Thoughts & ideas from the last week

Random notes I have currently:

Pin the tail on the donkey? Pin the clitoris on the vulva.

Could I use a 'party' type installation? Fun, inviting!

Cards, party favors, bags, banners, wallpaper, confetti

tassel streamers (they're boobie tassels but like, for parties!)

'The tools of masturbation' - book

nonsexual objects that often refer to masturbation - banana, cucumber, zucchini, toothbrush, orange

And I also blew the banner up in size, it still needs a second layer in my opinion. Will update when I have it. 

Possible others? Could be celebrating something for someone else or yourself

'Anal play is okay'

'You should masturbate' / 'Have you masturbated today?' / 'You/I masturbated today'

'You/I don't have to shave that' 

'I used a condom' / 'I didn't use a condom'

'I tried anal'

'Don't forget the foreplay'

'Don't forget the lube'

'Support BDSM culture'

'I have a ______ kink'

'I am a sub / dom'

'The G spot doesn't exist' / 'Good luck finding the G spot'

Strips

The frist strip is more controlled quotes and the second strip is more random quotes.
Dose it make a difference? If so dose it give you a different feeling?

Design print/sell Website

Here is that website we talked about in class Thursday 10/24

https://www.spoonflower.com/

Broke some mirrors, probably going to have bad luck. I put together this little sculpture and was focused on the word fragment during the process.

past experiments (+ thoughts)

Randomly selected text with a randomly selected printer's cut. Fun exercise, but too much is left to chance -- it's fun to find meaning where none is "intended" but I'd like to be more deliberate with image/text choices.

From really early in the semester (I'm pretty sure this is actually some of the, if not the, first thesis-related work I made). "Hero" (from Butler and others) and "Man" (from Wilson and others), both translated from the same words. They coexist -- they come from the same source and refer to the same words and the same character, but they are fundamentally different. Mashing them together made an interesting composition as well as an interesting dissonance in meaning. I'll probably do more of these very soon, but with longer selections of text.

Other thoughts before I disappear from this blog for another two weeks:

Brian Pellinen mentioned a poem he'd seen, created using Ezra Pound's Cantos as a source, in which the poet uses only words that contain the letters E - Z - R - A - P - O - U - N - D. I can't find the poem he was referring to, and he admitted he might have some names wrong, but it's still an interesting idea.

Jesse Kahn, during my review, talked about "patchwork" text, where I'd take a selection of lines (say 24) and divide them in to 24 different translations, line by line. (Also thinking about mixing them word-by-word, which could have some interesting grammatical results?)

I'm not giving up on the idea I mentioned at some point for a survey. I'd ask people to rephrase or find a synonym/antonym for a given word, probably several translations of the same word. Maybe a positive/negative connotation slider? Wily vs. lord of lies, complicated vs. ingenious, which ones feel Good or Bad? Just thinking about the ways I could lay it out without a) having questions that are too complicated or b) having too many questions.

image & text spreads

Image source: nemfrog
Text source: Odyssey t. Wilson
Out of order, probably.

Experimenting with image/text interaction - how does having an image change the way we see the text? Is a photograph more compelling than an illustration? When dealing with "randomness", it's easy to find patterns - human brains are wired for it, I'm not the only one working with that subject. Any image can be bent to fit to a given context.

Experimenting with different ways to break up text: for another class (Approaching the Book) I took the same paragraph of prose and broke it up six different ways, according to six different rules laid out in this article by Rebecca Hazelton.  I plan to do more of this type of experiment in the near future.

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