30 Monday Apr 2007
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Link: CO&CO DESIGN – sketchbook.
“Nobody draws in their sketchbook with the intention of showing the world, and that’s what makes them interesting. Here’s our slightly messy, candid and unedited likeness.”
30 Monday Apr 2007
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Link: isotopelab _ _ about.
“Through their education, few designers have the chance to fully understand the creative process. Now studied and used for many different outlets, creativity still has fundamental steps that we should not forget to obtain a maximum of results, pleasure and satisfaction.
isotopelab offers online exercices, to make your imagination flourish positively. You can choose exercices depending on the time you can invest, 30, 90 minutes, or a long term project.
For open minded people only, you can also get constructive feedback on your work from exercices’ author, exchange different points of view, see things differently and so on…isotopelab is divided in 3 sections:
• the exercices section is divided in sub sections depending on the time that you can invest. 30 minutes, 1.5 hour, and long term projects.
• in the ressources section, you will find links to different websites, books, etc.which are related to creativity, color, typography, etc.
• the galery section shows the results of all exercices.
and now, you can also participate!”
29 Sunday Apr 2007
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Link: The Guerilla Poetics Project. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the literary rifts that have separated them from another, and to reverse the unbalanced powers of opportunity, the separate and unequal station to which the laws of publishing have forced them, a decent respect to the opinions of their readership requires that they should declare the reasons for their subversive tactics. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all writers are NOT treated equal; that some are undeservedly endowed by their university or publishing house with a certain level of haughty privilege; and that in the literary world we are entitled to a Byline, Publication and pursuit of an Audience. Therefore, we, under the guise of the Guerilla Poetics Project (GPP), are determined to constructThe Tyrant’s Foe, The People’s Friend. doors in the house of publishing where none currently exist, at least for the vast majority of the poets outside of academia. We endeavor to return poetry to whom it was originally intended: the reader… “
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And we feel there is no better way to accomplish this goal than to use
the existing hierarchy and structure of the publishing world to our
advantage: by subversively hiding high-quality broadsides of
high-quality poems inside books in bookstores and libraries to be found
by unsuspecting readers. We, the Core Group of the GPP, are a loose
knit association of ten writers and publishers who have been working in
the small press for a collectively large number of years. The small
press is a publishing arena filled with magazines, journals, online
publications, ‘zines, fold and staple chapbooks, poetry, short stories
and art all made by so-called “regular folks;” from teachers to cooks,
from secretaries to strippers, from cabbies to card players. This small
press is in direct opposition to the mentality of our current cultural
climate, both in the mainstream world of slick televised “reality” and
pop music made by machines with pre-disintegrated The Tyrant’s Foe, The
People’s Friend.components, easily sold and easily reproduced ad
nauseam, to the large press of university magazines staffed by editors
publishing grant recipients, workshop geniuses and other university
magazine editor’s obscure verse designed to puzzle and stymie the very
people poetry is supposed to affect most. We here at the GPP believe
that poetry is about the human condition. We believe poetry is a hoarse
cry “against the dying of the light.” We believe that art in its finest
expression is the pure distillation of what it means to be human and
alive, suffering and dancing up to the edge of the grave. And finally,
we believe poetry is about communication: the writer to reader sure,
but more importantly, the human to another mortal human.
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: Julien Bench Toilet by Troy Adams Design.
“This is a first. Take a look at the Julien Bench Toilet by Troy Adams Design. It’s a stainless steel bench with a built-in toilet and a sliding wood panel that covers the fixture when it’s not in use.
The result is a very furniture-looking toilet that’s working undercover. The idea is space-saving because the wooden panel can be used as a bathroom bench when the toilet’s not in use.”
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: Hatch: The Design Public® Blog » Blog Archive » On Tackiness and Anti-Depressive Living.
“Have you picked up any objects for anti-depressive living lately? If so, please share them with our flickr group! Recently I could not resist this ram who is packing much back. While he’s too tall for most of my shelves, he solved the problem of the floppy Ian McHarg book falling over all the time, and I like that his big head doesn’t fit.” -hatch
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: One Million Footnotes.
“Prospectus
Footnotes to a nonexistent book, a series of observations, a novel without the plot, the autobiography of an imagination, linked poetry of the everyday world, an impossible goal.”
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: Suprematism – Non-Objective Art – Cecil Touchon – Non-Objective Collage Poetry.
“Suprematist Non-Objective Collage Poetry
New Collages by Cecil TouchonCecil Touchon explores the boundaries between art and poetry in these elegant and intimate papiers colles composed of bits of lettering and the empty spaces between them. Stripped of literary meaning, these works rely on composition, rhythm and visual movement to convey their meaning which is ambiguous and intuitive.
These works are constructed from distressed street posters that have been carefully edited into inlayed bits of printed matter creating passages that move from figure to ground and then reverse back to figure through gentle curves, irregular grids and subtle shading techniques. Snippets of lettering almost become recognizable letters or perhap proposals for a new poetic alphabet but always slip back into forms and spaces creating enigmatic and open, simultaneously plausible interpretations.”
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: about « Other Clutter.
“Jenny Sampirisi is a Toronto poet and fiction writer. She recently completed her masters in Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. Currently, she’s the publisher relations coordinator for the SCREAM literary festival and is hard at work in the margins of a manuscript. Her creative work has been published in Qwerty, Carousel, Misunderstandings Magazine, Filling Station, existere, dANDelion & The Windsor ReView.”
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: Public Pages.
“Jos Smith was born just outside Canterbury in Kent where he first began writing, drawing on the landscape of the North Downs. In 2005 he situated a number of large poems on sign-boards along the North Downs Way in an exhibition funded by the Arts Council and the Kentish Stour Countyside Project, from which these images are taken. He studied English at the University of Nottingham and has continued into postgraduate study, looking at the ways in which contemporary poetry is addressing the ecological crisis. He continues to edeavour to write poetry that breaches the lines between subject and object, landscape and poetic form, environment and the printed page.”
27 Friday Apr 2007
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Link: Foam:e homepage.
“to open or enter upon
to set oneself
to be at the point
to do the first or starting part”
