tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91022599591463396162024-02-21T19:23:00.540-08:00A Sleepless Night (Standing)Welcome home, my drill bit hatchings.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-56478527469493144432008-10-17T02:13:00.000-07:002008-11-23T20:37:21.839-08:00Experimental writing is only private action.This title sums up a mainstremist (?) prejudice and shallow attitude toward writing that interrogates the formal arrangement of language. I speak to this as not a new phenomenon or attitude but as an observation directly relating to my own current practice as a young writer.<br /><br />I recently developed a piece of writing that experimented with sentence formation for Sam Rountree-Williams solo exhibition currently showing at Newcall Gallery. I had expressed doing writing for the studio-based collective as I saw them in keeping with some of the things I am doing in my own practice. Sam approached me to write for the show, and I feel our pairing worked really well in terms of the proximity of some of our ideas and ideas for articulating them (in paint and in writing). My piece specifically emerged from a series of discussions with Sam as well as the writing/language studies I am currently undertaking and poets I am reading. (I would undoubtedly cite Leslie Scalapino as my main influence - spurring these thoughts and how I could consider writing them - but there are so many others).<br /><br />The writing was described by one funded art <a href="http://eyecontactartforum.blogspot.com/">blogger</a> as "waffly" and "impenetrable." I differentiate Hurrell's blog from his other writing because I am not familiar with it and assume there is a difference in terms of critical content and form. While I understand that my writing is difficult to "digest wholly" (assuming that's what readerly penetration does and highlighting that in fact my piece <em>purposely </em>resists that), he offered no commentary on why he thought this - as if it explained itself. I am interested in what constitutes as "waffly" and what the referent is precisely in my piece - he does not talk either of these things.<br /><br />It's not that I expect I won't receive remarks like this, but want to point out the way in which his comment denigrates and voids my writing as a valid interpretation and experience of Sam' work. It also blatantly assumes clarity is both always being "self evident" and that isn't something we should be interrogating.<br /><br />Hurrell finds my writing frustrating in its refusal to offer a singular meaning for a reader(?) It slides deliberately to configure multiple meanings and senses of Sam's work (as in I could not write that in a straight forward way because I wanted the reader to actually experience that in the writing - so it had to be distinct from the normative way of communicating with people). This textual openness I agree is so unlike the majority of art writing that legitimises an art experience via one's ability to categorically situate the work or connect it to "movements" and other practitioners (describing the viewer's experience to them?)<br /><br />It surprises me also because I am directly speaking about an idea that has been articulated by so many (phenomenologists, quantum physics, Zen, Cage...) and I focus on that particular thing throughout the piece - it is not divergent in that sense I am talking about many different things. So I am both sustaining attention and versioning the same points (so in a way what I say does not change, but also changes) allowing the reader "to get a hold of" what I am saying without tying them down <em>per se. </em><br /><br />Sam's show runs from 15 October - 1 November. Copies of my piece are available from Newcall Gallery and on their <a href="http://www.newcallgallery.org.nz/2008/10/14-10-08-emma-phillipps-writes-on-sam.html">website</a>.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-90089070086327087802008-10-09T02:36:00.000-07:002008-10-17T02:13:16.006-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HEwW6xteXD-mlUQgkXajwCIjylq8ZqCGTUdNpKs7KMlAVj5yX_nxNi5ylxdpTD3gofSMucTIzml0tDDdRcJsfVGE-2GhhDEsH9YncSJxP8vEa3TCxRVtEBXs-0NIeZvlSlugLiLBu0eX/s1600-h/img085.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255086090662736130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HEwW6xteXD-mlUQgkXajwCIjylq8ZqCGTUdNpKs7KMlAVj5yX_nxNi5ylxdpTD3gofSMucTIzml0tDDdRcJsfVGE-2GhhDEsH9YncSJxP8vEa3TCxRVtEBXs-0NIeZvlSlugLiLBu0eX/s400/img085.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-18220394286922029232008-10-09T02:31:00.000-07:002008-10-09T02:35:33.347-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KnHN7QT052HJHDr8kPDO2Oaice-UfPU6oymX28GP_EHListms09tcJiNrX1T7s45zPdiZkzPC66iXZeZXSjtgDkF654qHTYwaC8luVLHC79Sdx12vZTTHu2nebsolt4Roe_0oK2S5lZK/s1600-h/img084.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255085129051709074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KnHN7QT052HJHDr8kPDO2Oaice-UfPU6oymX28GP_EHListms09tcJiNrX1T7s45zPdiZkzPC66iXZeZXSjtgDkF654qHTYwaC8luVLHC79Sdx12vZTTHu2nebsolt4Roe_0oK2S5lZK/s400/img084.jpg" border="0" /></a>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-40327562430677350762008-09-27T19:50:00.000-07:002008-09-27T19:55:13.350-07:00Lounge 4 Reading ...... was great!<br /><br />These lovely people read their poetry:<br /><br />Sarah Broom<br />Jay Granger<br />Tony Green<br />Pip Howells<br />Ted Jenner<br />Olivia Macassey<br />Lydia May<br />Sam Sampson<br />Lisa Samuels<br />Michael Steven<br /><br /><br />In case you missed it - it's happening again in a month's time<br /><br />LOUNGE 5 READING<br />Old Government House (University of Auckland)<br />Princes Street & Waterloo Quadrant<br />5.30-7 PM<br />Wednesday 29 October<br /><br />With readings from:<br /><br />Jen Crawford<br />Kartika Ditirta<br />Shardae Grenfell<br />Mike Johnson<br />Karishma Kripalani<br />Andrew Pasley<br />Emily Perkins<br />Emma Phillipps<br />Gareth van Sambeek<br />Richard von Sturmer<br /><br />xEA Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-60764407934802867182008-09-20T16:27:00.001-07:002008-09-20T16:44:37.327-07:00Each other, floating & glancing - writing about writingChap*books features a review of Winterling Series One (my two self-published chaps) - in the <a href="http://planbchaps.blogspot.com/2008/09/chapbooks-26.html">chapbooks 26 post</a>. This wonderful blog is dedicated to chapbooks - a really important form of publication for emerging writers. The author of the blog (Steven) writes entries tracking his thoughts about chapbooks he collects (or is given). I happily facilitated a great chapbook swap with Steven - the observations of my writing are interesting and of course, I appreciate the encouraging, supportive comments. Thank you! xEA Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-13107828531458352922008-09-19T02:50:00.000-07:002008-09-19T02:58:02.118-07:00let thermal expression be syntactical. The natural is whatTwo committal - bore, and<br /><br /><em>"held there"</em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br />storage<br /><br /><br />There was him, as if in front - not unlike sensed<br />them<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />small spots, more blotchy (that is like spiky-edged)<br />across the way<br />assigned - overlaying them<br /><br /><br /><br />small triangular - like motions,<br /><br />of one (them?) stepping forth / from out<br />or underneath it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Covering placing - there is - range.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-91091667563792108172008-09-12T20:28:00.000-07:002008-09-19T02:49:57.935-07:00while staying reticent, unspokenThis is all,<br /><br /><br /><br />as occurring, alongside the expansion of:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />figures in brief<br /><br />to pupate periphrasis<br /><br /><br /><br />relationally slept on<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />intended, generative<br /><br /><br />a drift stooped<br />birth heard aging<br /><br />torn pages, rewritten face, (a face is interesting).A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-37716248543152020662008-08-21T18:53:00.000-07:002008-08-21T19:12:54.978-07:00Concerning into dry, they're - Collaged Poetry<em>Concerning into dry, they're</em> is a series of five collaged poems I have completed - one of which appeared in an earlier post. I used found text, image and pen markings. I have no conceptual statement fully articulated yet - but I think they are perhaps largely explorations in mixing different understandings of size and representative scale.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVAk4-bGvNv8bxtGmCGGFSU0MfPC2IrvdJSBgG3qYjCYR_bzhUz9qlvm8nXL5IOmZS67D2Oje_zWBEuNcrqsJHBZeLrciOLqLCQ52W-loXJPopBisldHKMgFqg83L2i4RuTQRK8KToBsx/s1600-h/img014.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237158018447950098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVAk4-bGvNv8bxtGmCGGFSU0MfPC2IrvdJSBgG3qYjCYR_bzhUz9qlvm8nXL5IOmZS67D2Oje_zWBEuNcrqsJHBZeLrciOLqLCQ52W-loXJPopBisldHKMgFqg83L2i4RuTQRK8KToBsx/s400/img014.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3eNITNrLzgf5pIVWQrtb5VAOsGgUrzca2IAiwWj8qr7bXhYBKFOHfSHcElA5k6JYVEOViO0X34L3NThxjHm0QHFXvifnQdpndC6F9kQcLg5kFQ8ildNq7X58EuK5kW-sCUosWqN8k_u6/s1600-h/img016.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237158023625681394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3eNITNrLzgf5pIVWQrtb5VAOsGgUrzca2IAiwWj8qr7bXhYBKFOHfSHcElA5k6JYVEOViO0X34L3NThxjHm0QHFXvifnQdpndC6F9kQcLg5kFQ8ildNq7X58EuK5kW-sCUosWqN8k_u6/s400/img016.