8 Comments

1. June 16th, 2011 / 11:59 am Janey Smith—

   Adam? It burns.

2. June 16th, 2011 / 4:01 pm mimi—

   I’m calling it awesome.

3. June 16th, 2011 / 4:19 pm Homeless—

   The
   language
   he draws on with such aplomb is, if he only knew it, tired, friable, eaten from the inside as if by termites. Only the monosyllables
   can still be relied on, and not even all of them. What is to be done? JM Coetzee, Disgrace,
   Penguin,
   2000, p129

   http://www.disgrace.co.za/sample/pdf/dis.grace_p001.pdf

   dis.grace
   is a hybrid art project that digitally
   re-appropriates
   South African author JM Coetzee’s controversial
   Booker Prize-winning
   1999 novel, Disgrace in order to explore the failure of language to maintain its authority
   in a complex global, postcolonial
   world.

   The work
   literally
   translates
   the full text of Coetzee’s novel into images using the Google Search Engine’s “Image Search” functionality.
   It matches each word in the book with its equivalent
   No.1 Google search image to create a new book, a visual text that is rewritten
   through
   the eyes of a global, digital popular culture.

4. June 16th, 2011 / 5:00 pm deadgod—

   Fire lives as the death of earth and air lives as the death of fire, water lives as the death of air, earth that of water.

   –Heraclitus

5. June 16th, 2011 / 8:23 pm Nick—

   Dina Kelberman is genius.  Her comics (Important Comics) are essential.

6. June 16th, 2011 / 10:26 pm queergrrl—

   Important Comics genuinely changed my life and I sent Dina an e-mail telling her so, and she replied.

   One of the best BOOKS I’ve read in months, and I’ve been reading a lot. It affected me and I hadn’t been touched like that in a while. Maybe since The Importance of Being Iceland by Eileen Myles.

   Goddamn I am going to buy Important Comics for everyone who’s ever been nice to me. 

7. June 16th, 2011 / 10:56 pm Guestagain—

   this is way cool, if you wait for all the images to download then scroll down at a medium fast speed, it’s quite cinematic and shows a cycle, I agree it’s a poem. it’s also fun to start a few of the vids all at once, a hugely amusing user participation piece, very thoughtful.

8. June 17th, 2011 / 6:13 pm bobby—

   And she parties like a mother fucker. At least she used to. She is awesome.