Benjamin Penguin
Penguin's new front cover for Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Comments: 0
Image Fulgurator
'The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
In other words, with the Fulgurator it is possible to have a lasting effect on those kinds of individual moments and events that become accessible to the masses only because they are preserved photographically.
In this context the Fulgurator represents a manipulation of visual reality and so targets the very fabric of media memory.'
Comments: 0
Congratulations
To James Davies and Alex Middleton, who brought Kaj Louis Middleton into the world today. X
Comments: 0
E·ratio Editions
'E·ratio Editions, a series of elegantly produced, quick loading e-chaps, is reading for poetry, innovative narrative prose and recollection and critical and theoretical essays.'
Comments: 0
otoliths
'The intention is for Otoliths to appear quarterly, to contain a variety of what can be loosely described as e-things, that is, anything that can be translated (visually at this stage) to an electronic platform. If it moves, we won't shoot at it.'
Comments: 0
William James Austin
'several hundred xeroxers
were employed
and soon the scientific world
rattled the universe
darker than africa
as it was contained
in the report
in their wagging hands'
Comments: 0
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry
Steve Evans has created an inward spiral of documentation, lists and more lists of his reading life, then pushed in outward shards forming, when the path is traced like a turtle on an Acorn, a web.
Comments: 0
Vispo
Jim Andrews:
'Walt Whitman wrote one book: Leaves of Grass. He changed it throughout his life. Vispo.com is my 'book'. And it isn't a book at all but, hopefully, something that you can experience as many times as you like and find different things each time--very different, and of a new and ongoing life in writing/art/sound/programming.'
There are fascinating design choices made for many poetry sites. While the blog is understandably the most dominant form, there is a subset of intentionally backward-looking, anachronistic websites. Vispo is a good example, as is Jodi. Harking back 10 or 15 years in web design terms is the equivalent of 10 or 15 decades in terms of printing technologies. In fact, it makes me wonder how important 'prettiness' is going to be in terms of making online publishing successful. Perhaps text on screen will only reach a tipping point when Jonathan Ive has crafted us new eyes out of polyester twine and sports socks.
Comments: 2
radiOM
'Other Minds (based in San Francisco) welcomes you to radiOM[ray-dee-om].org — the website that brings you the sounds of revelationary new music and the voices of the revelationists themselves.
Our offerings include interviews with some of the most influential composers of our time including Lou Harrison, Brian Eno, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, György Ligeti, and Anthony Braxton.
We also offer concerts, sound poetry performances, lectures and documentaries in classical music, jazz, experimental music and other forms.
The material you will find here is gleaned from thousands of hours of audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995), and concerts and talks produced by Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005).
We urge you to search our site often as new programs are added each month. Use of this site is free, but for unlimited access to the material registration is required.'
Sign-up take two and one half minutes and is well worth it.
Comments: 0
Shampoo
The best way to Shampoo is to randomly click names and see if you find something you like. Any kind of methodical approach is bound to lead to a classic wheat/chaff scenario. All the people can't like all things all of the time, but some of the people can like some of the things, some of the time. I think Barack Obama said that.
Comments: 0