more garbage art

Garbage art thrown away: A bag of rubbish that was part of a Tate Britain work of art has been accidentally thrown away by a cleaner.

NYC garbage sculptures and an interview with the garbage artist and a discuussion AIGA.org

poetry terms

A Glossary of Poetry Terms

HENDIADYS (hen-DYE-a-dis): The use of a pair of independent words joined by and, where one of the words achieves the effect of a modifier, to express a single expanded idea, as nice and warm (nicely warm) or Tennyson’s:

waving to him white hands and courtesy (courteous white hands)

Shakespeare’s works contain many examples of hendiadys, such as “sound and fury” (furious sound) in Macbeth, and “heat and flame” (hot flame) in Hamlet.

This is an example of a Heroic Couplet in Iambic Pentameter:

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come.
Knock as you please–there’s nobody at home.

spaminology

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Did you know there is a term for the pocess of “conning email recipients into opening messages, revealing passwords or providing other confidential information by appealing to their curiosity, gullibility or computing naivety.” It’s called “Social Engineering”

my spam poetry name

I’d like to call my spam poetry character:

Victoriana Fughettas

The name sounds right for the eccentric character we’ve been creating… and it’s an anagram of Authentic Soft Viagra. (But let’s not mention that in the movie.)

Forget your nuisances with potency.

Forget your nuisances with potency.
Feel the sort of love you hadn’t felt.
Indulge your lady night and day.
Your instrument will be strong.
Forget about your troubles.
Forget about impotence.
Just do what you want.
Defeat your illness.
Attain perfection.
Find your dream.
Easy as 1 2 3.

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typical shit

One of spam poetry’s inspirations might be the Swiss artist Dieter Roth. He is know for assemblage works made from trash, detritus, shit, decaying food, etc… and a series of poetry called “Shit Poems” that I can only find references to. I think he published a book of the poetry called “Typische Scheisse” (typical shit).

Also his work is relevant to the spam as meat idea: Roth made a series of Literaturwurst, which are basically sausages made out of chopped up books he didn’t like.

Here’s an annoying website for the Deiter Roth Retrospective at MoMA in 2004. Maybe the library has the book.

vector motion graphics

What can I say? Other than I’m a big nerd.

These clips are from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…. the graphics don’t look as nice smooshed into a small youtube movie, but really… does anything?

screen graphics as graphics

Hmm… this may be a little cheesy, but I stumbled across a visual example of what we discussed at our meeting last night… using screen graphics as graphics for the film:

We’ll want ours to look better… but this is something you see from time to time on the news. We’ll have to do our own experiements with the camera next week, and try to do it in a way that isn’t so news-y.

new trend: death threat spam

A new spam campaign claiming to come from a hit man is cropping up in email boxes across the United States with recipients ordered to fork out thousands of dollars or face death.