convert a black and white picture into 140 ‘pixels’ per line.
  • Each pixel is given an “O” for black, or a space for white
  • Tweet it line by line over two years
  • Only someone with the patience to collect all the lines in the right order, print them out in poster format and stand back and squint, gets to see the “art”
  • The picture will be of something really good, like a Chihuahua in a toupee
  • First reader to identify the contents of the image, wins a really good prize, like a slightly used toupee

Idea number Two

  • Tweet jokes backwards
  • Someone reading in order gets a series of intriguing non sequiturs
  • Someone reading down a timeline gets a joke
  • I get to clean out some unused material

Idea number Three

  • Start an epic poem that begins with “We all remember when Ashton Kutcher died”
  • Add a line daily until
  • It actually happens

Idea number Four

  • Take the last three tweets from someone famous
  • Start an imaginary dialogue... wait, I gotta go, I have to know what Elizabeth Hurley's having for breakfast


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