Literature in Form of Stickers
It is not a secret that today web technologies suggest us more and more ways of replicating any content. One can not only copy and paste a text or any other media material but also create a video or an image based on a text, a movie that consists of images, a musical composition based on a painting, we may create maps, graphs, dictionaries, questionnaires and tests, annotations, adaptations of different genres but all around the same story. It seems that the list of ways how to give a new form to the old content could be limited only by your imagination.
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| Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet with Horatio, 1839 |
Recently I was thinking about works of literary art that provoke an incredible number of replications. For example, once the Shakespeare's Hamlet was written at the beginning of 17th century, it obviously had a lot of theatrical interpretations. The play was translated in more than 75 languages. We have the masterpieces of Eugène Delacroix and John Millais (and many other artists) dedicated to Hamlet. We also have soviet, finnish and korean movies of Hamlet. We have Tchaikovsky's "Hamlet, Fantasy-Overture Op.67". There is also a Digital edition of Hamlet. Audiobooks, character maps, schemes of plot, memes and what not!
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| character graph |
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character map |
Now we face up with an ocean of forms of the same concept. And it seems that the ocean can not stop growing. Today one can notice a new popular wave of using stickers predominantly thanks to Telegram messenger. It is not just a list of standard stickers, but it is a full pack that one can create by himself or herself. So why don't we cite literature with stickers?
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| Click to Add a Sticker_Pack |
While looking for a nice tool for making stickers, I have discovered a perfect online app MyBrush for this purpose. Honestly speaking, to my mind, procrastination could be successfully advocated when it is connected with creativity. Thus, I decided to invest a little bit of time into the project of creating a pack of literary stickers for Telegram. Now everyone may even enjoy a brief tutorial about the process of making stickers in MyBrush.
One may say that something is rotten in the state of Denmark but I believe that it depends on the point of view. It seems to me that this kind of tools make us more active readers. Roland Barthes would call it "initiative reading" as Hamlet becomes a "writerly text", a work of literature that turns a reader into a writer, namely into a creator of stickers or a creator of any other form of Hamlet. By the way, there is a broadly mentioned reference that The Lion King animated story was influenced by Shakespeare's Hamlet, so one may notice that Elton John's music for the song I Just Can't Wait to Be King covered by Chartiers Houston Music is used as a background sound for the video. Hyper-referential madness!
To sum it up:
Enjoy creating stickers with MyBrush
Have fun with sticker pack lit_madness
Listen to energetic Chartiers Houston Music
