American actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has once again taken to Facebook to crowdsource for a new project of his.
"Puisi"
Gordon-Levitt, who is best known for starring in movies like "Inception", "500 Days of Summer", "Don Jon", and "Looper", asked for contributions in a post on Aug. 11.
In the post, he asked for Malay-speakers to submit recordings of themselves saying the word "poetry" in the language.
The call for recordings are part of an international project called Poetry Around The World, where people across the globe are invited to say the word "poetry" in their native language.
This is the project description:
"I wanted to start a project where we can collect poetry written in many different languages and see what larger projects they might spark. Maybe community members who are multi-lingual can eventually translate a few poems, and we can see how they evolve and change in the process."
Thus far, 1,265 recordings have been submitted to the platform, with languages ranging from Tagalog to Mandarin to Spanish.
Numerous recordings of the word "puisi", Malay for "poetry", have been submitted as well.
Many of these might sound pretty professional.
And then there's this.
Nice.
Previous crowdsourcing post went viral
In a separate post, Gordon-Levitt invited Malaysians to collaborate with him for music for his upcoming movie "Project Power".
Gordon-Levitt previously crowdsourced for one-sentence story contributions as well.
Incidentally, he shared a photo of a Singaporean woman dancing in the rain in his appeal on Facebook, and the post subsequently went viral.
As a result, a large proportion of the story contributions were written in a Singapore context as well.
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