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LITERATURE: Voracious Reader . . .

. . . or ADD? Notice where the bookmarks in each sit. Actually I’ve been writing and playing in hypertext over at the Hypercompendia Flash Fiction site and haven’t been doing much reading lately except for Chekhov and poetry to … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Story Must Have a Beginning

I have left the beginner for the end, being hypertextually inclined to screw with linearity that way. Steve Ersinghaus is the starting point for the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project, a reversal of his role with Carianne Mack in last … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Sketch a Story

David Pender likely will find his place in the world within the graphic arts community. He has been adding his character sketches to the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project in the vein of realism to capture the story within a … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Everyday Stories

It must be the poet in Susan Ersinghaus that has her finding the beauty and story in the everyday world. Her photographic contributions to the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project have been spot on with Steve Ersinghaus’ story (yes, that’s … Continue reading

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WRITING & NEW MEDIA: Giving Life to Character

Mary Ellen Molski joined the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project a few days behind but her character studies are a lesson in drawing a face and stapling a life to a fictional character. Read this, #6 Rose, which I’ve posted … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Writing in New Media

I was extremely curious as to what Jim Revillini would be presenting in the 100 Days: Summer 2009 series; his expertise is in coding and jQuery is well known, but story? Yes. Jim takes something from Steve’s stories or as … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: A Picture Says . . .

Mindy Bray’s photographs for the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project prove her abilities to drill down into a story and pull out the meaning. Here she has taken the phrase, “repeat and vary” and found a perfect symbol in nature … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Verbal Visuals

In what she terms “verbal visuals”–and what a lovely term for visual story–Denna Hintze-Yates adds a unique perspective to the 100 Days: Summer 2009 Group with images that have the ability to capture a story into a moment, a single … Continue reading

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WRITING & NEW MEDIA: Story Through a Pinhole

As a picture framer I’ve come across old tintypes but didn’t realize that photographers still use the process. Well, artists like Jessica Somers do, with some heartacheingly beautiful results. Jessica is another part of the 100 Days: Summer 2009 team … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: With Paper & Paintbrush

Last year I posted here about the collaboration between Steve Ersinghaus and Carianne Mack (-Garside now, Congratulations!) that produced 100 poems and watercolors that has since been compiled in book form and were presented at a gallery showing. Well these … Continue reading

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WRITING: Story Through Poetry

Part of the 100 Days Project, Neha has come fresh off April’s Poetry Month daily postings into committing herself to another three months’ plus of daily poems. Neha’s strength has always been in her imagery, and she’s evolved into a … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA: Images of Story

I really need to point to some of the incredible work being done on the 100 Days: Summer 2009 project and one of those whose work is outstanding in its simple elegance is the photography and sound clips being produced … Continue reading

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WRITING: Story

Maggie claims ” I think all of you who write are so creative and good long-range planners, too! I can barely come up with one story . . .)  But Maggie is wrong. A part of the 100 Days: Summer … Continue reading

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REALITY?: The Determination of Dill

Yes I know; where have I been? Haven’t I been reading and why haven’t I posted about literature? Well for one thing, it’s spring and the seeds that hide in the corners of paper packets and the three-kinds-of-tomatoes and two-hot-one-sweet-pepper … Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA: 100 DAYS Teaser

I’ve put together a hypertext piece connecting the artists to each other and to their websites as: A Taste of Summer

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