Category: blog
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Bookless
There was a time I was bookless. Then between 2013 and 2017, I published Hool, a week into the weird, The Bronze Age, melon cereal, better by foot, 100 Word of the Day Poems, and TRAPPED IN DEJA VU TV. I’m bookless again for the time being.
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The Guy with the Giant Business Card
Are you tired of being Some Idiot with a Normal Business Card? Are you looking for bigger returns on your business card? Why the Giant Business Card Works Makes a big first impression that distinguishes you from those using regular-sized business cards. Serves as the billboard of business cards, turning simple “contact me” stationary into…
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10 Alternatives to Saying “What Bug Crawled Up Your Ass?” When Someone Acts Irritated
What kind of cockroach flew into your tushy? What cricket scooted into your caboose? What caterpillar transformed into a butterfly and occupied your booty? What ladybug leaped into your bum? What ant climbed into your anus? What insect inched its way into your derrière? What millipede leaped into your rear? What grasshopper hopped into your…
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“Feel” Project Part 12: Knowing How Much To Do
Refining time. How to stay interested after a breakthrough? Knowing how much to do, how many pieces to keep adding, when to cut it off. The project can scale as large or as small as I want at this point really. Not entirely sure how to approach that. I’m going to keep adding pieces since…
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James Franco Tongue Twisters
Frankly Franco freezes frolicking funky frogs James Franco fairs well wearing fake fangs following a fan’s family James Franco got flack for flunking Frank James Franco trims the timid fringes from his favorite fern James Franco farts strawberry jam during magic fairs James Franco was recently censored for drinking his shrink’s shrunken Frescas James Franco…
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“Feel” Project Part 11: Total Breakthrough
Coming together of the lines and visuals Using Creative Commons Zero (CC0) pictures from Pexels Embracing dropping in images, embracing only using the editing tools available in Google Slides and not going to Photoshop or Illustrator Completely embracing a Twitter meme format while also playing with the confines of it using the space available on…
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“Feel” Project Part 10: A Path is Emerging
Two distinct lines of creation, the visual and the verbal, that will come together for the picture book slideshow. The Visual Meme formats, especially Twitter memes, sappy inspirational quote images, and internet “new age” as visual inspiration A look I’ve been enjoying is a simple stack of images as seen by a number of simple…
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“Feel” Project Part 9: Tear gun, a pleasure-maximizing algorithm, remembering an abandoned idea of sharing creative processes, and searching through notes
Tear Gun Felicific calculus “The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at…
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“Feel” Project Part 8: A List and a Mess
Cut more material from the Google Docs Reformatted material to be single lines per bullet point, likely to do one line per slide Wrote new material while visiting MoMA – though more inspired by the space than any particular piece An idea to do this as a public Google Slides that I add to on…
