Posts Tagged ‘authenticity’
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 [...]
And Another
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 2, 2009
Fmylife, the humor website popular among pretty much everyone with Internet access — from my college friends to my dad — has a book. I really don’t know what to say about this. I simply cannot imagine owning this book. I cannot imagine reading it more than once. I can, however, imagine, once again, giving [...]
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 [...]
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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