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I'm bored. Somebody blog something interesting.

Posted by gvcarter @ 01/12/2006 05:46 PM EST

Everything cbd blogs is interesting, you grump!

Posted by cgb @ 01/12/2006 05:07 PM EST

Everything I blog is interesting, you grump!

Posted by cbd @ 01/12/2006 12:28 PM EST

If you like that piece by Ray, you might like his book The Avant Garde Finds Andy Hardy.

Posted by jeff @ 01/12/2006 06:56 AM EST

Um, okay, I'm game ... I was checking out Dan Metzger's -The Lost Cause of Rhetoric- the other day and found a reference to Ulmer's "Handbook For A Theory Hobby" in Visible Language that I hadn't checked out before...

Soooooooooo, I checked it out, and foudn this piece by Robert Ray in the same issue called the ABC of Visual Theory that is kinda cool.

He does something different for each letter: A.pollinaire, B.oredom, C.inema, D.andyism, E.lectricity ... etc.

One that I particularly like is a under V, which for Ray references the filmmaker Dziga Vertov.

An entry on April 1st, 1941, according to Ray, is something of a motto for typographical experimentation. Vertov sez:

"What conditions will guarantee success? Everything except the boring."

... course, there's much to be said on boredom's behalf as suggested by ... well ... i forget, and sense that this post may not escape tedium!

I don't know, maybe for this blog "The Tedium is the Message."

Posted by gvcarter @ 01/11/2006 10:06 PM EST