Jim Andrews
Since the beginning
Works in Victoria Canada

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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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DISCUSSION

need cheap accomodation in Santa Monica 04/19 to 05/19


A friend from Germany, Martin Kloss--multimedia programmer extrordinaire--is
visiting Santa Monica 04/19 to 05/19 and is looking for accomodation.

He says:

"I'll be in Los Angeles, to be precise Santa Monica from
04/19 - 05/19, and as this is a spontaneous thing,
I'm now looking for places to stay without spending
the millions I earned with Lingo coding."

Not. He goes on to say:

"So if aynone knows someone who knows someone who's
looking for a temporary roommate or can you recommend
affordable accommodations in Santa Monica, I would
really appreciate it. Time is running out and any hint
will help. I've looked at http://losangeles.craigslist.org
and other sites, but the average >$2K / month is a little
steep for my budget."

Martin helped me with Arteroids and On Lionel Kearns. His sites are
http://lingopark.de and http://martinkloss.com .

Please backchannel me at jim@vispo.com if you can help.

Thanks,
ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Sound/Visual/Digital Poetries in Seattle, March 30: Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Nico Vassilakis, Jim Andrews


If you're near Seattle on March 30, Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Nico Vassilakis
and myself are featured during an evening of sound/visual/digital/poetries.
Details at http://tinyurl.com/ypgtpo .

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Dead is as Dead does


no doubt. but are we so castrated by the flow of massive volumes of
information that we can't take action and if we do are we doomed to fail?

is that an excuse for doing nothing?

ja?

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Dead is as Dead does


> ah you poor soul, it was a fiction, and not all fictions have
> happy endings. sorry about those detainees you are worried about.
> what are you doing to help them?
> Joe Edit

Talking with you apparently, which, I grant, is very little.

I read an exceptional review of poetry yesterday at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Burt2.t.html . It's exceptional because it isn't vague and primarily promotional. But, also, it's a writing about a type of poetry that considers a different notion of significance.

Sentences themselves are rarely 'profound'.

Usually people do not write to be 'profound' but to work things through, to bring things out, to consider what is going on or what could be going on.

The force of writing is largely in what we infer, what we are able to make of the situations. I suppose that is often said by saying it's what is shown rather than what is told.

When the book of poems from the Guantanamo detainees comes out (the book is mentioned in http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2021897,00.html ), I think we should pay attention to it not only for what it tells but for what it shows. This is actually something that poets can truly help with.

The significance of poetry is not simply a matter of style or pedigree. That these people should turn to poetry at such a time as they are enduring is, to me, profound.

ja

DISCUSSION

Animator vs. Animation


http://www.elemanyak.com/chelov.swf reminds me of the couple of looney tune
animations where the character is pitted against the animator. i think there
was one with daffy vs bugs as animator and one with bugs vs elmer as
animator.

only this is in the flash interface. and the characters are generic.

ja
http://vispo.com