Having waaay too much fun on DeviantART for my Electronic Lit collage project. If you've never wandered that way, check it out. I'll never search Flickr for inspiration again.
Yankee doodle came to town
riding on a pony
stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni
He gazed at her, perhaps having had his vision of consensus as others do orgasms, face now smooth, amiable, at peace. She didn't know him. Panic started to climb out of a dark region in her head. "Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle."
Vonnegut-isms...
One of my favorites.
I took this nearly a year ago, at a show in Savannah, GA. Can't believe I haven't come across it until now.. cool picture. Now I'm feeling nostalgic.. That was a really fun time. (*missing brandon and kaylee*)
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There are leprechauns in Mobile, Alabama. This news report, and the subsequent viral remix of it, just made my day.
Compliments of my e-mail discussion thread for Internet Literature. The author of this thread makes a case for the leprechaun story in relation to Italo Calvino's memo about Quickness in "Six Memos for the Next Millenium", which refers to storytelling's fast pace based on the journey of a signifier. She writes: "Just as the horse is the emblem of speed in Boccaccio's novella, the Leprechaun is the emblem of quickness in this news report. The symbolism of an object may be more or less explicit, but it is always there. This character is the object that connects each person in the feature, creating a cyclic motion to keep the story together and relevant."Read my post about Calivo's brilliant memos here: http://gracest.posterous.com/thus-astride-our-empty-bucket-we-shall-face-t ....i wanna know where the gold at. i want the gold. give me the gold. i want the gold.
from "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" by Italo Calvino. The book consists of lectures in which Calvino posits that there are five inherent qualities of literary art that will carry into the future, no matter how communication technology alters the form in which literature is expressed: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. The 6th lecture, which was not completed before his death, was to be consistency. This quote is extracted from the lecture on lightness, in reference to a Kafka folktale positing that when one frees oneself from earthly needs or burdens (the "empty bucket") one is able to achieve a lightness of thought and ideology. An "unbearable lightness of being" if you will. Calvino maintains that one of the cornerstones of literature is emulating, and allowing readers to dwell within, this lightness of thought and being. I'm reading the book for an E-Lit class, and although a challenging read I am quite enjoying it.
my favorite line from You've Got Mail.. a movie which I admittedly like. maybe there's relationship hope for all of us buried somewhere in social networking.
today marks my last "first" day of classes... weird. I wish i had a pencil bouquet to make it a bit better
