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Founding documents #10: Jackets before gutters, gutters before spines, spines before interiors, dust all the time
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: Joe Potts, Eric Lindley, Janice Lee […] As to the cover: yes, a certain high degree of unadornment is perfectly fine. But I’m attaching here two simple “proof of concept” images for cover consideration. One is simply a sandpaper texture, as we discussed way […]
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Founding documents #9: Mock-ups are just mazes without walls (level up!)
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: eric lindley Superb! Thanks so much! I will continue tweaking and such. My eyeballs feel all crossed up, still, but maybe if I go read some Francis Ponge and then come back to the code… These sprites are all sourced from vintage arcade games. […]
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Interview: Felipe W.Martinez On Translating Joao Guimarães Rosa
•5 April 2013 Dear Felipe, I’ve been struggling to somehow position myself as a mediator around the subject of translation-translating all the translations. It feels imbalanced, uneasy-full of landmines. Further, I’ve been thinking a little about how I can conduct an interview without being the mediator, without forcing a path of conversation […]
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Founding documents #7: The glassy taste of clichés
[Definitions] Janice Lee Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM To: eric lindley Cc: Joe Milazzo , “[out of nothing]” <[email protected]> let’s do it! On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, eric lindley wrote: Yes! I like the idea of us each generating definitions-perhaps OED style, where we can play with the origin, etc, […]
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Postcardmancy
phi = the golden ratio n = the order in which our sendee ordered its copy of the journal f(n) = the Fibonacci number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 1, p(3) = 2 p(n) = the prime number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 2, p(3) = 5 round(x) is a function that rounds […]
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Founding documents #6: In themes begin responsibilities
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, eric lindley wrote: yeah, I’m really enjoying the idea of overabundance or hemorrhage to impropriety. let’s make it a large metaphorical note card. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Janice Lee wrote: > yes yes, very nice. > if we had an oon bulletin board, […]
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Founding Documents #4: When we came back to sending, we found our return address was missing
Call for submissions, [out of nothing] no. 3 / that there were some ah-ness to things Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM From: Joe Milazzo [JM] To: [undisclosed] Hi _______. I hope this message finds you well, happy, prosperous, all of the above. I’m writing to you: 1) in the interests simply of saying […]
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Founding Documents #3: A mockery of designs
1st idea: for this peanuts theme, I thought a little flash animation of a buy cranking a machine that is turning things or souls into color peanuts. and the peanuts might sprout up to become menus of some sort. and a kind of clashing between the sketchy, diagramy b/w and realistic color. or something. [JL] […]
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Founding Documents #2: As we stand on the cusp of email’s obsolescence and wonder what might have been why
1st ex nihilo book Janice Lee Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:02 PM To: Joe Milazzo Cc: Eric Lindley ex.0.nihilo, ex-nihilo, e.xnihilo, exnihil.o, outofnothing, out.of.nothing, ex0nihilo, exnihiloo, xnihilo, de.nada, denada are all not available exnihiloj, desde.nada, desdenada, shelling.peanuts, ex.parfait.nihilo are available … On 4/9/08, Joe Milazzo wrote: will they allow ex-nihilo how about outofnothing? On Wed, […]
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Founding Documents #1: Towards a journal aesthetics statement
[ex nihilo] some thoughts for future rotating titles / and or our aesthetics statement From: Joe Milazzo Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM To: Eric Lindley, Janice Lee Language I would be willing to sacrifice / adapt from APHORISMS BECOME ANECDOTES: How we long these days for those long-since elapsed days when nothing truly […]