What can be done with a typewriter:
- production of a zine or illustrated book w/out the inconvenience of a computer
- song lyrics typed for easy singing
- warning signs
- transcriptions of dialogue from old Peanuts cartoons.
- any of the above, directly onto cap-gun paper-tape caps.
New ribbons can be purchased at Ace Typewriter.
Checking in on compositions planned for I Know Who's Drowned - It's Us. You can check the Kickstarter page here
Perhaps rather than making insular work, one should make work about insularity. Really? I'll have to go look that up. Now there are a bunch of middle school students waiting to learn how to stitch notebooks and maintain an inward and outward observational practice of their own. Expanding circles of insularity. inward and outward/ inward and outward
Step one: Don't let your children learn how to read; they will become boring, you will be forced to draw the younger ones, as the older ones will be off reading. Don't spend all your time hanging about waiting to draw your family, because then you will become boring. The purpose of learning to draw your family is to prevent you from becoming boring.
That is how it begins at least. It goes on like that for several pages (ten steps, 56 pages). It's mostly drawings. I don't often have a copy to pass along, but Reading Frenzy usually does.
The butter churn worked very well. It will be an enduring object. But today a voice-altering megaphone, rubber cat, and a cardboard box got significantly more mileage; especially the megaphone.
Stolen long ago from Bataille and worth paraphrasing again and again - the impulse isn't creative or destructive; the impulse is to alter.
"Oh... I don't know if I've seen one of those in a long, long time."
Now that Santa has moved out of Meier and Frank's Santaland (because Macy's is very bad) and onto Pioneer Square, we can't let him get soft or apathetic. And it's all right - we have a good lead.
