night fire (+ small voices)

(inspired by a "campfire" doodle and the line: "I doodle, you (hai)ku")



a sketch of a campfire at yay words brought back this memory of sitting at a fire,
watching wood sparks (night fireflies) and star formations.

will see if this works out, maybe march will be for haikus that are inspired by doodles and then turn into vispos, into combinations of new words and moments from the photo files - like this fire, from March 2007.

the fire moment also connects back into the past, to a collaboration between me and Daniela Elza, published in Counterexample Poetics. the titel of it: small voices.

i just looked for it, and found it by googling "Dorothee Lang Daniela Elza". below is the intro line, with link. maybe that will be another part of march: to combine the visuals with revisits of previous works.

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Small Voices
a collaboration between Dorothee Lang and Daniela Elza

"How to listen to small voices? We make noise, create things that make loud noises. All too quickly forget to listen to the very quiet, to silences, which speak to us in numerous ways. This theme encompasses both artists' work: the many ways earth/mind thinks, speaks. The invitation: Listen."

click to visit the small voices:

colors of now: yellow

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the plan this morning was to go for a quick walk, just to the bakery and back, but i got sidetracked on the way, or rather: sideswung (video to follow tomorrow).

when i finally arrived at the bakery, it was all crowded. so in an even further detour, i walked down the other street, to the other bakery, past the flower shop.. and then saw the yellow. walked on. turned back.

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& the photo effect, it isn't even an effect. it's a wrong camera setting, the one for fast moving objects.

today: a perfect mishap.

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(smallstones, day #4. more here in the smallstone blog / on twitter)

twitterfiction festival: sky. water. path. (or: a TVifi)

Twitter is hosting a fiction festival in November and they are now open for proposals:

"We want to invite authors and creative storytellers around the world to push the bounds of what’s possible with Twitter content. Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter — short story in Tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting — or, even better, how you’ll create a new one. The proposal must fit into the time window of our five day festival— but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."

The festival will kick off on November 28th. And it was this date that sparked an idea: i will be traveling in the last week of November. first i thought: okay, so that won't work out timewise....

Tvispos
..then i thought twice: i plan to send travel notes from the road. and a short format would be very fitting to catch single moments and encounters, in the form of short prose or prose poems turned into visuals: Twitter "TVifis. Here's the line from the proposal:

"TVifis: a Tvifi is a twitter-length travel fiction that is turned into a visual, and then both twittered in words and added to the tweet as visual."

The visual above is an example, and this is how it would look like in twitter:

Looking forward to the festival and the stories and formats that will be presented there.

PS: Deadlines for proposals is November 15th, so there are still some days to send a proposal. The hashtag of the Twitter Fiction Festival is #twitterfiction.

"A Monkey Puzzle Rocket Burst", or: reading Ulysses

today: very Ulysses.

it started with reading Beth Adams blog entry on finishing her read through Ulysses, starting with those lines that reminded me of my own attempts of finding the longer path into this book: "Last night I finished my major summer reading: on my third attempt in as many decades, I finally finished Ulysses. How do I feel? Well, I keep asking myself that question. I guess I feel relieved to be done and proud of myself for actually finishing it, bu mostly I feel rather exhausted, somewhat annoyed, somewhat amused. In some ways I still don't know what to make of it. Perhaps that's what Joyce intended, and perhaps that's part of what makes it a great book: the fact that you are never really done with it, and it's never really done with you." - more here: Ulysses -- and the Trojan Horse Within

the notes added a good spin to my day – made me remember the time when i got a copy of Ulysses from the library - hardcover. almost 1000 pages. an indeed heavy read, from pure size. - and the story that sparked from there. which now also made me log back into fictionaut again, to give that story a page again, quotes included. here it is:

A monkey puzzle rocket burst
"The things we do for books, she thought.."
(a true story)

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and a visual, with lines from Ulysses - a quote from page 34 / 35 of the copy i finally ordered last year, just for days like this.

Litterbox: mind/media

earlier this year, Jeff Crouch and i worked on a series of visuals with the theme mind/media. 3 of the images are now up in Litterbox:

Litterbox: perfect / facebook / future machine
(my personal favourite? future machine.)

for some more of our collaborations, try:
- Compostxt: under s core / real i ty / sed i ment
- Wheelhouse: Smiling Land / Underwater / Confitures d'Oranges

(hadn't noticed this before: all those pulbications come in series of 3)
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