Posts Tagged ‘paper’
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… [...]
Scraptastrophe!
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 1, 2010
Bad news! Post-it notes have been found to harm books! Edward Tenner reports on his blog at the Atlantic that new studies by the National Archives and Records Administration have shown that Post-its leave adhesive residue on books, which can harden into a film that becomes acidic and can cause discoloration and brittleness of the [...]
Scrap Sculptures
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 28, 2010
Check out this cool article about the work of Nick Georgiou, which combines two of my favorite topics: scrap writing and textual recycling (literally — I mean, like, physically). “His vision is to turn something old into something new,” in part to comment on the supposed decline of the printed word (his recent work in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Post-It Notes
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 31, 2009
I’m reading Marginalia by H. J. Jackson, and I started wondering how marginalia — and the whole practice of writing in/on books — might have begun to change with the invention of the Post-it note. Then I realized that I don’t even know when Post-it notes were invented! Then I thought of Romy and Michele’s [...]
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 [...]
CFP
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 18, 2009
A cool call for papers dealing with ephemeral texts — their value and how to work with them (especially given recent technological advancements in the preservation and dissemination of texts) — is located here. (Why doesn’t it include rhetoric and composition as one of the many “cfp categories” into which it’s placed?)
Random Plug
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 14, 2009
Wow, check out this awesome grad course being offered in NYU’s English department this fall: The Social Life of Paper!
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