Posts Tagged ‘artifact’
Galleries of Scraps
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 27, 2009
I’ve just read that Passive Aggressive Notes, like Post Secret, recently presented some notable scraps in a gallery exhibit at KK Outlet in London. It’s difficult to discern whether the scraps on exhibit are originals or reproductions. Many submissions to the website are electronic — scanned or photographed images — so I assume that the [...]
Submitting
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
A person submits a scrap to a scrap writing website through either email or regular mail. These options indicate that scrap writing in the digital age operates through networks both old and new. The US Postal Service sustains what is probably the most successful scrap writing website, Post Secret, because all submissions must be mailed [...]
The Network
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 15, 2009
Person A writes a scrap and throws it away, loses it, or otherwise forgets about it. Person B finds the scrap, and either he/she or another person, C — perhaps a friend of B’s — decides to submit the scrap to a website like Found — either through email or the US Postal Service (sidenote: [...]
Scraps as Artifacts
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 9, 2009
I’ve been thinking about forging a scrap. In deciding what I’d have to do to make the “scrap” seem authentic (alter my handwriting? include a couple spelling and grammar errors? crumple, rip, or stain the piece of paper? use a ball-point pen or a gel pen? or a pencil?), I’d be investigating the rhetorical features [...]
My Scraps
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