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- What can I say? This description needed an update, because as life increases its demands on my time I find less is going into exploring culture, and more into the practicalities of everyday existence and securing some sort of tenuous Future for myself and those connected to me. I make it one of my commitments in 2007 to try and redress this balance. More good news is that I plan to have my own website up and running in the future, which means that for those of you dropping by occasionally - it can only get better! Loyal to my inspiration, I pay tribute to the evergreen Katicus, whose example started me off on my first blogging experiences. Her effusive and cynomical style has lately been honing itself amidst the peoplescape of inner city Moscow and the literary demands of The Stanford Daily. Surely it's only a question of time before her adventures become the stuff of pulp fiction! With that, ladies and gentlemen, I bid you stroll around my new-look blog and feel the gentle curvatures of amber-rayed ascii ink massage your moist, melting eyes.
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4 comments:
Mmmm man! I have been looking at these images.... every day since you posted them...they were intriguing, albeit simple in graphic terms... there was something really interesting in them but i never knew what was that.
Just now i realised... they are a real poem... i dunno whether you thought'em as a poem but, graphically and literary the are... and they make sense. I was thinking today while being 'underground' that you should consider publishing your stuff... I do think it is really good.
haha :-) lol, you are right there is something in them, in the arrangement. But it's also an "exploration" as the title suggests. I wondered what looking at a simple ascii composition would be like if literally "looked at" from different angles. Those familiar characters, what if we approach them as something more than the utility of words and sentences, as something more alive in their own right. And without getting wordy about it, but ascii art has been around a while - what I have in mind (in a more general sense) is also different from the somewhat literal representation in a lot of ascii art that I've seen (eg. http://www.chris.com/ASCII/ or http://www.afn.org/~afn39695/collect.htm and not to mention the complete translation of jpegs into ascii - that is just too naturalistic - see this link for what I mean: http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/).
haha... perhaps like Guillerme Apolinaire the French Poet?....
Apollinaire's "visual poetry" experiments were still tied to the restrictions of a typewriter on the page (wasn't there a eulogy written in the shape of a gravestone? [shudder]).
But digital technology adds a dimension he didn't have access to. Who can say where it will lead?
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