“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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