“Small town Southern man”, “Rock with you baby”, “Thank God for the radio”, “Honky Tonky Heart”, “Never sail forever again”, “I ride a horse” (series of computer generated “turtle graphics” drawings based on code transcribed from line dances in a code calligraphy exercise booklet)
There was line dancing everywhere we went, on a boat, on a ship in the ocean, in the fields and on a horse farm in Germany. Watching the line dancers move, patterns and structures emerged. We recorded those dances on video, looked at the footage and transcribed the moves of a dancer in a notebook. Using these transcriptions we adapted the transcriptions into the logo language which interpreted these transcriptions and created drawings based on our transcriptions = instructions.
talkto "leftft penup left 90 forward 4 right 90 talkto "rightft penup right 90 forward 4 left 90 pendown right 90 forward 10 left 90 talkto "leftft pendown setcolor 10 forward 25 talkto "rightft back 5 talkto "leftft back 50 right 90 forward 10 left 90 talkto "rightft back 10 repeat 20 [ back 1 right 2] talkto "leftft repeat 5 [ forward 1 left 2] talkto "rightft n forward 50 talkto "leftft n forward 20 talkto "rightft forward 10 repeat 5 [ forward 1 right 2] talkto "leftft forward 50 talkto "rightft repeat 5 [ forward 1 left 2] n talkto "leftft back 50 talkto "rightft back 15 talkto "leftft back 20 talkto "rightft back 60 repeat 5 [ back 1 right 2] talkto "leftft nw forward 5 talkto "rightft ne forward 5 n forward 40 repeat 18 [ forward 1 left 5] w forward 2 talkto "leftft n forward 10 w forward 5 talkto "rightft s back 30 talkto "leftft repeat 15 [ back 1 left 3] s back 60 repeat 15 [ back 1 left 3] talkto "rightft s back 2 forward 2 talkto "leftft repeat 15 [ forward 1 right 3] s forward 60 repeat 15 [ forward 1 right 3]
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