with auto-tweening and auto-changing everything (fonts videos, phrases) plus extensive user control (up-down keys toggling shifts in size and left-right changes in phrases): a full grid of folder icons. Auto-randomize audio/video/text/all modes. An audio switching bay (the entire screen flips - visible in final 2m15s of the video above).
Capacity to play with/out words, audio, video: Thoems was a sensual aberration, a monolith testament to the manic documenting fever of a mid-life pessimist confronting the vast pacific similitude of Vancouver, from it's steamy harbors to its sprawling drug-infested alleys, Thoems meditated on all of it.
And Thoems also includes 'rare' (hah) footage of extensive handheld experiments with a lot of aloe vera and ink and soy sauce suspended inside a slick-swaying jar by the windows of a warehouse.
In Thoems there are poems about psychosis, reveries of attainment, bland notes about the monotony of time, and moments of immersion into the sea.
Unfortunately I never documented Thoems until now after the death of Flash. So robust was Thoems, so imposing was its presence, and so implacable and impeccable was its style, I never doubted it would fail. Nor did I suspect that the EOL (End of Life) of Flash would involve not just simply removing life support, but actively killing it: poison-pilling the plug-in in each browser so they will never work. Unfortunately Thoems really needed a browser to flourish because (like Etay and Maerd) Thoems was completely dynamically dependent on loading in files randomly on the fly, making selections, parsing lists, calling php files (to read folders), and somewhere in-between the death of Flash and the upgrades in PHP, I've partially lost the capacity to resuscitate it, except for a wheezing, slow-start somewhat-broken simulacrum of it's semi-infinite interactive glory.
Long live Thoems (2007-2021) R.I.P.
Try the work yourself :
Flash version (dead)