Book Jam
Book Jam: an exercise.
As an exercise in speed and creativity without preciousness, the following exercise has been devised, and its first run is documented below.
THE RULES;
a. Find a collaborator.
b. Pick a short text. 100 words or less.
c. Make up some rules - these can indicate methods to follow, or they can just be rules.
d. Construct a book with materials and processes at hand, using the text and whatever embelishments seem appropriate to the text. Prior planning or expectations of outcome are not allowed.
e. Complete the project (from step d) within one hour.
f. Document the resulting book.
The collaboration: Antonia Pont and Emma Cowan, March 9 2008.
The text: Louis George Borges (The List)
View images as slide show here, or scroll down to flick through this first edition (of 1)
(click on the image above to flick through the slideshow book)
...a certain Chinese encyclopaedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.
In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into
a) those that belong to the em-
peror;
b) embalmed ones;
c) those that are trained;
d) suckling pigs;
e) mermaids;
f) fabulous ones;
g) stray dogs;
h) those that are included in these classifications;
i) those that tremble as if they were mad;
j) in-numerable ones;
k)those drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush;
l) etcetera;
m) those that have just broken the flower vase;
n) those that at a distance resemble flies.
The whale appears in the sixteenth category: it is viparous, oblong fish.
well, i wanted to comment
well, i wanted to comment about the slimness of light and that i like the way the insides of the pages are folded i like how collaboration is maybe a form of fusion and so are deadlines. i am thinking about typewriters and stitches and methods of working into rather that on the paper when printing it, and i'm also thinking, thanks to you two, about embedding new words into old lists sideways.
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choice book! I am going to
choice book!
I am going to try one of the recipes
So, in the end it took us 2
So, in the end it took us 2 hours and 6 minutes, but we blame the slow computer.
I think also, that if we had made the rule: book must be constructed within 2 hours, it might have taken us 4 hours.
I look forward to the next one.
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