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5zLiKBQpu8Ax-cTYgR0iCmhyUsITC8pc4m8qFbm_fPtJTPzJTrpKtE9gPTsoEbyCaUdQgiwHWLmTu8TW9DiOiLAUJ5URC85bcl8x3N3Du2coveGH9kaXVkSzLov44_GtfJExsHiEQOHj/s1600-h/img015.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237158025566191410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5zLiKBQpu8Ax-cTYgR0iCmhyUsITC8pc4m8qFbm_fPtJTPzJTrpKtE9gPTsoEbyCaUdQgiwHWLmTu8TW9DiOiLAUJ5URC85bcl8x3N3Du2coveGH9kaXVkSzLov44_GtfJExsHiEQOHj/s400/img015.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjta7EXHKrpwgbEtrsDQnqCtvSKGPUWFOpHFax4MEdV1s8NwB3ztIfEp6YZHUvOInCXHvHR58t6wiYk88meCT0KJi_54upANBMlNMm_bw_RaykY_pT9sw9fRJKNdCoGvjspwH8aZd2gldFx/s1600-h/img012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237158032973548034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjta7EXHKrpwgbEtrsDQnqCtvSKGPUWFOpHFax4MEdV1s8NwB3ztIfEp6YZHUvOInCXHvHR58t6wiYk88meCT0KJi_54upANBMlNMm_bw_RaykY_pT9sw9fRJKNdCoGvjspwH8aZd2gldFx/s400/img012.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxgWeTQ8FviLYaRXR71aUpZVZteMDn03n0Ah9eB3zgv6zNe9IXzOirm14T8FQbPbYeOrQMyM7b4G0Q0SVgh3FEVP7-VVuMogDIrV-na0EtolKDwmc7pyIH8zVJ9VEinAhieFWT3DYcF7g/s1600-h/img013.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237158031325576370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxgWeTQ8FviLYaRXR71aUpZVZteMDn03n0Ah9eB3zgv6zNe9IXzOirm14T8FQbPbYeOrQMyM7b4G0Q0SVgh3FEVP7-VVuMogDIrV-na0EtolKDwmc7pyIH8zVJ9VEinAhieFWT3DYcF7g/s400/img013.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />- E xx</p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-36156849025088386892008-08-21T16:46:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:52:57.592-07:00The brave and the bold...Occurences, which deeply affected me over the past three days - there were a series of things, I will not address them directly as events or as they occurred.<br /><br />1. Pathologising non-normative writing and ways of seeing language. So, taking your writing somewhere else is what you do.<br /><br />2. Organising "things" in the world depends upon external systems, good organisation depends upon using those systems and their "making" sense to us - what follows: "information" is that which makes sense to us, as if non-sensical (that is everything deviating from sense) is not information-meaning. (As if, making value judgments was all that ever mattered). Perhaps information and meaning are not the same thing, there is something here. What's more alarming: the interrogation of that which makes sense to us, these systems - cannot occur (?). There was also the assumption that language always accurately communicates what it means to say. Because language is always meaning/saying something - and not including nonsense words because they are not language (?). That is outside, and not the same action.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-13340282034820557642008-08-13T15:36:00.000-07:002008-08-13T15:38:44.315-07:00Sous RatureIssue 1 of Cara Benson's new journal, <a href="http://www.necessetics.com/1ssue.html">Sous Rature</a> is now online.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-75898133433757435012008-07-29T22:03:00.000-07:002008-07-30T13:12:03.548-07:00How it is, raining...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCjUZFqIc6xCl9Ef8s6gS6D1qp6bvXWJ73wGxl-qeHdGkj3FOwjNYIbZF2RAG21O9TsQnYueQhyphenhyphenai-3cpxDiL_OSBlZlNzLNk96W7JivJW29TQUa-RVGC4Kjt6ZLlTobK47-NYNUIFgll/s1600-h/DSCN4531.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228676927222176690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCjUZFqIc6xCl9Ef8s6gS6D1qp6bvXWJ73wGxl-qeHdGkj3FOwjNYIbZF2RAG21O9TsQnYueQhyphenhyphenai-3cpxDiL_OSBlZlNzLNk96W7JivJW29TQUa-RVGC4Kjt6ZLlTobK47-NYNUIFgll/s400/DSCN4531.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />... a lot in Auckland.<br /><br />My window, perpetually, looks like this.<br /><br /><br />Am (re)reading these wonderful books ...<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aKWfjQVptIjLUwI5Bzt7wNDUJXjk9zfKSjX5r4WYm0alAmyoKu6g5WyYZbfPcY1fm8CAWX_lAftBxAFXEmw7dOErdk7HXei8lPQn6Ng5iQhpKvdCWQd_V_ylzEr4xICpQ5sZpTprYYJ9/s1600-h/DSCN4537.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228674946337357106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aKWfjQVptIjLUwI5Bzt7wNDUJXjk9zfKSjX5r4WYm0alAmyoKu6g5WyYZbfPcY1fm8CAWX_lAftBxAFXEmw7dOErdk7HXei8lPQn6Ng5iQhpKvdCWQd_V_ylzEr4xICpQ5sZpTprYYJ9/s400/DSCN4537.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Keeping happy with these lovely bits ...<br /><br />I found the charming <a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/">Dancing Girl Press</a>. It is so wonderful, focused on independently publishing chapbooks by emerging female writers - this girl, Kristy Bowen, certainly keeps herself busy! Not only handling this project, she edits an online journal, <em><a href="http://www.sundress.net/wickedalice/">Wicked Alice</a> </em>and makes her own paper arts and beautiful jewellery, and collects vintage objects and other delightful items - making her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=55220"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">etsy</span></span></a> shop a storehouse of enviable, delicious treats. (Kristy keeps a lovely blog <a href="http://kristybowen.blogspot.com/">here</a> too).<br /><br /><a href="http://oriuminprocess.blogspot.com/2008/07/spelling-bound-take-two.html">Spelling ( ) Bound</a> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ellectrique</span></span> Press 2008) is a poetic collaboration between Cara Benson, Kai <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Fierle</span></span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hedrick</span></span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kathrin</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Schaeppi</span></span> and looks like a wonderful project - I certainly hope to get a copy.<br /><br />The projects exhibited in the <a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/new_media/index.html">New Media</a> section in the latest issue of How2 equally much - I thought that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Rosheen</span></span> Brennan's <em><a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/new_media/brennan/motion/motionindex.html">Motion</a></em> was particularly beautiful.<br /><br />Reading a manuscript too. Not mine. An energetic surge, sustained. Practically inhaled it.<br /><br /><br />Making things: some new <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">packettes</span></span> for chapbooks -<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WnZsmLILy5S3zgZlpKEqhS2v7ceWgu9EM8rhGxM-33OwkiP8saVm8_JGFt6v_StpqQTcqgBBvrn8sGvzG3SbAyijFnXbEti4hlRdI7G71Z9B-SdODi34Hpj_BNM1LVrzqryFozC58Y1I/s1600-h/DSCN4539.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228674350308199074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WnZsmLILy5S3zgZlpKEqhS2v7ceWgu9EM8rhGxM-33OwkiP8saVm8_JGFt6v_StpqQTcqgBBvrn8sGvzG3SbAyijFnXbEti4hlRdI7G71Z9B-SdODi34Hpj_BNM1LVrzqryFozC58Y1I/s400/DSCN4539.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Large handmade envelopes, hand stitched together to create a visible seam and using the same illustration as the last <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">packette</span></span> experiment.<br /><br />I have been working on a few different collages/<span style="color:#000000;">visual poems (</span><em><span style="color:#000000;">that</span> </em>genre)... </p><p>Here's one I have completed (though have not titled yet).<br /><br /><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDv6K-FV42xm98ijtofE4QKkppc7v8WXP9pdzit788BsCNxgXxsqaodP6OPjyrmz3bxSPfUqDq7zpuIzzaXwQHumqAAPdHLW_q_7ei-_yhyphenhyphenMNXJKiwT82IkiTKI0o3t1xo2g-wt0Pv8SK/s1600-h/img012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228673657902855330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDv6K-FV42xm98ijtofE4QKkppc7v8WXP9pdzit788BsCNxgXxsqaodP6OPjyrmz3bxSPfUqDq7zpuIzzaXwQHumqAAPdHLW_q_7ei-_yhyphenhyphenMNXJKiwT82IkiTKI0o3t1xo2g-wt0Pv8SK/s400/img012.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>- E xx</div>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-50229608707019995632008-07-21T16:34:00.000-07:002008-07-23T14:05:51.733-07:00Snap Happy in Europe<div align="center"></div><div align="center">Here are a few pictures of <em>some</em> of the wonderful places I visited on my holiday... (Too many to post!) I flew to Rome and then moved north to Milan, stopping in Florence, Monselice and Padua, and then travelled up and across to Marseille, spending some time in Aix-en-Provence, and then much further north to Brussels and Paris, crossing La Manche to London, which was my final destination.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bvmAtXjGeAHf2G82ChUp21wv5KlfUBOwlnGAc7pavj0V-uHHl3V9sSrpGAX_Rvaec55JtdAxwQGk-do2TmTgTVTWfnEGsK3NaNyqOCHFqpthFkRRZJP7OWlCqByHsCpRWtqLkjO2pakK/s1600-h/DSCN0069.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120964641733090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bvmAtXjGeAHf2G82ChUp21wv5KlfUBOwlnGAc7pavj0V-uHHl3V9sSrpGAX_Rvaec55JtdAxwQGk-do2TmTgTVTWfnEGsK3NaNyqOCHFqpthFkRRZJP7OWlCqByHsCpRWtqLkjO2pakK/s400/DSCN0069.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">The Pantheon</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCDJuDfClUHt_Ia1RCFyNDkVHvxXAjkKGVagDJZZ3C95p9U5cCCyu94U71bsEu3OoMhEi0jPfXTK9P035czMzYNoiBnwKYb8NaXNk3s-RP3CaC6z-v9fRBCrhMR9WU9pSM9p-CqNzmoqh/s1600-h/DSCN0181.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120968707649426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCDJuDfClUHt_Ia1RCFyNDkVHvxXAjkKGVagDJZZ3C95p9U5cCCyu94U71bsEu3OoMhEi0jPfXTK9P035czMzYNoiBnwKYb8NaXNk3s-RP3CaC6z-v9fRBCrhMR9WU9pSM9p-CqNzmoqh/s400/DSCN0181.