Posts Tagged ‘materiality’
Book Dirt
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 12, 2011
What causes this familiar pattern of dirty splotches along the pages of old (used) books? I admit I got both books at the same used book sale, but I’ve seen this pattern elsewhere. It’s starting to give me the creeps. What gives?
Swimming
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 25, 2011
Here I am, in the middle of my project, just a little overwhelmed by papers and books and articles and notes and drafts and questions and worries and deadlines… and invention, arrangement, originality, compilation, composition, reuse, recycling, literacy, collaboration, distribution, creativity, and authorship and… I tried to remember the chorus I can’t remember the verse… [...]
Scrap Choices
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 29, 2010
So, when I’m working on a big project, like the comprehensive one I’m trying to propose or the syllabus I’m trying to put together, I’m constantly facing this really annoying question of where the heck to write stuff down. There are so many options: on the computer or on paper; in this little notebook or [...]
My National Gallery of Writing
Posted by: dkoupf on: September 1, 2009
Good news! My National Gallery of Writing, “Scrap Writing in the Digital Age,” is now available online. Here’s the official description: This gallery seeks scraps of everyday writing — lists, post-its, homemade signs and notices, letters, journal entries — in order to showcase the often unacknowledged, ephemeral writing that pervades ordinary life. Here we can [...]
Nameless Letter
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 22, 2009
I came across a new scrap writing website about a month ago but was apparently too lazy to post about it, until now. It’s called Nameless Letter and it’s part public art project, part ongoing scavenger hunt. Like the wonderful blog People Reading, Nameless Letter represents reading as a communal activity, something for people to [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2009
“To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” From: Perec, Georges. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Ed. and trans. John Sturrock. New York: Penguin [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 9, 2009
“There are few events which don’t leave a written trace at least. At one time or another, almost everything passes through a sheet of paper, the page of a notebook, or of a diary, or some other chance support (a Métro ticket, the margin of a newspaper, a cigarette packet, the back of an envelope [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 3, 2009
“[T]here’s something great about the physicality of the Britannica. It’s not disembodied information, not a bunch of encoded 1s and 0s on a microchip the size of an Indian mung bean. It’s a big old-timey book, a massive object that can squash bugs and light fires and make thuds. I know I sound like a [...]
Another Book!
Posted by: dkoupf on: May 14, 2009
Another book has come out of a successful (pseudo scrap writing) website: Postcards From Yo Momma is sort of a scrap writing website, neglected by me until now because what it contains is not exactly scrap writing. Subtitled “A repository of modern day maternal correspondence,” the site solicits goofy, odd, embarrassing, passive-aggressive, and otherwise humorous [...]
Experimental Typography
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 26, 2009
Awesome stuff here. Including writing with, not on, Post-it notes:
My Scraps
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