Birthday Week Reminiscing - just a few things:
- from Mikael Co's Facebook link-share is the very inspiring UNPhotographable, which reminded me of my own Ink Polaroids, itself inspired by Stuart David's project of the same name. As far as I know, David coined the term, even put out a zine called "Ink Polaroids" which was a collection of stuff he wrote while he was still playing bass for Belle & Sebastian. Here are more ink polaroids written by people across the net. My own collection got me into my first UP workshop, along with this Cubao story.
- I'm walking around Cubao again, writing about it again, seeing regular online publication in the POC, the first of which is here. It always feels good, walking-writing around Cubao, although I haven't done it in a while, and with the Heat Wave, I don't really know how it'll be like between 12 noon and 3PM, which is how I'm skedding it. I'm going out today, 9 March Tuesday, to walk Shopwise. The stuff I've been writing/thinking about Cubao has been generally critiques of Consumerist/Commodity Culture, our modern malaise, and Shopwise is the best place for that sort of discourse, but I think I'll toss in a few new ink polaroids into it just for the sake of.
- Kael's posting of UNPhotographable reminded me of the importance of texture and detailing in writing, and how to capture those things convincingly - from life - in the least number of words possible. More people should take ink polaroids. Maybe if people sent me enough ink polaroids, I'd make a zine out of them. It's an underused form.
- In my search for underused forms and processes, I found this and this, and this reminded me of this.
- Rocket Kapre interviewed me for the latest roundtable discussion, this time about Fiction without Speculation. As usual, I talked about art.
- Also: I feel great that I'm fulfilling a promise I made to myself last January, to write a generous amount of SpecFic texts that owe more to formal playfulness and clever writing processes than to the Realist mode of writing. I started (and finished) *snip* last month, which was my bid to write a horror story which I wanted to do in hypertext, and just last week I finished ITEM MITE EMIT TIME, which was my first novel ever, and it's scifi, and written in an assemblage of fragmentary language. Both were written either under a week or a little over a week: three days for *snip*, eight days for ITEM.
Next target text is a fantasy picture novel a la Frans Masereel that I may or may not be doing in collab with an artist more adept with sequential art than I ever will be. We'll see. It's a story I've been wanting to tell since 2003. Hopefully done in a week, too. We'll see.
- from Mikael Co's Facebook link-share is the very inspiring UNPhotographable, which reminded me of my own Ink Polaroids, itself inspired by Stuart David's project of the same name. As far as I know, David coined the term, even put out a zine called "Ink Polaroids" which was a collection of stuff he wrote while he was still playing bass for Belle & Sebastian. Here are more ink polaroids written by people across the net. My own collection got me into my first UP workshop, along with this Cubao story.
- I'm walking around Cubao again, writing about it again, seeing regular online publication in the POC, the first of which is here. It always feels good, walking-writing around Cubao, although I haven't done it in a while, and with the Heat Wave, I don't really know how it'll be like between 12 noon and 3PM, which is how I'm skedding it. I'm going out today, 9 March Tuesday, to walk Shopwise. The stuff I've been writing/thinking about Cubao has been generally critiques of Consumerist/Commodity Culture, our modern malaise, and Shopwise is the best place for that sort of discourse, but I think I'll toss in a few new ink polaroids into it just for the sake of.
- Kael's posting of UNPhotographable reminded me of the importance of texture and detailing in writing, and how to capture those things convincingly - from life - in the least number of words possible. More people should take ink polaroids. Maybe if people sent me enough ink polaroids, I'd make a zine out of them. It's an underused form.
- In my search for underused forms and processes, I found this and this, and this reminded me of this.
- Rocket Kapre interviewed me for the latest roundtable discussion, this time about Fiction without Speculation. As usual, I talked about art.
- Also: I feel great that I'm fulfilling a promise I made to myself last January, to write a generous amount of SpecFic texts that owe more to formal playfulness and clever writing processes than to the Realist mode of writing. I started (and finished) *snip* last month, which was my bid to write a horror story which I wanted to do in hypertext, and just last week I finished ITEM MITE EMIT TIME, which was my first novel ever, and it's scifi, and written in an assemblage of fragmentary language. Both were written either under a week or a little over a week: three days for *snip*, eight days for ITEM.
Next target text is a fantasy picture novel a la Frans Masereel that I may or may not be doing in collab with an artist more adept with sequential art than I ever will be. We'll see. It's a story I've been wanting to tell since 2003. Hopefully done in a week, too. We'll see.
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