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Looking down across the Roman Forum, Colosseum in the distance</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRM9lB_Y5s_wB-SrTiCesZScFCVp8_hK0HL-zpb6VvVy7RPO2ZPDT4IsWBvABUGbXKlHNC2vIaQ7YsHF7bNKK-6i56f5-5cbhIqFtbZGVwujF4P6wxPyTMblT23FithFuz0Jky2-4p78iL/s1600-h/DSCN0233.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120240102153762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRM9lB_Y5s_wB-SrTiCesZScFCVp8_hK0HL-zpb6VvVy7RPO2ZPDT4IsWBvABUGbXKlHNC2vIaQ7YsHF7bNKK-6i56f5-5cbhIqFtbZGVwujF4P6wxPyTMblT23FithFuz0Jky2-4p78iL/s400/DSCN0233.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center">Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli</div><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBFlTeHhGGq7VT0GKX8ODz6Xfh83bIvR-9R-CB0H9Qe6J6dQmSd77nczPmZncIZK3rxdFrHGwrbMdb9KEprq9rkNjJvlQNQK30sbzc05dpVNvhFxRH0G8bm2bB-qPscRFDrRUgi684bB9/s1600-h/DSCN0449.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120240100848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBFlTeHhGGq7VT0GKX8ODz6Xfh83bIvR-9R-CB0H9Qe6J6dQmSd77nczPmZncIZK3rxdFrHGwrbMdb9KEprq9rkNjJvlQNQK30sbzc05dpVNvhFxRH0G8bm2bB-qPscRFDrRUgi684bB9/s400/DSCN0449.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p align="center">Pompei</p><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZj6iNN9gKUwBJ9GRKmyJgBQ6FoxJ7Tbr2Jgj-wdEeVeNVDBAgZIGrm6_V89V10NJqiAc9xoaTMFmrcUoiwUeRpyrTOR7thJ231Ht0H_nUdAgXF2JOJnRInSighisXXE2gHzRXaMhxUvZ/s1600-h/DSCN0603.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120243844467138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZj6iNN9gKUwBJ9GRKmyJgBQ6FoxJ7Tbr2Jgj-wdEeVeNVDBAgZIGrm6_V89V10NJqiAc9xoaTMFmrcUoiwUeRpyrTOR7thJ231Ht0H_nUdAgXF2JOJnRInSighisXXE2gHzRXaMhxUvZ/s400/DSCN0603.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p align="center">Florence</p><br /><p align="center"><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvTaGEHH1FwlzM1E-TOVKWWAesAaQGdtqGg7HWum0LZokmUJ3xpitXpmRMDDLv9Q7d_NFiOcgYyKMP1MHT4uwUKceRQ-YFXGd8Rb3udowOnk4PsPUJnlxQZhIByARcF0Y1-BaLJD1VII5/s1600-h/DSCN0739.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120243875378098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvTaGEHH1FwlzM1E-TOVKWWAesAaQGdtqGg7HWum0LZokmUJ3xpitXpmRMDDLv9Q7d_NFiOcgYyKMP1MHT4uwUKceRQ-YFXGd8Rb3udowOnk4PsPUJnlxQZhIByARcF0Y1-BaLJD1VII5/s400/DSCN0739.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Scrovengi Chapel, Padua<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226120244107873442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hTglQo9l4YDTTfGI6ScDaYPZNsXb8xWRvh92hpulhyl9RWUauA1mHS3g6SR4l3doJXUdQtyZPfPITbgh9xT3L-_nW1DVv0BZ6GsgTcKFCg8nZQ9gKYfTtonu_vErpG_DH8iDtieRMb52/s400/DSCN0772.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><br />Monselice (Venetian countryside)</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMbrHPLntQudVXYWKhtyjpI8pi79qrE3hxx46z81diCKBh-_vIXgtsvZYHnV3UDRAuiMmN2sdc52isAt_cUW3TfKdj3F3IUR9I3InuP76LSeFBuk96uO2s9OYbvSuYveMjMBuMRRQ2iMgd/s1600-h/DSCN0809.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226119012376265298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMbrHPLntQudVXYWKhtyjpI8pi79qrE3hxx46z81diCKBh-_vIXgtsvZYHnV3UDRAuiMmN2sdc52isAt_cUW3TfKdj3F3IUR9I3InuP76LSeFBuk96uO2s9OYbvSuYveMjMBuMRRQ2iMgd/s400/DSCN0809.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Mont Sainte-Victoire, Aix-en-Provence </div><div align="center"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcokVrRQKU0h5_qiOFusNW7QXa10RLC4u8oB2szKdoFMS9uMLv3JqeEG0QGehZemqcnepAEHTBz7pQFzSKoO4MWZcLzkDGU2drknnoVod93CtjWnKUnO_iA_R3IUURFgD_mc4fNCTAebk/s1600-h/DSCN0873.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226119011080618818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcokVrRQKU0h5_qiOFusNW7QXa10RLC4u8oB2szKdoFMS9uMLv3JqeEG0QGehZemqcnepAEHTBz7pQFzSKoO4MWZcLzkDGU2drknnoVod93CtjWnKUnO_iA_R3IUURFgD_mc4fNCTAebk/s400/DSCN0873.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Creme-brulee! </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xiMtMPpmY-PFZ7gjO93PpVo0oezfAcTZst0kPa867gNeTv5zOHTOBajZDnQkSmlAH_uTP84HQ_Ib9dHvH-IflWevjTP5qqv2vk8dWRJSEvWxq9N-m0WkmQ8Q5BEL8f6YpbY4l0z2au0Q/s1600-h/DSCN0877.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226119018056379666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xiMtMPpmY-PFZ7gjO93PpVo0oezfAcTZst0kPa867gNeTv5zOHTOBajZDnQkSmlAH_uTP84HQ_Ib9dHvH-IflWevjTP5qqv2vk8dWRJSEvWxq9N-m0WkmQ8Q5BEL8f6YpbY4l0z2au0Q/s400/DSCN0877.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Marseille </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdM41rz20pRByNLLvTGSPl2fwkDiWHtBIjl8T-YhLNQaEodGztV7faLGkzwT_EdP0iyhogTYcaTi3TCT4eYLIIK_k5-aiHX91VCuL__EKzfH6XIUlWsbfauxNT3qoSMX3sccFlEIhDhjVh/s1600-h/DSCN0892.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226119016578275922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdM41rz20pRByNLLvTGSPl2fwkDiWHtBIjl8T-YhLNQaEodGztV7faLGkzwT_EdP0iyhogTYcaTi3TCT4eYLIIK_k5-aiHX91VCuL__EKzfH6XIUlWsbfauxNT3qoSMX3sccFlEIhDhjVh/s400/DSCN0892.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Brussels </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu4FJ0ve392CS7sBzfOYonkqLi8V35rXpwf8RIdQY0Ug11P62wL51gZTetpE8AT-LUDx2GWpXcyjHfVN0e8FhMXOB4WOGepXico0qiKC_Q-5GpHAikEdl274yKdifL0dd8tHrwRJpZCv_/s1600-h/DSCN0923.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226119016657578626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu4FJ0ve392CS7sBzfOYonkqLi8V35rXpwf8RIdQY0Ug11P62wL51gZTetpE8AT-LUDx2GWpXcyjHfVN0e8FhMXOB4WOGepXico0qiKC_Q-5GpHAikEdl274yKdifL0dd8tHrwRJpZCv_/s400/DSCN0923.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>The Seine<br /></p><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9bzpEg0XrELT5Y0L5ZUvd9Py3oE3_W4FYvB_m_ACoQfQTaOuGaeh0Wfob6rqB1YFKsi7WtbqKCa9t6ZEDthQ6MELnOrPDbEqfPLJ4imdqXKunv_QtUe1dgWy5b_7TUbiZ_8m15b2WfGo/s1600-h/DSCN0992.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226117880010232322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9bzpEg0XrELT5Y0L5ZUvd9Py3oE3_W4FYvB_m_ACoQfQTaOuGaeh0Wfob6rqB1YFKsi7WtbqKCa9t6ZEDthQ6MELnOrPDbEqfPLJ4imdqXKunv_QtUe1dgWy5b_7TUbiZ_8m15b2WfGo/s400/DSCN0992.JPG" border="0" /></a>La Rive Gauche</div><p><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVySZfBSdpk4nET48Bv1qFn_heCzh5EQ4dhvp3MoE45T6stqTNH2k4gG-7tiJ5ECuMZ0Hjz03BziWCNA4zF0OvDMUEudx89fDSgnYgAfeqZvPOy-YIiP6l1R9mSCQlg3JBov6MDHC4ngji/s1600-h/DSCN1108.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226117886911690178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVySZfBSdpk4nET48Bv1qFn_heCzh5EQ4dhvp3MoE45T6stqTNH2k4gG-7tiJ5ECuMZ0Hjz03BziWCNA4zF0OvDMUEudx89fDSgnYgAfeqZvPOy-YIiP6l1R9mSCQlg3JBov6MDHC4ngji/s400/DSCN1108.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>Centre Pompidou </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdjYbFJkepTmZGko_O3aOsvyEPsvLJwMt_HrpmtVvqIqT1FtzghOH5exMbWUzm-qbE-DJTGUcxkmZThr7mgN6QTIGSvwUjXNr6BFVHSxf-2SexhV6AM7LYNSD43Nb2gcbnfA7Z2SQoHTt/s1600-h/DSCN1144.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226117887628186530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdjYbFJkepTmZGko_O3aOsvyEPsvLJwMt_HrpmtVvqIqT1FtzghOH5exMbWUzm-qbE-DJTGUcxkmZThr7mgN6QTIGSvwUjXNr6BFVHSxf-2SexhV6AM7LYNSD43Nb2gcbnfA7Z2SQoHTt/s400/DSCN1144.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Eiffel Tower - looking very twinkly...<br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226117893000499986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaIBqQEABbUpqaIW8f4WPpI2nQwZUBTtiYhDBWpYeJ7qyCdyikzN3bkCIaP9r15sDlv5cHNh6gZIofFPzjKDYBGsAlkyqPBHLkJ47Mho9EjOKaz3nW2S_L9MzHCuAidOY6S6HzS8g9mW8/s400/DSCN1169.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"><br />View from the Eiffel Tower<br /></p><p align="left">More writing and art posts soon!<br />Emma X<br /></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-66658118670009099602008-06-18T14:52:00.000-07:002008-08-28T22:44:54.069-07:00Leaving here for awhile...I am off to travel the Continent tomorrow.<br /><br />Looking forward to getting out of Auckland and away from campus for awhile. I finally have some time for relaxing (proper) and traveling.<br /><br />Part of my holiday time means some time for reading...<br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213356610302388018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08sYz1-ABmpG1V9n7yWRPqZH3DbIVTKc1Ml1tuSY4yCtSyIzEOVwDmQHbA9dzG6qkQDWB11fNTslWhclGtBfHjganr5RZrY-pterhGz0Eo9aZ5vr-4u2-QVGCeL_BWaEL6KRQeSxrQPgO/s400/DSCN4500.JPG" border="0" /> </p><p><br /><em>The Journals of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Anais</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Nin</span> -</em> diary writing is my literary indulgence, I love confessional writing. </p><p><em>How We Are Hungry </em>by Dave <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Eggers</span> - have not read any of his yet... a book my partner lent me... Thank you! </p><p><em>The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence </em>by Leslie Scalapino <em>- (</em>who is incredibly amazing) I am writing a paper on this book so I cannot leave it behind. I am actually really looking forward to spending some more time with it - it is an extremely difficult and wonderful critical book.<br /><br /><em>The White Fire of Time </em>by Ellen <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Hinsey</span> - a book another friend <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">lent</span> me... Thank you!<br /><br /><em>Androgyny Magazine - </em>I'm not much of a magazine person, in fact, I have not even read this publication before - but I decided I needed a travel treat - it looks very pretty...