Tapissary Talk

Various subjects and illustrated stories are written and spoken in the invented language of glyphic script called Tapissary. [Episodes appear twice monthly].

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Episode 9 "The Queen's Croquet Ground, Part Two"

August 16, 2009 Alice in Wonderland "The Queen's Croquet Ground" Part Two. This film continues a chapter from "Alice In Wonderland". Lewis Carroll's original English text is translated into the invented language of Tapissary. The glyphic script of that language has various forms. The style used here is read from right to left, and from the base support of a phrase to its top. The phrasal structure builds up like a vine growing against a trellis. In the art style, a whole phrase is composed as a ...

Aug 16, 2009

Episode 8 "Molière"

I had major problems with a new computer this month, so Alice in Wonderland is still on hold. I’m presenting this short episode to take the Aug 1 slot. I’m going to read you an expression that you may have heard before. First I’ll read it in the original French, then I’ll follow up with the English translation: ‘Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger’. This means: ‘One must eat to live, and not live to eat’. It was written by Molière for his play called ‘L’Avare’. He wrote it in...

Aug 01, 2009

Episode 7 "Preview"

Episode 7 “A Preview” July 16, 2009 This week, I’m giving a preview of the upcoming episode which will be a continuation of Chapter 7 from Alice in Wonderland. Because I’m adding some animation to that entry, it is taking longer than the alloted 2 weeks to construct. So I’m filling in with a preview for this week, which gives me the opportunity to explain about ‘poetic’ script, and animation. Episode 8 with Alice in Wonderland is slated for Aug. 1, 2009.

Jul 16, 2009

Episode 6 "Yit Cwanoson Croquet Texxa"

Episode 6: "The Queen's Croquet Ground" Part IEpizod 6: "Yit Cwanoson Croquet Texxa" Meros I This week's episode begins chapter 7 in the novel 'Alice in Wonderland', translated into Tapissary. The entire film is spoken in Tapissary with English subtitles.

Jul 01, 2009

Episode 5: "The Days of the Week"

This week, I’ve written some phrases about the days of the week in Tapissary’s ‘Sunrise’ style. A frequently used Art text style (called the ‘Sunrise’ style) in Tapissary is generally written from right-to-left as in Hebrew or Arabic. Reading right-to-left is called the ‘sunrise’ mode because your eyes travel from the east margin of a page to the west margin. Many of the çelloglyphs in sunrise mode have elongated shapes that differ from the forms in the ‘sunset’ mode (written from left-to-right ...

Jun 15, 2009

Episode 4: "La Baroc Oshianno"

June 1, 2009 Episode 4: The Baroque Ocean (Lesson on the plural) In episode 3 (The Alligator Captain), there was mention of the Baroque Ocean (Baroc Oshianno). In this episode, I take you right to the ‘sea floor’. The formation and pronunciation of the plural is explained in the second half of the film. Spoken Tapissary is subtitled in English. Following is the text in romanized Tapaissary. You can follow along as you watch the video. Ydrou sö prévi épizod y’Tapissary Tawwi, wi fastas yit vwaou ...

Jun 02, 2009

Episode 3 "The Alligator Captain"

Episode 3: The Captain Alligator. May 16, 2009 In this week’s episode, I’m bringing PART ONE of Captain Alligator’s adventures. Animation accompanies the story, and a red arrow helps you follow the Tapissary. The action begins in the village of Ventiçello which is lapped by the shores of the Baroque Ocean.

May 16, 2009

Episode 2 "Spaghetti"

Episode 2: “How to Eat Spaghetti” In this week’s snippet, Tweeter, my finicky parrot rejects a bowl of spaghetti. But this loss of appetite does not override a colorful lesson in grammar. The command form , the numbers from 1 to 5 , and some help with pronunciation are included in this segment. Duration: 12 minutes.

Apr 29, 2009

Episode 1 "Alice in Wonderland"

In this episode, I’m reading the beginning paragraphs in chapter one “Down the Rabbit Hole” from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Five Tapissary vocabulary words are introduced ( pictures, conversations, watch, end, come ), and you will see how each fits into the context of a sentence in the second part of this video podcast. I made the artwork by quickly sculpting clay figurines, photographing them, then adding features such as faces, hands, and backgrounds using Photoshop. I made the mus...

Apr 16, 2009

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