Ok so here is one rough concept of Hevn and Urth

(I will end up doing many, so constructive critisism is appreciated)

The rhyming creation myth by wirrow and Metaphorest.  I tweaked the words just a little, and my draft of the text is resourced below.  And here I recorded a reading of it.  There's already been lots of great readings of this poem, and I hope there are more to come.  I think it might be cool to mix a grand multitude of voices together to tell this story.

The next thing that probably ought to happen is for visual artists to start drawing specific parts.  Pick a stanza you like, or even just one line and turn it into any sort of image.  Maybe pretty soon we could have a bit of a storybook slideshow going, which is usually an important step in big animation projects.

From a painting I did...just multiplied the little guys and messed with colors to create a swarm of lovely monarchs. I thought it could be used in the creation myth illustrations somehow

"meadows stretched and liquefied / and poured into the ocean / whose waves formed winged beasts that leapt / and fluttered into motion" - a new hevn.

I tried to include as many REsources as I could. :) Wrote a little something about each one viewed; and in most cases, it had something to do with the original video.

Here's what was said:

"This world is pretty big,

If you’re looking for inspiration

Sit back, grab a beer

And travel to Dublin, Ireland.

Or make your way to New York City and create the best of memories.

You can learn patience and strength on trains in Tokyo

Slug a bug in Texas and meet ugly ducklings

Take in someone elses idea of heaven in Scotland

Or listen to tiny stories in Brussels

You can see the night lit up in Shangahai

Cuddle a train stranger in Chicago

And maybe even find out who you are on the streets of London

You can smoke a doobie in Amsterdam, or gaze at the swans instead.

If you don’t like swans, you can live a fast life in Chile

Or go on a scenic bike ride in Minneapolis

If you go by road in an English Countryside, it’s a beautiful journey

Or you can road trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to San Diego, California

…and get kicked out of a few bars on the way.

Get your feet wet in Australia

Leave your heart in Boston, Massachusetts

View Pittsburgh from the hills

Or Barcelona from the skies.

Spend your summer in Budapest

Listen to the rain in Ukraine

Tilt shift the UK

Time lapse Philadelphia

Venezuela, Vancouver, Ontario, Italy, Singapore, Honolulu, Croatia, Paris, Virginia, Berlin…

And you can meet me in Detroit, MI

No matter where you are

Or who you decide to be…

Whether you look up at the stars

Or wish upon the city lights

There’s a piece of you where you live

And a piece of where you live, inside of you."

"so with a song and dance 
a tiny story came to be
a star that lit their eyes up
and enabled them to see."

Fun fact - apparently y'all love fetuses! (Fetii? Either way sounds wrong.) So since I got the okay from the community and the thumbs up from Wirrow, I decided to go ahead and explore the concept further. Here's an itty-bitty story being born. Looks a little less human, I think. I have this larger and in black and white for when we actually will need to use it, but for posting purposes, I like giving things a little color.

Also, anyone who knows how to use Adobe Flash to animate this and does is my hero. I will pretty much throw a ticker-tape parade in your honor.

i'm taking pictures again. things are looking up again.