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Star Crystal
This began as an exchange about the Pantone Color Institute and wishfully getting jobs there setting the colour of the year. We then moved on to found our own colour consultancy agency. My friend thought I would be good at … Continue reading
actualization of the potential form
life writing writing life … Daphne Marlatt “writing in order to be” In Sp/elles: Poetry by Canadian Women edited by Judith Fitzgerald perhaps the motivation behind the push to new forms is the need to find a way of writing … Continue reading
Cooking or Games of Stage & Set
Via Naomi Duguid http://naomiduguid.com/twitter/ Nigella Lawson “Home Cooking Can Be a Feminist Act” https://www.lennyletter.com/story/nigella-lawson-home-cooking-can-be-a-feminist-act Real cooking is what happens in the home. Restaurant cooking can be fabulous, inspiring, transcendent, and oh-so-marvelous in many ways, but for me it will always … Continue reading
Frag Meant Meat
http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/audio/not-what-siren-sang-what-frag-ment Not What the Siren Sang But What the Frag Ment (for Margaret Alison) From the 7 ¼ floppy record borders included in the box bp, published in February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario). Appeared in Konfessions of … Continue reading
undotting the i-candy
Felix Gonzalez-Torres B. 1957, GUÁIMARO, CUBA; D. 1996, MIAMI Gonzalez-Torres invited physical as well as intellectual engagement from viewers. His sculptures of wrapped candies spilled in corners or spread on floors like carpets, such as “Untitled” (Public Opinion) (1991), defy … Continue reading
Torque Variations and Matrix Manipulations
DWR first found these and tethered I keep reeling… Tautened Tongue Tension Taunted Tongue Tension (Tautened Tongue) Tension Tautened (Tongue Tension) Haunted by the taunting… And so for day 2133 15.10.2012
Meet the Wort Family
Anna Pavord in the preface to the Herbology section of Harry Potter – A History of Magic: The Book of the Exhibition (At the British Library) waxes eloquently on plant names and the very special magic contained in etymology. She … Continue reading
Transcendental Orphans
There is a smart aleck joke in the notes to Stephen Scobie’s bpNichol: What History Teaches. First the text block on page 118 that provides the “anchor” for the note in question. But, given the multiplicity of language, this whole … Continue reading
Dialogue as Exclusion of the Third via Noise Introduction
Serres Hermes I See Serres, Hermes 66-67: [doCtored with typographiC noise] Following scientific tradition, let us Call noise the set of these phenomena of interferenCe that become obstaCles to CommuniCation. Thus, CaCography is the noise of graphiC form or, rather, … Continue reading
Ordering Counting Questioning
John Cage Would I have to know how to count in order to ask questions? A line sandwiched between the following: Would I have to know how many questions I was going to ask? […] Do I have to know … Continue reading