Posts Tagged ‘handwriting’
Oh hi
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 27, 2010
Recently I’ve gotten the urge to rejuvenate this blog. I’m getting going with a big project that has something or other to do with scrap writing or patch writing… or collage… or compilation… or collecting — uh, basically taking stuff and putting it together, usually in some written form. So, maybe I can use this [...]
Scraps Are Hip
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 31, 2009
Mad props to Jezebel for “Teenage Wasteland: Your Old Diaries Are Awkward, Awe-Inspiring,” a new scrap gallery featuring scanned images of original diary entries submitted by women across the country. I’ve only just stumbled upon it and therefore haven’t read more than a single entry, but I’m mega-impressed. I hope you’ll all check it out. [...]
Scraps as Writing
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 19, 2009
So the NCTE is sponsoring this National Day on Writing on October 20, and I’ve come across a lot of references to it lately in my reading of blogs, Twitter, and the WPA listserv. The main goal of this initiative seems to be to recognize and celebrate the writing people are doing these days and [...]
Napkin Scraps
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 3, 2009
Wasting some time at Borders yesterday, I stumbled upon a display of this book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam. The bookflap states, “Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin is more powerful than Excel or PowerPoint. It can help us crystallize ideas, think [...]
Thinking
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
In what follows, I’d like to make some preliminary attempts at synthesizing some of the material on this blog. This is tough. While working on this project, I’ve come across tons of interesting stuff, but I often wonder what it all means. First, some comments on form: blog + “archive” Working on a blog rather [...]
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: [...]
Interesting Handwriting Website
Posted by: dkoupf on: March 11, 2009
Leonardo: Right to Left
My Scraps
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