May 21 2009
“Where would we even start? Things got no head.”
“Take a ride through.”
“Ride through. On what?”
“East. Elmshire. Provost. Take your pick.”
“There is no East side.”
“Fucking dead ends. Nothing on this guy. Address undetermined. No numbers, I.D. Nothing. Who the fuck is this kid? Shows up in a tank, after a fire? One of two survivors, and [...]
Apr 02 2009
Start a production company and run it like a band, where each of the founding members of the group operates as equal members of the group. Companies, like bands, can break up, it’s founders dispersed. And the members can join other groups, have side-projects or cut independent labels. But the company, like the band, earns [...]
Mar 07 2009
An author’s lineage:
From shaman to prophet to assayer to essayist to writer, creative writing has served an intrinsically social purpose, often assuming the foundations of the social structure. Though the author social value has shifted under the accessibility of television, film, and new media, the author’s social role hasn’t changed.
Narrative is the only [...]
Mar 03 2009
More so now than in centuries past, writers and artists seem to be operating in a vacuum—not a cultural vacuum, but a social vacuum. There’s not a unifying school or a dominate theory, which has both positive and negative qualities. And while this approach is really no great revelation (Nabokov and Mailer and scores of others have employed note cards in their process), its one of the first to incorporate new media as a tool.
Jan 22 2009
Frightening and almost too close to something from a thread within a thread in an Eco novel:
What is particularly scary about Blackwater’s role in a war that President Bush labeled a “crusade” is that the company’s leading executives are dedicated to a Christian-supremacist agenda. Erik Prince and his family have provided generous funding to the [...]
Jan 18 2009
“Men die outside the library,” he said.
On creating a video diary, and one digital media short about creativity, art, and genius for the mag/blog of the author at work sketching, writing, and –in-general-working through various projects to illustrate process and the nature of process, to illustrate the dynamics of methodology and promotion.
Comprised of [...]
Jan 18 2009
The style of music characterizing the themes, tones, and elements of an American Gothic style would include artists such as David Bowie (though not American), Nico Muhly, Radiohead (also not American), The Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yea!, Modest Mouse, and Arcade Fire to name a few.
Megatherium parodies celebrity as terrorist, though not [...]
Dec 14 2008
The serialized sketches on this blog will eventually lead to the rough drafts of various projects and eventually print editions which this organization will co-publish and promote in revised editions.
This site represents the short segments and sketches illustrating a personal kind-of process, and one that hopefully doesn’t undo the mystery needed in art [...]
Dec 14 2008
Telling stories w/unique narrative structures: an actor’s career, or any given celebrity, unfolds through the successes and failures of his stardom, much the same way a brand/product’s value rises and falls relative to its perceived market value, and the value of its parent company. (Actor:film:studio::brand:product:company.)
As his career ascends, he metamorphoses from a character to [...]
Dec 13 2008
The new territories within this paradigm are legal territories, market territories optioned off as legal commodities—these lawmakers oversee the means in which corporations maintain their authority and wealth.
Logos represent banners of authority.
Science as a branch of metaphysics.