<br /><br />...I am also taking some photocopied selections from Susan Howe's <em>The Midnight</em>... delight.<br /><br />Of course, I am too, looking forward to perusing the new <a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/index.html">How2 issue</a>.<br /><br /></p><p>So, I will be out of blogging action for about 4 weeks. Please feel free to email me re chapbook swaps and art trades - bearing in mind I will not <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">be able</span> to do your mail out until the end of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">July</span>. </p><p><br />Emma X</p><p></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-72960835516327857892008-06-15T23:10:00.000-07:002008-06-15T23:47:07.857-07:00naming my press; WinterlingI came across the word ‘<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Winterling</span>’ in <em><a href="http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/litnat/index2.html">Literature Nation</a> </em>by Maria Damon and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Meikal</span> And.<br /><br /><br />How to recognise: a/the/such as, "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">winterling</span>".<br /><br /><br />Suffixing winter with-ling, makes the "winter": pejorative, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">diminutive</span>, small or refers to a person described in the/as "winter".<br /><br /><br />I am moving beyond botanical drawings, seasons, or a creature.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Winterling</span>: is not like when something breaks, but more, it is, as distance (smallness, diminuation) - but always locatable. "Affect", and when, there is sound. It is something material, like object. Registering. It also comes before there is sound, much like splintering something, broken in fragments and simply left - sounds - like words. With sound and as though, with or not, -ling, a long trembling and feeling like "facing down" or "looking away". But looking toward the splintering, but <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">occurring</span> not before it.A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-57374216447294802522008-06-06T18:31:00.000-07:002008-06-16T00:42:57.336-07:00Dusie: Kollektiv Participation, My Next Big Project...<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1t4hWomUtg9PIfGy2WtUrbT1G4V4TUJh5QgrC8FiW5-fkBZDXNSlS_XxxEIRVU5G3CLj8nub3zMZZe27L2O671FBJHMl2dcwdwjnDUHer20Yq_E5Q4MbNBNn4URaZ1HfzpmbG5voK5NPe/s1600-h/dusie3k.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211926281203046370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1t4hWomUtg9PIfGy2WtUrbT1G4V4TUJh5QgrC8FiW5-fkBZDXNSlS_XxxEIRVU5G3CLj8nub3zMZZe27L2O671FBJHMl2dcwdwjnDUHer20Yq_E5Q4MbNBNn4URaZ1HfzpmbG5voK5NPe/s400/dusie3k.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Illustration from </em></span><a href="http://www.dusie.org/issuethree.html"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Dusie : 3</em></span></a><br /><p></p></div><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="left">Dusie du... </p><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="left">The wonderful Susana Gardner who facilitates Dusie, the journal, press & many other writing projects, kindly invited me to participate in the Dusie Kollektiv Chapbook Project for this year. I'm so greatful to be a part of this and really excited about this project! </p><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="left">How it works... Susana has divided the group into partners, or rather created a kind of chain where, for instance, I will be giving writing to another in the Kollektiv for them to publish, and someone else will be giving me their writing to publish. Things are very much in beginning/organising stages at the moment, but I will keep you updated on the project here. I can say at this stage that I am so lucky to be paired up with such inspiring, experienced, wonderfully supportive writers... </p><p></p><div align="center"><br /></div><p align="left">Winterling and other things...</p><p align="left">I originally had plans to make more chapbooks of my own writing this year (self-publication was a good place to begin and test things out), but now I can see that is probably not going to happen - not only because I realised how long it takes to make a chapbook, but also because I want to work on other writing projects, i.e. I do not think everything I write has to be "chapped" necessarily and I have also realised that would love to publish others' writing. So Winterling Press as a chapbook series will include my own writing but I am hoping to mostly publish others' work. </p><p align="left">So... I think I will make some more copies of <em>there is always the impossibility of being able to move sideways </em>and <em>As For We Who Love, At the Instant As Being Entirely Different From It </em>for more chapbook swaps and art trades this year. Writing that I have done for the forthcoming <em>Anathema ... </em>chapbook, is no longer going to be "chapped" (well not by Winterling anyway) - I think it will be reworked into more self-contained sequences - which I then plan to send out into the world - my first time submitting for publication in journals. I have decided I will make two new chapbooks at the end of the year, after Dusie, over the summer - and I will be publishing another's writing for each, I am very excited about this - such a great way to diversify and move Winterling along. </p><p align="left">Emma X</p><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-26816108592893374852008-06-06T18:21:00.001-07:002008-06-08T15:01:34.806-07:00"Generosity As Method"<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gfNh13v1XB51uwsHQwdh-LtQx7fRM8mASUn4ujzkAAgfWkgOVkLhBvZvz5M-2LzGe-TqKUQz2Pz9Yqy19FHDxqfdQgPXX_8qadu8505XBF0njSz3z2XIMZZYYcoPEn2kQq4I0syl-a9g/s1600-h/DSCN4454.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209001411869127314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gfNh13v1XB51uwsHQwdh-LtQx7fRM8mASUn4ujzkAAgfWkgOVkLhBvZvz5M-2LzGe-TqKUQz2Pz9Yqy19FHDxqfdQgPXX_8qadu8505XBF0njSz3z2XIMZZYYcoPEn2kQq4I0syl-a9g/s400/DSCN4454.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I am so overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity I have experienced conducting chapbook swaps so far - the giving and gifting that occurs is productive on both distributive and communicative levels. Not only has this given me a chance to expand my "readership" (or rather <em>start</em>), swapping has allowed me to share in the creative processes and publishing activities of many wonderful writing communities and independent presses, here in Auckland and on the other side of the world. I often experience a lot of anxiety, as a beginner - writer and publisher - so being in contact with very inspiring, experienced and dedicated people has alleviated much of this. I feel chapbook swapping will positively influence, open up and diversify my practice more - not only as others support my activity through the exchanges, but as they share their own writing and publishing experiences with me. Thank you! I hope to continue to do more swapping.<br /><br />I also would like to take the opportunity to showcase such wonderful gifts - from three wonderful wee presses:<br /><br /><div align="center">Michael Steven's Soapbox Press</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><em>Click <a href="http://www.insurgentcountry.blogspot.com/">here</a> to be directed to Michael's wonderful poetry blog</em></div><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209011103360516610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECZBZfrEehbNJ4oHTEclVHgYr9LDXD0n4eeAMhWqe6tf09WbTviMAAeqkzAPwXJqXdH7NkDYDZZ7kORKESPK4wG26nVeTxQv_YPpA1mRY_66DdClcJIxEJki9mYnReijddX5pvwsMrD2d/s400/DSCN4481.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p>Lovely to find other small press activity right here in Auckland... Soapbox publications are stocked at Parsons and Jason Books, or alternatively you could email Michael (you can find his contact email on his blogger profile).</p><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209011107169219234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVtpMo8cNkE6mIymj-vrz19xGpED6opn5OFlyjP-XQ-nBIM1u4U3Nvphg3dQHttojcJyWA9Yv-6nugxWUyB6fxgKoSpZMGryDr_WEsCG-I1e21uI2QH9N7CCQgB_jw_oWrV_yDEH5PWGLs/s400/DSCN4482.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">Carrie Hunter's <a href="http://ypolitapress.blogspot.com/">ypolita press</a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209001410814377762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4nn8gI4gx__q3Z5KkHytUdLMgOQgV9J_4NkOXZ8qvdJijN9YfglsfxR8le6ulOYa8OlBJT-3jIWxcyqPOIAPdRxSWmYv65XFCxqsbr7jXLte-ETaEGlXbXYiQSpA_szKAUZqfsf30a0nQ/s400/DSCN4466.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br />Carrie sent me two beautiful chapbooks - <em>Gothenburg from Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire </em>by <a href="http://www.turntablebluelight.com/">Arielle Guy</a> ...<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209001415259550514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqt3evZ2cKfEdAI3Ihly3bdimgyEFKlNAStKQ-PoKBkWgB5ITGor_fxN46XFYkGsNAlMETjLcFvJ4EmZSFccFginsUpsI6LrjwHdcFTXaylJzfHnzKYObW-s1qOZxfrdY20nB6nOjK0PWj/s400/DSCN4470.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div align="right">... and ypolita's latest chapbook, <em>Easter Sunday </em>by <a href="http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/">Barbara Jane Reyes</a>. </div><div align="right">I love the beautifully illustrated covers.