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spring "break"
Well, the cold hasn't killed me, although I've had symptoms in one form or another for over fifteen days now.
Despite the cough and fatigue, I've been keeping busy—partially on school stuff (I am snowed under by student papers, as I am every March) but partially on fun projects like finishing up the new Number None album. It's to be entitled Urmerica and we should be sending it off to be pressed sometime around April 1st. We've been working this week on mastering the finished tracks and I'm also working on an intensely complicated Photoshop collage for the cover.
It's a lot of fun to be concentrating on some visual collage-work again, and I hope to do more after the album art is finished. I've been thinking a lot lately about ways that my visual collage-work could be wedded to my linguistic collage-work (of the sort that I wrote about in the previous post). There are all sorts of useful pointers in this direction, not least Geof Huth's fine weblogs dbqp and Visual Poetry Clippings. Offline, I'm reading Figuring the Word, an excellent collection of essays by visual poet and letterpress artist Johanna Drucker, and this Mysticism and Language book I blogged earlier, which has an incredible amount of material on the conception of alphabets as spiritual technologies, not merely because they can express spiritual thoughts, but because the letterforms are holy unto themselves. Labels: personal |
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
9:14 AM
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