artefacts

Offering up this gem from China Miéville’s Kraken in...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:47:00 -0400

Offering up this gem from China Miéville’s Kraken in response to the “What is your favorite combination of swear words?” thread on Reddit.

spun outwards like a galaxy - notes from the W.S. Merwin reading on 5/12/13 at the 92nd Street Y

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:24:52 -0400

I was enraptured from the moment W.S. Merwin mentioned that the first time he was at the 92nd Street Y was when he was there introducing Borges. I love the fact that events on both ends of my husband’s and my often disparate-seeming spectrum of aesthetics have included references to Borges - William Gibson mentioned him as well in his talk at the NYPL. Merwin alluded to Borges again when he placed him in the long lineage of writers and poets who, like himself, faced the prospect of losing their sight (or were blind from birth). Rather than asking or inviting sympathy, Merwin (who is 87) seemed to accept and even welcome the challenges of his deteriorating vision and referenced the fact that literacy actually limits memory (something I’d never heard before, nor had I considered literacy being a physical as well as mental capability). Instead of giving a ‘reading’ he followed up his conversation with J.D. McClatchy by reciting a number of his poems - from memory.

Some memorable quotes:

“Poetry continues to try to express the things that cannot be expressed - the thing that ‘just got away’”

“She lost everything, over and over again - I was the first thing she thought she might be able to keep” (on his mother’s love after losing her husband and many other family members)

“So old that it’s in the oral tradition”

// last line of Richard K. Morgan’s “Broken...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:57:00 -0400

// last line of Richard K. Morgan’s “Broken Angels”

anoctopusaday: A heads up to all you octopus enthusiasts out...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:35:51 -0400

anoctopusaday:

A heads up to all you octopus enthusiasts out there - I’m offering 25% off everything in my Etsy shop for the rest of the month of April with coupon code 99OCTOPODES. If you enjoy my work, now’s a great time to get your hands on a print or two!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AnOctopusADay

(And as always, if there are any octopuses you like that you don’t see listed in my Etsy store, feel free to ask me to put it up for you!)

another not quite-opus

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:19:45 -0400

another not quite-opus

notes on gibson @ nypl - for @tdelucci

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:31:00 -0400

“literary experiences ARE experiences” - on his ‘omnivorous’ reading of everything he could get his hands on in his youth

the ‘temporal split’ of living in a modern world but surrounded by very retro culture

“living in someone else’s past” - the knowledge that our shiny gadgets will be someone else’s junk

burroughs + borges!

loving on springsteen’s darkness on the edge of town - who knew?

Proust on telephones

“the miracle with which I wish to amaze my reader would be an invisible banality to my reader” - on writing about cyberspace

“orgasmic experiences with pure information” - how his protagonists experience cyberspace

“i don’t think we can know how technology affects us. as soon as it affects us we become that which has been affected.”

Don’t know what I’m going to do with this one yet....

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:23:43 -0400

Don’t know what I’m going to do with this one yet. Also kind of dig the fragments of calendar around the edges. In actuality they’re from the mousepad I was using to flatten the page while scanning it, but they still look unreasonably cool.

love the way copic marker inks bleed through paper. here’s...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:56:00 -0400

love the way copic marker inks bleed through paper. here’s the back of this piece.

Birthday present for my mom - a portrait of her sister. I hope I...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:05:00 -0500

Birthday present for my mom - a portrait of her sister. I hope I did her justice. Miss her so much.

Kaverri Gupta, 1957 - 2009

"Then it occurred to him that reality seldom coincides with the way we envision it beforehand; he..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:58:00 -0500

“Then it occurred to him that reality seldom coincides with the way we envision it beforehand; he inferred, with perverse logic, that to foresee any particular detail is in fact to prevent its happening. Trusting in that frail magic, he began to invent horrible details — so that they would not occur; naturally we wound up fearing that those details might be prophetic.”

- - Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle.

So you see, it’s not that I’m a pessimist per se….

Earlier this year I was part of a collaborative project with my...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:32:10 -0500

Earlier this year I was part of a collaborative project with my friend Mike Lucio Sternbach’s band RAZOR BLAZERS. Along with 49 other artists, I designed 10 album covers for the band to be auctioned to raise money for the Kusi Kawsay elementary school in Peru. Here are a few of my covers.

// ernest cline, ready player one

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:39:48 -0400

// ernest cline, ready player one

"The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:20:37 -0400

““The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.””

- Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed

Favorite line in Dervish House so far.

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:54:48 -0400

Favorite line in Dervish House so far.

Check out the website I did for the marvelous China...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:50:22 -0500

Check out the website I did for the marvelous China Miéville’s beautiful, haunting & brilliant photo essay on London. http://www.londonsoverthrow.org

I tried not to imagine her in the House of Blue Lights, working three-hour shifts in an...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:00:13 -0500

I tried not to imagine her in the House of Blue Lights, working three-hour
shifts in an approximation of REM sleep, while her body and a bundle of conditioned reﬂexes took care of business. The customers never got to complain that she was faking it, because those were real orgasms. But she felt them, if she felt them at all, as faint silver ﬂares somewhere out on the edge of sleep. Yeah, it’s so popular, it’s almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.

//william gibson - burning chrome

(meant to post this to anoctopusaday.com - how...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

(meant to post this to anoctopusaday.com - how embarrassing.)

clarified octopus

: gel pen
: 8”x5”

reading list for india

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:12:00 -0400

Trying desperately to think of my 20+ hour journey to Kolkata as a blissful stretch of uninterrupted reading, something I’ve been craving for months. Jetlag and abiding awkwardness around relatives will make time for the rest. Here’s what’s on my list.

In print:
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
New Orleans, Mon Amour Andrei Codrescu
The Passage Justin Cronin
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
Torso Brian Michael Bendis
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec: Pterror Over Paris / The Eiffel Tower Demon Jacques Tardi

Audio:
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Iron Council China Miéville

On my iPad:
A Greater Monster David David Katzman
Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges

mixology indeed

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:26:59 -0400

@whymicesing I like to call this one “The slop from failed experiments, from factories and laboratories and alchymists’ dens, mixed randomly into bastard elixirs”.

3 oz. ginger beer
.5 oz sweet tea vodka
1 oz. dry vermouth
4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
2 drops ghost chile infused vodka.

octoctopuspus

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:59:31 -0400

octoctopuspus