<br /></div><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209007322103687010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkqmLIPZe8UWqJ1cZ2gbBt6WjeMTJAWb5hIMVgMPt1lxr1xD7HZ8UQJ8FmQepTgQv8g7igedVpa86KhkfDW1ckD2PFMZkU-ok6TZeQSR-74283ImtVmYpwyWoc2q61jtgBFbFYmc_tM1f/s400/DSCN4484.JPG" border="0" /><br />... take a look inside <em>Easter Sunday.</em><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209001422640930722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaq1g0hVv2zsF6WL9n72Wb1xsjAuS3mQg8Z2UAnomuZqrFgzKIjeoFnFuYztd-R6NJHBqKD0R4AqRt5wH1ap50ZIHSM872E39vLNkAyLc2RIpzhD_4nT_jmNZ2NazvCizuZrexTozrq9KQ/s400/DSCN4471.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">Juliet Cook's <a href="http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/">Blood Pudding Press</a></div><div align="center"><em>to be administered in spoonfuls...</em><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209001430064329234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqbeK5ZA2s8y-smPZnnjxhLQnoAJU-OOh-9VYI6uoJ9WCNk8b3XvhPfZRXHF6hUGyDmHgxFekWP_sypvbzpVt0m7a8wzeBmeX_o5n34uQBtVnrx9QWdQpGOPpTkHocFIsZPvcWK-F-9XVl/s400/DSCN4475.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /></div><p align="left">Juliet, also very kindly, sent me two chaps! <em>Ectoplasmic Necropolis - </em>great title! Love the binding - making use of different kinds of ribbon-ish materials - and the brightly coloured paper too ... </p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209011082069350450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1q94TeSK6oMVLhJ9dYabWucKQlkmAxY3aT9bOqkKCXGlf5-6yLBZ4r1ZMw9Ao3cZ1_f-V1HEJRBt6fr0LoOTtT4N5LEqqYbXwf9-gsmFnhnY3hpNHR_DOJoVM9hdnpBd6F819hInZtUa/s400/DSCN4476.JPG" border="0" /></p><p align="right">... back cover illustration surprise!</p><p></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209011086593556722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6Jm3Xksjs319zJDg_bXs6Bb40IZHPHbCfk4StSxM_lsvm1fx98uvZ35piccXEkXo-cYAcX6_-aAM4k1vq4rOtaXdHp6HRiCWLHX0prL9yAnkV4XgAT2UgObjJfrBjm-czgbsvmcSK9_u/s400/DSCN4477.JPG" border="0" /><br />... and <em>The Laura Poems </em>- am looking forward to reading this very much...</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209007326379694882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyuP-tSM4ZrE35R5N8vSSwckvpK0nM83CCeTZoud1A7WI0tW7NIlousNL2wqGAsR1aA_VL1b3uhkzeV5PSFg9NH4fQtKcC2dMa5RLxDzF1GHmuC-oPQQp2IcLOu8D_HrNrfGQWY4ohuKy/s400/DSCN4488.JPG" border="0" /></p><p align="right">... Twin Peaks is such a great series, and as Juliet's poems are, I'm sure.</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209011094313015586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOTYkFRPMQDbs88CwBEFrCmd5gL8z0hbv-aKCFziUXf51WRxkQfiUFaY_ZwGfsHHuKOWrowd1j7X3nBghfVYaKNun-RiIeI2_TzKfCJGpW_6xAVEKzoOHYKV8h4aFCecCpQHZ7XVZdZOz/s400/DSCN4480.JPG" border="0" /></p><p align="left">If anyone would like to do a chapbook swap - and remember I am keen to trade for any other lovely bits - please be in touch!</p><p align="left">More soon! X </p><p></p></div>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-72691953254473562412008-06-02T20:17:00.001-07:002008-06-03T21:48:02.418-07:00More Winterling Packettes...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIkuud4ome7etit9CdXf2bVwM7gMis_iC9HIYGpH4OknWfA5-_tSxLwSGfeJIcanZ3sIn5MyuDzcUKB1MJ_v8IOxAsScckJw5zhFyRTW2T5kzbXWSDrIycrfRerAhbkSpo-GdHhx7FZ6n/s1600-h/DSCN4443.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207494933883406546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIkuud4ome7etit9CdXf2bVwM7gMis_iC9HIYGpH4OknWfA5-_tSxLwSGfeJIcanZ3sIn5MyuDzcUKB1MJ_v8IOxAsScckJw5zhFyRTW2T5kzbXWSDrIycrfRerAhbkSpo-GdHhx7FZ6n/s400/DSCN4443.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />For my next set of chapbook swaps I wanted to create an alternative cover/sleeve. I decided to make simple large envelopes - without seal or adhesive, these may be opened and closed by the tie at the top.<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRbyNvLKRGpGxsW7vpiX_POMcFJCM3JycenTZnZ8_lLXToBD0Rflw-JrQYe-xarv3xdw284fisif1L2BDErdFMPLBWd-P9673GRjitxuCs1TvRvbYaoJwpCrSyURR1KcTeFIlBs_7AZJd/s1600-h/DSCN4444.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207494933883406562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRbyNvLKRGpGxsW7vpiX_POMcFJCM3JycenTZnZ8_lLXToBD0Rflw-JrQYe-xarv3xdw284fisif1L2BDErdFMPLBWd-P9673GRjitxuCs1TvRvbYaoJwpCrSyURR1KcTeFIlBs_7AZJd/s400/DSCN4444.JPG" border="0" /></a> </p><p>I decided to pare the collage for these covers right down - the back of the envelope looks very similar. I am basically working with part of a map/some kind of numerated diagram image - so cutting up found material and then using a basic computer illustration program to erase most of it, aswell as the evidence of my cut up procedure. </p><p>I think I will keep generating more ideas and possibilities for these packettes and try to establish a kind of loose aesthetic 'feel' for the Winterling project. Please be in touch if you would like to do chapbook or an "anything else" swap! (There is a link to my email on my profile). Thank you so much for those who have responded so far - your packettes will be posted at the end of the week. I hope you will enjoy them. </p><p>More soon! X<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLY6PNvdr9GVtLN55qz63Vg5Iw1KJS86IShMpx_Lx1WRax71LFujZTFDmdp9la94ppevPYHRrfAn2tge1DZIG1lrlnD0k7vupf9P6mGGGGcBz-cR2Ctcy77HDhcMLQ2QtFwvcgp4rT1Lh4/s1600-h/DSCN4452.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207494938178373874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLY6PNvdr9GVtLN55qz63Vg5Iw1KJS86IShMpx_Lx1WRax71LFujZTFDmdp9la94ppevPYHRrfAn2tge1DZIG1lrlnD0k7vupf9P6mGGGGcBz-cR2Ctcy77HDhcMLQ2QtFwvcgp4rT1Lh4/s400/DSCN4452.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />P.S. I was not sure if the US Postal Service would let me send thank-you-note-twigs from New Zealand - so I made a little collage and printed it on handmade paper instead!</p><p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjswCnbnHtGIWbYuv510hWRipjLuzZ1lVdmuxe8KBaSoInCj7ljBQrsFdSqgeR9bAemlBagTi-uQibxI328fKQjs7IDJpgwzvVjRgDDNwkeezypV0hFv1f1FKmbiiwrKHf4kGoxDb37So5/s1600-h/DSCN4450.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207494938178373890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjswCnbnHtGIWbYuv510hWRipjLuzZ1lVdmuxe8KBaSoInCj7ljBQrsFdSqgeR9bAemlBagTi-uQibxI328fKQjs7IDJpgwzvVjRgDDNwkeezypV0hFv1f1FKmbiiwrKHf4kGoxDb37So5/s400/DSCN4450.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-84552175954758964162008-05-22T17:21:00.003-07:002008-05-31T20:15:09.488-07:00Infoaesthetics & Data Visualisation: The Expressivity of 'Virtual' Matter Itself<a href="http://infosthetics.com/">Information Aesthetics: Form Follows Data - Data Visualisation & Visual Communication</a> (<em>Infoaesthetics</em>) is a blog dedicated to exploring the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualisation. Inspired by Manovich's definition, infoaesthetics relates to a series of new conceptualisations of form - emergent, distributed representation that is never fixed, within the set of parameters within software. (Data is to informationalism, what abstraction was to Modernism).<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijxI9LzSSbMhrcpUDGFS3t3G52qoBu9_JJTcWR1MHIcYFocXCBqS9ku82LDkwpnT__L79ZnKPOmXqWQGIe-P-BJgGbNnVt5QXsyudf_CIoOnsdtkr-9KSlzXTtOAEzfmAOojQiDS-tMYbG/s1600-h/bus_structure.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203484639366808690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijxI9LzSSbMhrcpUDGFS3t3G52qoBu9_JJTcWR1MHIcYFocXCBqS9ku82LDkwpnT__L79ZnKPOmXqWQGIe-P-BJgGbNnVt5QXsyudf_CIoOnsdtkr-9KSlzXTtOAEzfmAOojQiDS-tMYbG/s400/bus_structure.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/05/bus_routes_data_sculpture.html">Bus Routes Data Sculpture</a> - a 3D data sculpture of the Sunday Minneapolis / St. Paul public transit system, where the horizontal axes represent directional movement and the vertical represents time.</span></div><br /><br /><em>Infoaesthetics</em> functions like an exhibition or art space, a project that has collated many different data collections & representations, such as the virtual mapping of human movement through space. As a blog, it is interested in data representations that acknowledge the importance of the emotional experience of users as information access is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives and therefore new approaches are required for information presentation which consider user engagement and visual aesthetics.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk331ypG65cKx_QA1b6XvlnwRq7EqWxVeWEGFTETEj-hWi3wA8fzceyB5xdVkqBK1yepj71338fjCAkZ0OJOv2PxcRq77SDidQnv01FHIOyi56NOJzGUsj-D_ex6KPAN7FvIXSWKJuWG_B/s1600-h/greenpix.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203484643661776002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk331ypG65cKx_QA1b6XvlnwRq7EqWxVeWEGFTETEj-hWi3wA8fzceyB5xdVkqBK1yepj71338fjCAkZ0OJOv2PxcRq77SDidQnv01FHIOyi56NOJzGUsj-D_ex6KPAN7FvIXSWKJuWG_B/s400/greenpix.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/05/zero_energy_massive_led_display.html">greenpix zero-energy massive LED display</a> - the largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark.</span> </div><div align="center"></div><br />Following a Deleuzian populist approach to art - artistic production, extended to include all forms of expressivity and creativity, is a capability of many more things in the world than humans or a specific group of humans - atoms, molecules, geological phenomena, animals. It also includes the expressive representations of visual data and the circulatory or distribution processes that create these emergent forms.