Sunday
Apr132008
Ghost:Ghost
Sunday 13 April, 2008 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nmu3uwqzbI&hl=en] Spectres of Marx
Sunday 13 April, 2008 Saturday
Apr122008
gardening / monitoring
Saturday 12 April, 2008 grey red-squirrel irrelevant spokesman slammed as she said is on my fence eating it liable to to be killed by up to in and / or argos bought professional hedge trimming tool 400 watts challenge (brand name) power output at 400 watts blade length /tooth gap rat with tail taller than me: cable weight: estimate: my left thigh 14m tooth gap challenge (brand name and I'd have no problem (he boasted) a fine of up to £20,000 to run over a seagull for fun me an (interviewer wondered: n can you drive? ot hi ng t o me
Friday
Apr112008
Openned Interview #1: Allen Fisher
Friday 11 April, 2008 View project The Openned Interview series begins with a video interview with Allen Fisher. Allen has kindly agreed to be interviewed by Openned on Saturday the 19th of April. As part of the interview we want to pose questions to him which have come direct from the people/poets/writers/editors/publishers/noisemakers that have read, read and continue to engage with his work. Namely, you. Some documentation of the interview will be published in the Openned Journal which is coming out later this year (in digital and printed format). If you have any tugging barbs of curiosity regarding Allen's work, questions that you would like us to put to him, send them to editors [at] openned [dot] com as soon as you can. This is an exciting opportunity for a variety of voices to engage with Allen Fisher and his work in a live setting. We would also like to receive any critical papers and/or creative responses to his work which will be incorporated into an Allen Fisher project on Openned.com - the deadline for this is slightly less pressing. Of course any and all questions that we receive from you com will be duly referenced back to you in the documentation material (unless the idea of anonymity particularly floats your boat - let us know). Feel free to post and distribute the e-flyer which can be found here.
Friday
Apr112008
The finished coot!
Friday 11 April, 2008 From Everyone's Cup of Tea: 'The injunction to practise intellectual honesty usually amounts to sabotage of thought. The writer is urged to show explicitly all the steps that have led him to his conclusion, so enabling every reader to follow the process through and, where possible -- in the academic industry -- to duplicate it. This demand not only invokes the liberal fiction of the universal communicability of each and every thought and so inhibits their objectively appropriate expression, but is also wrong in itself as a principle of representation. For the value of a thought is measured by its distance from the continuity of the familiar. It is objectively devalued as this distance is reduced; the more it approximates to the pre-existing standard, the further its antithetical function is diminished.'
Friday
Apr112008
JOURNEY TO DAY by Albert Pellicer
Friday 11 April, 2008 in Albert Pellicer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOZTFzsMRI&hl=en]
Tuesday
Apr082008
Stefanie Posavec "On the Map"
Tuesday 8 April, 2008 
'Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space. The pieces featured in On the Map focused on Kerouac’s On the Road. The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space, creating works that are not only gorgeous from the point of view of graphic design, but also exhibit scientific rigor and precision in their formulation: meticulous scouring the surface of the text, highlighting and noting sentence length, prosody and themes, Posavec’s approach to the text is not unlike that of a surveyor.'
Sunday
Apr062008
Sunday
Apr062008
Portrait of Maggie O'Sullivan by Charles Bernstein, 10-15-07
Sunday 6 April, 2008 in Maggie O'Sullivan [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvqVLjOgQ7k&hl=en]
Friday
Apr042008
sonnet by colin herd
Friday 4 April, 2008 in Colin Herd p.s. i realised i didn't answer your question, what follows is my attempt it's difficult though because i've never been sure just how serious all of this is i mean you spoke of substances, and poetry, and mothers...? i can get my head around the first two, and the last two, but all three are like a venn diagram that is stubbly and smells of beer. when i first decided i wanted to be a poet (it wasn't long ago/ not as long as you'd think) i thought, if only i can be a poet maybe i won't need mothers, and substances, and stances but when i was shrieked at 'you don't want to be a poet; you're just too lazy to get on T.V.!!' i thought about it a lot because it was partly true and partly true and partly true and partly true and partly true but i like sonnets and so, it seems, do you.
Friday
Apr042008