Sunday, November 6, 2011

Type

I was on the porch a few minutes ago and could see the moon move because I had the reference point of a power line. 


On the internet I could find a man in seconds bending down to lick a woman’s vagina at a party while he masturbates.  Never try to subtract words, or anything fancy the time for that is overAnd God, if mothers were sexual what could we rely on!  Even if it’s light out or chemicals are on your hands take someone else’s food right out of the saucepan and put it in your mouth

It is right to talk about time going backwards because we just did.  And not playing with time is the wrong thing to doThis is Georgia font.  A new one.  Invented in 1993 specifically for the internet.  There's really some awful stuff on the internet.  

Georgia is tall.  Look how high that IT goes.  Love, oh be with me, you know your name, say it, type anything, because they're just letters TO SHOW THE VARIATIONS, but you're saying something without saying something because where this is black are noises and people you've never met.  

This A is in Times New Roman and has 4 serifs.  See the little knobs jutting out from each leg?  These are serifs. Serif letters create the illusion of a pen-stroke.  A sans-serif a looks like this: A. This is VerdanaNotice how the bottoms are flat?  I find these letters are more honest.  True to their formation.  For there was never a pen here.  

Verdana was designed to be easily read on computer screens (so this is the time for looking at pictures of Goldie Hawn on the internet). Verdana is a portmanteau, a word made of two preexisting words:  verdant means “something green” and Ana is the eldest daughter of the inventor of Verdana.  

Smog is made because the eye perceives smoke and fog together. 

Chatroulette.com is a website that pairs strangers from around the world for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website begin an online chat (video, audio and text) with another visitor who is chosen at random.

Recently we’ve been talking about the noises in our house: the little clicks and nudges that accompany the clock when you're alone and nobody else can say exactly what anything means.  
 
At any point either user may leave the current conversation by initiating another random connection.

There’s one from Tunisia.  And a little farmboy who looks wistfully away from the screen.  Behind him a fake fireplace shows the image of fire.  There is a shirtless child sitting all the way across the room.  There is a man dancing in his wheelchair, a furious masturbator, a shadowy room empty in Costa Rica.  And with a flash, a Chinese boy takes a picture of my face and turns the camera on himself.     

4 comments:

M LeSage said...

The topic makes us hyper-aware of what we're reading, and that that awareness gets played with is fantastic. Did you know humans don't see the black letters on the whiteness, but we only register the absence of color in the black letters? The way this jumps is exciting, actually exciting to read, and these are some of the most evocative lines you've presented to the class/blog.


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Ryan ee Mitchell said...

"Recently we’ve been talking about the noises in our house: the little clicks and nudges that accompany the clock when you're alone and nobody else can say exactly what anything means."

What I like so much about this line is that "we" is/becomes as ambiguous and mysterious to the reader as the noises mentioned. Like Mauricio mentions about being hyper-aware that we are reading text, lines like this make us aware of your presence, your exact experience.

c said...

This moves apparently randomly from a porch to a meditation on the internet to typography and back to the internet, random pairings, and back to (I presume) the house to which the porch is attached, its unexplained noise, and the face of our narrator photographed. Disorienting, and yet strangely intriguing and a pleasure to read. I'm wondering if typography might be one way to pull this all together, perhaps beginning and ending with more on type, or a play on connotations of type. Keep playing with this.

Anonymous said...

This piece is fun. I love exploring new type faces. I also like how throughout you play with the way that your writing looks. I would like to see you explore more type faces and different styles of them - bold, italics, headings, highlighting, colored type? I don't know it would just add another esthetic element to the piece that could be interesting.