<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH4Lsj1FjCf06TTX1jsBgwUi9nOKOsw_md3a_DhAvLR3SpSTqvaEal5XzmdCOVu8p7hultCt77tdCC_4LIHSeM1-n1CPbMa_Oe3i350FcT5lXo-YPwQnQazsbnt4NCQ6ZimL6gniGGutw/s1600-h/invisible_journeys.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203484643661776018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH4Lsj1FjCf06TTX1jsBgwUi9nOKOsw_md3a_DhAvLR3SpSTqvaEal5XzmdCOVu8p7hultCt77tdCC_4LIHSeM1-n1CPbMa_Oe3i350FcT5lXo-YPwQnQazsbnt4NCQ6ZimL6gniGGutw/s400/invisible_journeys.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/05/wifi_geographical_mapping.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">Wifi Geographical Mapping</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> - </span><span style="font-size:85%;">a set of "semi-abstract" circular visualizations of the WiFi encryption </span><span style="font-size:85%;">levels while traveling through the cities of London, Vescemont, Belfort & Barcelona.</span> </p><p></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-17044698034052146832008-05-19T21:46:00.000-07:002008-05-20T14:46:47.578-07:00Not All Bloggers Are Human...Written by artist <a href="http://www.motorhueso.net/myNonSpace/indexeng.htm">Eugenio Tisselli</a>, JB Wock is <a href="http://www.motorhueso.net/jbwock/script.htm">PHP script</a> who likes to keep a <a href="http://www.motorhueso.net/jbwock/">blog</a>.<br /><br />Posting nearly as regularly as each day, JB Wock's decision to post is determined by a random vairable, not disimilar to human bloggers who post based upon contingent factors or establish ritualistic posting procedures, often based upon contingent factors.<br /><br />JB Wock finds phrases on the internet and manipulates this found text, 'twisting' it into something different - but still derived from a source text. The readers of this blog leave comments that riff off the short, poetic lines JB Wock posts. The recursiveness of leaving comments on others' blogs, as an intrinsic part of any blog's functionining, is heightened in this project.<br /><br />I wonder if <em><a href="http://www.wefeelfine.org/">We Feel Fine</a> </em>has picked up on how this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">alogrithm</a> is 'feeling'?A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-21913432522747217242008-05-19T00:39:00.000-07:002008-05-31T20:24:56.024-07:00"It Must Be Free & Downloadable": Internet Art Communities As Flourishing Gift EconomiesArt constitutes a non-rival material good if it is shared - the giver and the receiver would enhance the welfare of the artistic or creative community they both are a part of. This idea of sharing / gifting art would expand and diversify sites of access, collection and dissemination of art and associated writing or reponses. The web with its potentiality to circulate art works, projects and texts (widely and quickly) can massively expand artistic and creative communities.<br /><br />Members of these online creative communities are producers (creating internet art or contributing to its creation in some way) as well as consumers (people are able to access the art works easily), as this system is about open, fluid and reciprocal gifting and exchange. It offers us an alternative to the prevailing art market or dealer economy (characterized by the impersonal exchange of commodities, or more specficially art, for money) as it is based on sharing and community building.<br /><br />A gift economy is defined as “an economic system in which the prevalent mode of exchange for goods and services is to be given without an explicit agreement upon a quid pro quo.” It is distinct from the market economy in that it does not exchange commodities, the PennSound project is a good example. The mp3 sound files available at PennSound are not commodities that can be exchanged for money. Bernstein asserts that their will be no problems with rights (all are given to the poet) and there is no profit to be gained - because they can be accessed and downloaded by anyone who has been granted access to the Internet for free. They are gifts given by the poets to PennSound (given permission to use the sound material), an organization that then gifts to the Internet - using public free and downloadable poetry sound files. The site asks its users to reciprocate by way of providing any bibliographical information they might have about the material – a request for direct reader input. This idea of reciprocity in part relies on users to proliferate the ‘message’ and disseminate the concept of poetry readings as a social enterprise as widely as possible.<br /><br />The gift economy will flourish in a cultural context where there is an expectation of reciprocity, in this sense the gift is always moving. This creates a ‘feeling bond’ which works to establish a community. The gift economy that is fuelling an internet art or web-based art community is built upon the very notion of trying to create community, an environment where ideas may be freely expressed and shared.<br /><br />Harrison’s essay, which particularly focuses on the emergence of web poetry communities, demonstrates how the internet allows for a successful operation of the gift economy, and illuminates the potentiality of creating an interconnected community where the act of writing is no longer isolated to the individual. Art can be continuously disseminated if we take advantage of the technology the web offers, in terms of it being widely and easily accessible (although there are still issues of the Digital Divide that may render this piece somewhat utopian) and offering creative potential. Hopefully the resistance to commodification will keep the goals of the community at the forefront and combat any issues regarding sustainability that may arise.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">References: </span><a href="http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/02/ka_mate02_harrison.asp"><span style="font-size:85%;">Joel Harrison 'Web Poetics & the Gift Economy'</span></a>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-75854444855030148202008-05-18T22:58:00.000-07:002008-05-18T23:12:59.499-07:00Winterling Packette - Chapbook Exchange<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFeoSKWscz141nV7VcTyDRbhEzvDMY7SbKc4yn-HismGlDrp_vkyZ1G4GHs-hiPtB7wOX-oWztWJxrkDJhcdfxnismIfcDJI0x3XbGpTsjAGQCz_JwY5m4_KEvBLUq-hCSbbSB4rAjMd9/s1600-h/DSCN4432.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201965532531329810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFeoSKWscz141nV7VcTyDRbhEzvDMY7SbKc4yn-HismGlDrp_vkyZ1G4GHs-hiPtB7wOX-oWztWJxrkDJhcdfxnismIfcDJI0x3XbGpTsjAGQCz_JwY5m4_KEvBLUq-hCSbbSB4rAjMd9/s400/DSCN4432.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I am very excited about the first chapbook exchange with Michael Steven - a wonderfully interesting poet and the creative mind behind Soapbox Press, an Auckland based small press <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">initiative</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Winterling</span> is happily associated with! Click <a href="http://www.insurgentcountry.blogspot.com/">here</a> to be directed to Michael's blog.<br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnEnita_Dlwk18ij7Tqg9eYkwZyVtFy09EktGP2aoDjnPBnYzJopFlWocqnMpV_gWhG61tHJ5rO9BibmeeTBA3PhPWtmXIni3phI4cAzGCIV8hTD3wkPdw4bTKitI9VoPiOVVAaUYtOPu/s1600-h/DSCN4433.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201965536826297122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCnEnita_Dlwk18ij7Tqg9eYkwZyVtFy09EktGP2aoDjnPBnYzJopFlWocqnMpV_gWhG61tHJ5rO9BibmeeTBA3PhPWtmXIni3phI4cAzGCIV8hTD3wkPdw4bTKitI9VoPiOVVAaUYtOPu/s400/DSCN4433.JPG" border="0" /></a>I decided to do an illustrated cover of sorts for the chapbooks - more like a sleeve to keep them in (although I'd like to do more thinking about the possibilities for these). I also wrapped a thank you note around a wee branch, in case you are wondering what that is all about! I love sticks, and Winterling is all about branching out. </p><p>- Emma X</p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-2504103229906649882008-05-18T15:33:00.001-07:002008-06-04T14:32:50.772-07:00Making Public: Internet Art On The InternetShamelessly conjuring up a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">hackneyed</span>, tedious debate - "public art should be decided by the people", and "all public is shit" (I know, boredom) - but this <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/art_in_public_spaces_should_be.html">article</a> got me thinking... the web is also a public space... isn't it? Is the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">internet</span> public or private? Obviously everything that is posted on the web is publicised in one way or another - it is no longer immediately private to the singular individual discloses - others may access it.<br /><br />Our whole notions of what constitutes public and private are ruptured, as Andrea Slane (2007) writes,<br /><br />"Many of the foundational socio-spatial practices of liberal democracy are challenged by cyberspace (private property, national boundaries, authority over the individual body), and these challenges have manifested themselves in legal battles over online trading in intellectual property; in the sanctity of homes intruded upon by spam, viruses, and unsavoury images; in jurisdictional controversies across national borders; and in the upsurge of legislative activity regarding online privacy (p. 85)".