Thursday, December 1, 2011
Every summer as a kid, my dad took me and my younger sister to a couple of new US states for a short vacation. After ten years of doing that, plus some school and personal trips, I’d covered 48 states.
Now that Jey’s here, I want him to see all of the amazing vistas and interesting spots around this massive country, so we’ve started doing a fair bit of traveling ourselves. But we ran into a couple of problems: first, what’s the best way to keep the memories of those trips alive in our home, so that we can enjoy them, and share them with others? Second, how can we display our digital photos, and further, still tell a story about where we’ve been and what we’ve seen?
We eventually landed on a solution…
First, a note on my experimental literature monthly project. Taking on a new, totally unexpected freelance position has suddenly reduced my spare time to almost zero, and I’m scrambling to regain balance between my work and personal lives. Unfortunately, that’s also meant that the several writing side projects I’ve had going have taken the brunt, [...]
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Lately I’ve become really interested in the way fiction authors play with the form of narrative in their work. There are essentially two ways of doing this: one, to write within a set of self-imposed constraints to transcend the traditional relationship of a reader to a book (on the more experiential side of the spectrum), [...]
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Tagged 253, Ana Castillo, B.S. Johnson, Dada, Diary of an Amateur Photographer, Dictionary of the Khazars, experimental fiction, Gentleman, Geoff Ryman, Georges Perec, Graham Rawle, Hopscotch, House of Leaves, Hurts, hypertext, interactive fiction, Italo Calvino, Jason Shiga, Joe Stretch, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Labyrinths, Laurence Sterne, Life: A User's Manual, Mark Z. Danielewski, McSweeney's Issue 16, McSweeney's Issue 22, Meanwhile, Milorad Pavić, Oulipo, Robert Coover, Scott McCloud, Spotify, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, The Mixquiahuala Letters, The Ticket That Exploded, The Unfortunates, webcomics, William S. Burroughs, Woman's World
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