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By: Plankton’s “Fashionable Grocery List”: SpongeBob SquarePants & Poetic Innovation « BIG OTHER

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:17:41 +0000

[...] “a poem off the page” (and here I’m thinking of Jac Jemc’s interesting post “Text Off the page”). There are two precedents that come to mind. The first is the Russian conceptualist Lev Rubinstein [...]

By: the scowl » Blog Archive » Reading on Reading: 19 October 2009

the scowl » Blog Archive » Reading on Reading: 19 October 2009 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:27 +0000

[...] affiliated with The Chapbook Review — has launched. Good stuff, with topics ranging from text separated from the page (which put me in mind of this) to authors’ final wishes concerning their [...]

By: John Madera

John Madera — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:24:34 +0000

Wow!

By: John Madera

John Madera — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:23:10 +0000

Skin is an incredible project. Someone should do it again, but this time it should be a scarification project.

I love Shelly Jackson’s work. Was lucky to hear read and meet her at the &Now Conference.

By: Ross Brighton

Ross Brighton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:35:55 +0000

Those Joseph Kosuth pieces (I assume he did “five words in white neon” as well draw from Stein:
http://www.ubu.com/concept/stein_five.html

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Ryan W. Bradley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:26:10 +0000

holy shit, that’s incredibly awesome!

By: John Dermot Woods

John Dermot Woods — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:20:37 +0000

My friend Aaron Renier did this installation based on his idea of “concrete comics.” He turned a room into a comic.
http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/egads/showart?show=rnr.0064&idonly=rnr&seq=115

By: John Madera

John Madera — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:57:46 +0000

Great post Jac! I remember way back Holzer’s work with text on the abandoned porn theater marquees on 42nd Street in NYC before it became a themepark on sidewalks.

Here were some of the texts:

MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE

A MAN CAN’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A MOTHER

BOREDOM MAKES YOU DO CRAZY THINGS

And a link:
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/1994/42ndStreetYear2/42street/artist_html/artist10a.html

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Ryan W. Bradley — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:57:49 +0000

yeah, we’re called Tree House Books, a small little joint that my mother-in-law owns. it’s been around for 31 years, but may be on its last legs.

those rocks are like those horrible bumper stickers that try to be life-affirming.

my wife and i considered applying for Skin… i know there was some photographer who did nude portraits with text written on the bodies… and there have been a few magazine covers where they’ve done something similar.

By: Jac Jemc

Jac Jemc — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:52:57 +0000

You run a children’s bookstore, right? I’ve been selling children’s books for 4 years. Well, now I also sell adult books, but kids books are one of my specialties in the store. What’s your store called?

Oh, those rocks! I HATE those rocks. I remember one year, for my mom’s birthday, all she wanted was a black flat rock that was engraved, “CREATE.” ugh.

Yeah, there’s that Shelley Jackson project, Skin, where she’s tattooed 2095 people with a single word of a story. Do you know others?