<br /><br />Relating it to art, it makes me think that no art is not "public" art - every artwork has an audience, even if it is the creator alone is the audience... Perhaps labelling <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">internet</span> art as either public or not public is defunct when considering the capabilities intrinsic to the web as a communicative tool and medium for expression, or when imagining that which is "private" or "not public" in any externalised expression - which is in fact seems impossible. Even though the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">internet</span> is a public space - perhaps <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">internet</span> art is not "public", considering our normative usage of the word preceeding another word, that being "art" - rather than positing all art/externalised expression as making public.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">~ Works Cited ~</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Slane, Andrea. "Democracy, Social Space and the Internet". <em>University of Toronto Law Journal. </em>57(1), 2007, 81-105.</span><br /><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/art_in_public_spaces_should_be.html"></a>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-59061447562461291622008-05-18T00:18:00.000-07:002008-06-04T02:05:34.935-07:00Electronic Disturbance Theatre - Politically Motivated "Non-Matrixed" Performing<span style="font-size:85%;"><em>“We abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theatre of the action. A direct communion will be re-established between the spectator and the spectacle, between the actor and the spectator, placed in the middle of the action, is engulfed and physically affected by it.” - Antonin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Artaud</span></em></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCs-tnqT39fLYjMR5gwuei5DNa8eUpPNFMp2LkcSWTHx5pPpW8Ue28Jtl-47nQr5nwiVEyCLoou2HkMfMDLJMF4Idr4QaW1EvtxPDj1OJMNWbA1mo6GYRdqWcIAALH7Ux5nSy1RE7Gz7nx/s1600-h/67stalbaum.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202238451933186866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCs-tnqT39fLYjMR5gwuei5DNa8eUpPNFMp2LkcSWTHx5pPpW8Ue28Jtl-47nQr5nwiVEyCLoou2HkMfMDLJMF4Idr4QaW1EvtxPDj1OJMNWbA1mo6GYRdqWcIAALH7Ux5nSy1RE7Gz7nx/s400/67stalbaum.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">performative</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">avantgarde</span> has long had connections to a political or critical social agenda - from Dada to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Situationism</span> to Punk. Working in the gap between art and life, or perhaps in such a way as to render this gap non-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">existent</span>, the nature of theatrical representation is critiqued from within a performance space. Techniques & deceptions associated with theatre are avoided, by way of creating what Micheal Kirby describes as a ‘non-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">matrixed</span> performance’ – that which is folded into/inseparable from life.</div><div><br />In 1998, Ricardo Dominguez and a group of collaborators engaged in online civil disobedience actions, in support of rebel activity in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Chiapas</span>, Mexico - the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Zapatistas</span>, a revolutionary cell fighting against generational government oppression, and are collectively known as the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT). Combining artistic and political agendas, the group utilises virtual networks to promote its activities - <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">encouraging</span> supporters to download and run a Java applet called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">FloodNet</span>. </div><p></p><p>Akin to hacker-tactics, or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">hacktivism</span>, this applet continually <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">attempts</span> to open nonexistent Web pages at specifically targeted websites. By constructing fictional or "bad URLs" (Web addresses of pages that don't exist on the targeted server). For example, participants were asked to input the names of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Zapatistas</span> killed by the Mexican Army in military attacks on the autonomous village of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Acteal</span>, forcing targeted servers to return an error message each time one of these "bad" URLs was requested. </p><p>Aligning the project with conceptual or idea-based art, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">fictated</span> URL becomes inscribed in the server's error log as a way of virtually (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">symbolically</span>) returning the dead to those responsible for their murders. Presumably if enough people run <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">FloodNet</span> simultaneously, the server would overload - so if a regular user tried to access the site, pages would load extremely slowly or not at all. </p><p>As Michel Kirby describes, “The materials of Happenings – performer, physical element, or mechanical effect – tend to be concrete. That is, they are taken from and related to the experiential worlds of everyday life. Within the overall context and structure, the details in Happenings relate to things and function as direct experience." <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">EDT's</span> virtual sit-ins operate like a happening (connect to performance/theatre), however with a more direct political resonance, analogous to sit-in demonstrations in which <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">protesters</span> block the entrance to a public building. Projects of EDT tactically utilise existing virtual-actual media networks and structures, Dominguez explaining their goal is to "disturb - and not destroy." </p><p></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-88103513647450659062008-05-15T22:16:00.000-07:002008-06-04T14:54:52.531-07:00"Eye Candy For The Style Hungry" - Well, Its Certainly Got Me Wanting More...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncxwcTokAsSuec7JUro8-BaPsGBJyHv1XFvHkoKFGV3sN676T18LPgFNF6wVls1WM5atUv1G2nMXih56huYgcq1r6kXRLv4fxvsDE56deZAKehzbmQ-8diI31vgUqn2sPsG1FxaC8Z_T7/s1600-h/IMG_2294.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200842677756299922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncxwcTokAsSuec7JUro8-BaPsGBJyHv1XFvHkoKFGV3sN676T18LPgFNF6wVls1WM5atUv1G2nMXih56huYgcq1r6kXRLv4fxvsDE56deZAKehzbmQ-8diI31vgUqn2sPsG1FxaC8Z_T7/s400/IMG_2294.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Along with all things sweet, spending time each day pouring over fashion blogs - a new-found wealth of imagery, has become a new found love, some might similarly call an addiction - although would have to admit (depending upon my chocolate consumption) - both are harmless variations.<br /><br />The impetus appears to be strong. There are so many amazing photographic projects undertaken by creative individuals - who post, sometimes as frequently as daily, results of their street fashion scouting online. I am struck by the diversity of approaches to the internet as an expressive medium for exhibiting the fashions of particular stylish people - resulting in blogs like <a href="http://facehunter.blogspot.com/">Facehunter</a>, <a href="http://www.hel-looks.com/">HelLooks</a>, <a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/search?q=">Satorialist</a>, becoming distinct social media objects - individuated from one another, each blog having its own identity.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCAzfiQE9svOUw0dYfk5OBa2C8Vn26RAjqKAT-BPbQI8OxLFhimP3hdfLkncPSxEgW104-8cOJuLey9uMCb1_lVDj9hmVwvNK7QiKvO13Xhc6VbSKcDmNNqQ48aJlq1u9ZcpzvNMOm2FX/s1600-h/R0023712.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200842682051267234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCAzfiQE9svOUw0dYfk5OBa2C8Vn26RAjqKAT-BPbQI8OxLFhimP3hdfLkncPSxEgW104-8cOJuLey9uMCb1_lVDj9hmVwvNK7QiKvO13Xhc6VbSKcDmNNqQ48aJlq1u9ZcpzvNMOm2FX/s400/R0023712.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This is apparent in not only the "kinds" of individuals that are chosen to be photographed (presumably, unless there is a call for people to send own photographs in, the blogger's attention will be captured by not everything, but a certain something), but also in the very way in which the blog is "present" within the diverse actual-virtual ecology that is the internet. The blogger must make particular editing decisions - actively controlling the expressive elements on the site, for instance how a user navigates, the layout, relationship between text and images, and associations/community listed in a sidebar.</p><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPc_tFKV9avMqFhiLqkr42UpSZ9UCQjCbSVp14lQR94MTcik-7skJUG9fIAXulANI23V2PTWYUYcTkt9IeFrYjR1nTQww6-9xmx3Tl8Ps7S6Tvnz-AQ2oKXKnDpb95ZI5aZ-JAO2YBAOn/s1600-h/R0111949.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200842682051267250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPc_tFKV9avMqFhiLqkr42UpSZ9UCQjCbSVp14lQR94MTcik-7skJUG9fIAXulANI23V2PTWYUYcTkt9IeFrYjR1nTQww6-9xmx3Tl8Ps7S6Tvnz-AQ2oKXKnDpb95ZI5aZ-JAO2YBAOn/s400/R0111949.