Wisp 13 — In The Wild
Wisp 13 is now released. Here’s my editorial: Exquisite Corpse by Éric P. Lemoine Spontaneity—genuine spontaneity— beyond what appearances might tell us, is not something that comes easily, especially given our usual upbringing which tends to bend or harness it into something productive for society. The Surrealist movement in the 1920s is remembered among other things for artistic and playful experiments that led to expanding our boundaries and views of reality by practising...
Read MoreGhost in the Turk
I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new experience, I register to see by myself what it’s all about. The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be automated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are relatively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.) These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee. I found some...
Read MoreLulu’n Design
After having published with much satisfaction a few books1 with Lulu (one of the main actors in the print-on-demand services) this post is listing some of the things that may be useful to know (or to remember after a bit of trial and errors) to design a source file that will produce the perfect PDF file. Black and white prints Not much to say here, the quality was correct, and the first PDF I created went without any problem. Colour prints A bit more of a headache at first. The PDF...
Read MoreCircle of Eights
The book has arrived this morning! It’s a compilation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a reference at the interlocking circles that brought our interests together, as symbolized by the pseudonym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nicknames. It is much more than one story actually, and quite difficult to summarize as it’s...
Read MoreSlowness to manifest
Internet is a fantastic and creative way we got to reflect the intricacies of our creations, and also the ease with which we can manifest. Think of how easy it is to order the last book or DVD — even if it has a very discreet distribution on some remote part of the world, there is always a means to get it. Back from a trip in Malaysia in the Cameron highlands (Tanah Rata, see pic) in 2001 (shortly after September), I was so enthusiastic about the atmosphere, the images I had in my head of...
Read MoreBoring or entertaining?
Lots of our daily tasks are tedious to do, probably a large percentage of them, by anyone’s account… But what if it were just a matter of perspective after all. Imagine that you have to sort out old files, and tag entries, or copy stuff. Can you imagine anything more boring? It sometimes requires the patience of a monk to do these repetitive tasks, like in the old days of the copyists, before the invention of the movable type printing… So what worse can it be when it’s the kind of...
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