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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.

links to garbage as art

Jerry Swaffield painstakingly pieces together extraordinary art from junk. (article)

Your garbage may be a work of art. (article)

NYCgarbage.com – this guy boxes up garbage and sells it.

The Please Take Museum will feature society’s dregs and dross—or just plain trash.

That Dave Barry guy complains about garbage art.

An article about a guy who combs through the dump looking for stuff to make art out of.

spam statistics

This site gives some overall spam statistics, as opposed to looking at any one particular group or mail server.

spam poetry links

A 2003 article from the BBC.

A 2004 Boston Globe article.

A 2004 Village Voice article about spam poetry.

A 2004 article from The Register includes a definition for Spam Poetry.

Wikipedia has an article on Spoetry.

Wikipedia’s article on the cut-up technique. (We may want to investigate this further.)

Spoems.com is down at the moment, but has a few relevant definitions posted.

SatireWire held a Poetry Spam contest, calling for entries of poems made from spam.

Another collection of spam poetry.

The Spam Poetry Institute.

A dude posts some spam poetry to his blog, and a big discussion ensues.

This seems to be a very… emotional critique of spam poetry. (There’s a 30 second redirect on this page – the cancel redirect button did nothing for me. You might want to copy & paste the article into a text editor to read it.)

An article about how a spam poisoner has also begun outputting poetry.

The Anthology of Spam Poetry… he seems to have a book coming out later this month.

This wikipedia article defines Flarf – a movement of poets who create poetry from Google searches.

The Flarf Files – includes a few links that may be worth checking out.

international dada archive

an extensive resource from the university of iowa, with scans of original publications

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/index.html