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></p><br /><br /><p>Following Gell, who examines the social context as art - the production, circulation, and reception, rather evaluating art upon whether it is of aesthetic value or some other merit - like innovation or originality, an examination of the social context of fashion blogs is an appropriate way to examine these blogs as art. While there are evaluations of blogs upon the basis of aesthetics or sophistication, (this site <a href="http://www.fashioniq.com/wordpress/2007/04/23/top-50-fashion-blogs-in-the-us/">here</a> is an example, although I must say I appreciate their focus on independently produced blogs), it is perhaps more interesting or suitable to examine the ways in which certain social processes have brought about the production and circulation of fashion blogs, and would better explain why the internet has been used for this type of social and creative activity. </p><br /><br /><p>I have noticed fashion bloggers are commonly preoccupied with exhibiting the images they collect from a particular city, usually the one they live in. However Facehunter is seen to travel across the Continent and to North America even, collecting images for his now, extremely well-known, blog. Perhaps fashion blogs are a new way to "image" the city or a new form of urban art?<br /></p><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbHKAHqjDBbsPvVsOTpb27YzVHpsHbU3wBFiPiAeKZtTw81Sov9Ecfl7ht1JZj0iGqR4akqFO4j6705DTl6QoQvz7IvvYfqOrtW0mb35AqXd8YHvzEL3o1N79qfAY5NeDbOv3YZHu5AwK/s1600-h/R0098469.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200842682051267266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbHKAHqjDBbsPvVsOTpb27YzVHpsHbU3wBFiPiAeKZtTw81Sov9Ecfl7ht1JZj0iGqR4akqFO4j6705DTl6QoQvz7IvvYfqOrtW0mb35AqXd8YHvzEL3o1N79qfAY5NeDbOv3YZHu5AwK/s400/R0098469.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br /><p>Examining the social context as art, allows us to evaluate why street fashion blogging and photo sharing between geographically distant cities has become so popular in the last few years, and enables an appreciation of the diverse creativity and expressivity found online.<br /></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">The above images are some of my favourites all taken from Facehunter archives.</span></em><br /></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102259959146339616.post-35395088555863542252008-05-12T02:09:00.000-07:002008-05-12T03:20:02.210-07:00Winterling Activity: A Project Completed & A Call To (Writerly) Arms...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlofyjz1bfsua6esjpAxOzJa0iDAW2Co3fjG6sa9dk2rLXQdeCX2bgfn8iHrfXdQ0k_1sJ-jn3-FOPKoy71FDnzjgg7ylipoEehSDazdTEz8U7dNyTR5d_dySLzG4VuR_cNxfqeh8mnbB/s1600-h/DSCN4352.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199418058579053106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlofyjz1bfsua6esjpAxOzJa0iDAW2Co3fjG6sa9dk2rLXQdeCX2bgfn8iHrfXdQ0k_1sJ-jn3-FOPKoy71FDnzjgg7ylipoEehSDazdTEz8U7dNyTR5d_dySLzG4VuR_cNxfqeh8mnbB/s400/DSCN4352.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Determined to publish ten copies of two different chapbooks ... <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Winterling</span></span> Chapbook Project One is finally complete! Check out those lovely sewn signatures... After endlessly long and busy days at university sitting in front of a computer and/books working hard, meant any time I could squeeze in for chapbook making was always a happy and welcome change. I particularly enjoyed repeating a set of delightfully creative but methodical actions - the book making process has been certainly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">rewardingly</span></span> relaxing for me these past few weeks.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrkoFtgbJYY7UFfj_GAjl18w3_HgCwD_KQ442iYgCXnJyv3pcO3zQeU8UkXDRb3wvRiVLsUhrZVuiHjoBaZckzxx7b0gDPxtXMbQowIDRS1NmqjWAPsLIWuLiLudRawo0xlZBSb_IQXdc/s1600-h/DSCN4343.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199417848125655522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrkoFtgbJYY7UFfj_GAjl18w3_HgCwD_KQ442iYgCXnJyv3pcO3zQeU8UkXDRb3wvRiVLsUhrZVuiHjoBaZckzxx7b0gDPxtXMbQowIDRS1NmqjWAPsLIWuLiLudRawo0xlZBSb_IQXdc/s400/DSCN4343.JPG" border="0" /></a>Chapbooks one and two from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Winterling</span></span> Series One, are <em>As For We Love, At The Instant As Being Entirely Different From It.</em> & <em>there is always the impossibility of being able to move sideways. </em>Thank you to Campbell for single-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">handedly</span></span> taking the printing task on board, I am sending you my love here. (We are using an ink-jet to print these, and for anyone who prints books like this will understand the initial trials and tribulations that accompany this process and the difficulties in trying to explain it to someone else - perhaps this should be limited to the extremely patient, but I must say, a great way to start making your own chaps).<br /><em><br /><br /><p></em></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8VkIxUTVsj3AF4Xfyeky2EMNrxPqOIhLR-UqzvxXjpcv54kzA3YfZVTPNiRrCWu5OU-2gEc0r7pCoryFYh8M0X7si5ssozy5WJwAImUBFgnJ4Be6FE8WDZ05-mA2WL7fmS79hM97CbDz/s1600-h/DSCN4342.JPG"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199417852420622834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8VkIxUTVsj3AF4Xfyeky2EMNrxPqOIhLR-UqzvxXjpcv54kzA3YfZVTPNiRrCWu5OU-2gEc0r7pCoryFYh8M0X7si5ssozy5WJwAImUBFgnJ4Be6FE8WDZ05-mA2WL7fmS79hM97CbDz/s400/DSCN4342.JPG" border="0" /></em></a><em> </em><br /><p>I have posted about <em>there is always the impossibility of being able to move sideways </em>chap - in case you missed it, click <a href="http://asleeplessnight-standing.blogspot.com/2008/03/making-chapbooks-winterling-press.html">here</a>.</p><br /><p>The other chap ...</p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNy3MWwlehsYOjuGRcfXTJgrgzffKtR6dVBsG-oYYTIlzgyfISXbXvu0SAujaDPMeOJ_RcPnW513mmBCURIH-1Q1rIVGrDQ41xLslSGTik4cgYhunLay9fLy_qq-R21a23Xo3GQ4BosoP/s1600-h/DSCN4349.JPG"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199417852420622850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNy3MWwlehsYOjuGRcfXTJgrgzffKtR6dVBsG-oYYTIlzgyfISXbXvu0SAujaDPMeOJ_RcPnW513mmBCURIH-1Q1rIVGrDQ41xLslSGTik4cgYhunLay9fLy_qq-R21a23Xo3GQ4BosoP/s400/DSCN4349.JPG" border="0" /></em></a><em> ... </em>takes a line from Lyn <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hejinian's</span></span> <em>My Life </em>("As for we who love to be astonished") as the starting point.<br /></p><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6jtYKx6acnSxkBPbbGgOFZbolErxqOETrQTpUIF5C_p7P8FXYkzC6lMo4SuCDyCkVsIXf5_f0VcVkXnVLBI5VIBMoKKgbPIX23Du0hUnQCpQltc8dNzGdphiLfoux_JFUvC-fcwp_j1Y/s1600-h/DSCN4345.JPG"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199417856715590162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6jtYKx6acnSxkBPbbGgOFZbolErxqOETrQTpUIF5C_p7P8FXYkzC6lMo4SuCDyCkVsIXf5_f0VcVkXnVLBI5VIBMoKKgbPIX23Du0hUnQCpQltc8dNzGdphiLfoux_JFUvC-fcwp_j1Y/s400/DSCN4345.JPG" border="0" /></em></a><br /></p><p>This chapbook, is self-assuredly a poem (different, however related to, much of the loose form/method/style of poetic prose, or the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">faux</span></span> genre of prose-poems, I tend to use mostly for writing). It is concerned with pushing sentimentality to its limit, or outer-edge but also simultaneously constantly, almost exhaustively, reduces all to sentimentality. This poem was also written <em>for </em>someone, I had a particular recipient in mind and consequently I certainly feel something shifts or is shifting in the writing as it is read.</p><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KumJNe72x_h_gAkjCJRITdK35gNQLdhlZo8rZd2JxVSqSo-FcS_ezWwe7F6GbQgdmvVkSEA84VgqM87PwQa2Z-MW0FLPwchM4P_74aTx1I5NUdnOJgd2qTYo9Uq8IkZp7ndiggztfisa/s1600-h/DSCN4346.JPG"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199417856715590178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KumJNe72x_h_gAkjCJRITdK35gNQLdhlZo8rZd2JxVSqSo-FcS_ezWwe7F6GbQgdmvVkSEA84VgqM87PwQa2Z-MW0FLPwchM4P_74aTx1I5NUdnOJgd2qTYo9Uq8IkZp7ndiggztfisa/s400/DSCN4346.JPG" border="0" /></em></a><em> </em></p><br /><p><u>Plans for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Winterling</span></span></u><br /></p><p>I would love to hear from, firstly, anyone interested in participating in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Winterling</span></span> in any way, shape or form - I am hungry for writing (I want to make it clear I am just as much interested in publishing others), or anyone with an interest in book arts, making, crafting, illustrating or being part of this new-ling poetics community. However I should mention that I will be one hundred percent focused on the five University projects that I must finish over the next four weeks and am then going overseas for four weeks after that - so I will not be starting anything in terms of production or meeting with interested folk until after that - and it also unfortunately means that all my other writing projects are currently on hold, not that they haven't been stagnant for awhile now :-( However, I would still love to talk plans, potentialities and speculations via email, so please get in touch as soon as you wish to!</p><p>And secondly, anyone interested in receiving one of these chapbooks as part of a gift exchange - please email me! I am interested in trading my chapbooks for other chapbooks, materials, paper supplies, interesting ephemera, random collected things, with others - any artists, poets, writers, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">crafters</span>, or anyone who wants to be a part of this</span> .... </p><p>More soon! X<br /></p>A Sleepless Night (Standing)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07759176718783469829noreply@blogger.com7