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Gertrude Stein vs. Mick Jagger Round 2

Dylan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:41:28 +0000

I think I found a Gertrude Stein poem about Mick Jagger. It’s called “Negligible Old Star“.

Records of Existence

Dylan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:43:10 +0000

Records of Existence is an artist run label of underground independent artists. We specialize in doing limited edition Hand-Printed and Hand-Assembled releases to make the release as unique as the artists. The new release, “Accordion” was composed by my friend … Continue reading →

Ten Reasons Why I (don’t really) Love Lists

Dylan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:55:47 +0000

With a list, you can quickly fill up the page without having to actually write very much. It's kind of like using a really big typeface to get out of writing a long book report. Continue reading →

Mick Jagger vs. Gertrude Stein, Round One

Dylan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:23:32 +0000

I wrote a poem that combines the lyrics of Mick Jagger with the verse of Gertrude Stein. Continue reading →

AAAARG.ORG [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:32:38 PDT

AAAARG is a conversation platform - at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal. AAAARG was created with the intention of developing critical discourse outside of an institutional framework. But rather than thinking of it like a new building, imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.

Writing Encounters | Curating the encounter between writing and performance | writingencounters.org - A Perverse Library | 2010-09-05 [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:07:06 PDT

the exhibition will be the first of its kind in the UK, and will show works by a generation of artists who have sought a radical reconsideration of the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

49.1757: Figurine ("Okimono") of a Lion with a Ball by Anonymous (Japanese) [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:35:53 PDT

A Roundup of Constrained Writing on the Web [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:45:13 PDT

The interest in hypertextuality, combinative engines, and automatic production of texts by computers always appeared obvious for Oulipians - members of The Workshop for Potential Literature - all writers of literatures with constraints. If, at the beginning, they did not have the standard hardware to carry out their projects, they traced the way, proposing examples, assembling specifications, producing working schemes so that these projects could exist potentially.

The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler-Henry [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:57:36 PDT

The Tapeworm Foundry is a single unpunctuated sentence of proposals that lists a variety avant-garde projects linked only by the seemingly innocuous, but progressively more imperative-sounding, "andor."

Experimental Women in Flux [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:22 PDT

Experimental works by women that form part of the newly acquired Silverman Fluxus Collection Reference Library. With a focus on artists’ books, event scores, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and examples of the alternative press, the exhibition includes publications by Alison Knowles, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Yoko Ono, Dorothy Iannone, and others.

Not Content: Performance 2 [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:20:12 PDT

Performance 2 represented a sort of culmination of three text-based, visual, conceptual writing projects that developed within the gallery space, all with the input of visitors.

Not Content [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:18:42 PDT

Not Content is a series of text projects curated by Les Figues Press at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Not Content investigates the ways in which language functions within public and private spheres and within the tenuous and transitory space between these real and imagined realms.

is experimental fiction making a comeback? [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:47:43 PDT

Perhaps it's time to turn experimental: in The Observer 'William Skidelsky looks at the 'resurgence of literary experimentation', in Experimental fiction: is it making a comeback ?

AVANT Podcast of Avant-Garde Music from Spain [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:30:58 PDT

From the most academic electoacoustics to industrial music, from radiophonic art to post-no-wave improvisation, AVANT retraces some of the key moments of the Spain's musical avant-garde, scarcely documented until now.

experimental comics: about the concrete comics anthology [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:26:48 PDT

An ongoing project to create an anthology of "concrete comics", which would be analogical to what can define concrete music or concrete poetry.

50 Ways to Retell a Story: Cinderella [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:21:05 PDT

The book is based on the work of OULIPO, a group of writers and mathematicians who believe that constraints lead to greater creativity. The authors took the traditional tale Cinderella, and re-wrote it, in half a hundred ways…as a lipogram –without the letter ‘O’; a haiku, a recipe, a blog, a limerick, a letter of complaint …. and 43 other versions. The book illustrates the different ways language and form can bring fresh new approaches to the same story ingredients.

Paper Monument Issue 2 | You’re Human Like the Rest of Them* [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:11:38 PDT

‘The staggering number of creative-class 20-year-olds on the L train with full-sleeve tattoos should have indicated to us that we’d finally, inevitably, overextended ourselves.’
Jason Murison, ‘Black Bleeds Red: On the Art Market’s Nervous Breakdown’, Paper Monument, issue three, 2010

Basquiat and the Six Uses of Space [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:57 PDT

This essay is a rumination on the sources of creativity—where and how do writers, artists, musicians, creators in all media find the spark of inspiration?

Spoken Word at Singers in Baltimore

Dylan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:10:11 +0000

I was the featured poet for !SPEAK YOUR PIECE! on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Here are some ephemera from the show. Continue reading →

Altered Text

Dylan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:36:28 +0000

I'll call it altered text, although for the thing I have in mind there are actually many things, many names, from many times and places. My notion of "destroyed text" is somewhat unique, but not really. I'll show you some examples of a family ideas I think the idea is descended from. I'll try to give you explanations, citations and examples for each. Continue reading →

The Desktop Wallpaper Project [del.icio.us]

dylan_k — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:51:30 PDT

Lots of awesome images, from all sorts of designers and artists. Every week or so, there's something new for you to make into your desktop wallpaper, for your computer, laptop or portable.

Hallway carpet [Flickr]

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Exit Door [Flickr]

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Elevator [Flickr]

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Yellow Wallpaper [Flickr]

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Ceiling [Flickr]

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Table and chairs [Flickr]

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2009

Dylan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:13:13 +0000

Tonight it is December 30, 2009. It is this time of year when it is customary to write long letters to distant family and acquaintances, because it is cold outside and there’s nothing better to do. Cabin fever sets in, … Continue reading →

Photos from my final days at the Copycat [Flickr]

dylan_k — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:02:19 PST

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