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Lewis LaCook makes things. He is a programmer/poet. He likes unstable objects. He doesn't eat enough. Send him all your money.
Re: Re: resentment...
Francis Hwang wrote:if that's not ideal than we can hope that a)
> Rhizome gets more funding so I can hire help or b) Francis gets
> less
> incompetent. Either way, the lack of sig generation was not a
> conscious
> policy decision. Sometimes code rots.
don't be so hard on yourself, francis----
yes, sometimes code DOES rot---it's not political, and it's not indicative of any desire for hegemony (like much of this discusssion is)--
bliss
l
> Rhizome gets more funding so I can hire help or b) Francis gets
> less
> incompetent. Either way, the lack of sig generation was not a
> conscious
> policy decision. Sometimes code rots.
don't be so hard on yourself, francis----
yes, sometimes code DOES rot---it's not political, and it's not indicative of any desire for hegemony (like much of this discusssion is)--
bliss
l
Nirvana Ice
I was born here. Coughing
unused cigarette smoke
into the creep of
a fan. I was born here
once again at this edge of
not knowing, Killed
slovenly by your
tucked-in hours, ashamed:
with amber light taut and
frigid as memory around
my throat. Born, not breathing;
breached by your promise, your
glint of orange and yellow of
forgiveness; so that here, four
hundred miles away, I flip
to the error of belly-soft and
talon-poised, just to hear you
coo for me, to break our wings on
water frozen closed. The air
has no parentage, no progeny;
I love its loneliness even as I grip
your ghost in moaning, drill
through my breath clear to
my father's grave, attached
by umbillical to this live feed
not found of myself, of myself
all fondness and mercy. Sentient beings
are numberless, I vow to liberate them all;
with a tiny slit in my mind I have
flattened my breath to fit
into my birth; and I spin.
I spin the air all over you.
=====
NEW!!!--Dirty Milk--reactive poem for microphone http://www.lewislacook.com/DirtyMilk/
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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unused cigarette smoke
into the creep of
a fan. I was born here
once again at this edge of
not knowing, Killed
slovenly by your
tucked-in hours, ashamed:
with amber light taut and
frigid as memory around
my throat. Born, not breathing;
breached by your promise, your
glint of orange and yellow of
forgiveness; so that here, four
hundred miles away, I flip
to the error of belly-soft and
talon-poised, just to hear you
coo for me, to break our wings on
water frozen closed. The air
has no parentage, no progeny;
I love its loneliness even as I grip
your ghost in moaning, drill
through my breath clear to
my father's grave, attached
by umbillical to this live feed
not found of myself, of myself
all fondness and mercy. Sentient beings
are numberless, I vow to liberate them all;
with a tiny slit in my mind I have
flattened my breath to fit
into my birth; and I spin.
I spin the air all over you.
=====
NEW!!!--Dirty Milk--reactive poem for microphone http://www.lewislacook.com/DirtyMilk/
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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These Two Now Starve for Sky
Stinging these chemicals from my eyes
with such soft hopes as wasps leave
in pumice and syrup trails, grinding light
until I can see clear through noon. Oh,
I do love you, packed in your new needed
shell, but I'm lonely for you, stitching
your words which you believe with
assumed large hands, jewel-eyed
clear through me to rotting cave. I struggle
to stand in this room, the dead and
passed still fucking me; you too
escape growing around this route. There are
two of them trapped between the screen and
window, and I'm too afraid to let them in.
=====
NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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with such soft hopes as wasps leave
in pumice and syrup trails, grinding light
until I can see clear through noon. Oh,
I do love you, packed in your new needed
shell, but I'm lonely for you, stitching
your words which you believe with
assumed large hands, jewel-eyed
clear through me to rotting cave. I struggle
to stand in this room, the dead and
passed still fucking me; you too
escape growing around this route. There are
two of them trapped between the screen and
window, and I'm too afraid to let them in.
=====
NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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New Work: Dirty Milk: ...a rootlessness, a disembodiment...
http://www.lewislacook.com/DirtyMilk/
Dirty Milkfor Renee
Dirty Milk is a recombinant poem sequence for the Internet, using your computer's microphone as a catalyst for transformation. My goal was to create a unique reading environment for the texts; it is my hope that the hypermedia elements (events triggered by microphone levels and keyboard presses) make Dirty Milk a literary experience unlike any other.
There are nearly a hundred poems in this piece, encompassing a variety of forms--prose poems, lineation, one-line meditations, varying combinations of these methods--all closely bound together, and all written specifically with this platform in mind. There's a significant degree of stochastic transformation as well; simply blow into your microphone as Dirty Milk is running, and watch the poems reasssemble themselves across the screen. This ensures that your participation in the text will yield unique readings.
The "themes" in Dirty Milk are the same ghosts that always haunt me: a rootlessness, a disembodiment quite appropriate to the work's form, pervades the whole. The poems veer between stark autobiography (quotidian jottings, dreamtime declarations, the mythos of the personal past) and a concern with desire, embodied in an alchemy of the sensual at many levels(perception is examined, the weather is noted, the phenomenal play of language tweaked). These are words in search of a character; characters in search of an author. Because you, the reader/user, are also a participant in Dirty Milk's manifestation, like all literature ultimately you provide the body for this experience; you are Dirty Milk's memory; you are Dirty Milk's hands.
Much of the technical inspiration for this work came from the open source Flash archive levitated.net.Many thanks as well to Christophe Bruno, who provided invaluable advice in Dirty Milk's creation.
To use Dirty Milk, simply open the piece after ensuring that your system's microphone is enabled. In Windows, this may require a trip to your Volume Control/audio properties dialogue. Find your audio properties (this can usually be found by double clicking the volume icon in your system tray), select OPTIONS, select PROPERTIES, then check the RECORDING radio button. This should bring up a list of properties you can enable. Check the box next to Microphone and click okay.
You may also download Dirty Milk as an e-book, either in Adobe .pdf format or as a Palm DOC (for reading on the Palm Pilot).
bliss
l
NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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Dirty Milkfor Renee
Dirty Milk is a recombinant poem sequence for the Internet, using your computer's microphone as a catalyst for transformation. My goal was to create a unique reading environment for the texts; it is my hope that the hypermedia elements (events triggered by microphone levels and keyboard presses) make Dirty Milk a literary experience unlike any other.
There are nearly a hundred poems in this piece, encompassing a variety of forms--prose poems, lineation, one-line meditations, varying combinations of these methods--all closely bound together, and all written specifically with this platform in mind. There's a significant degree of stochastic transformation as well; simply blow into your microphone as Dirty Milk is running, and watch the poems reasssemble themselves across the screen. This ensures that your participation in the text will yield unique readings.
The "themes" in Dirty Milk are the same ghosts that always haunt me: a rootlessness, a disembodiment quite appropriate to the work's form, pervades the whole. The poems veer between stark autobiography (quotidian jottings, dreamtime declarations, the mythos of the personal past) and a concern with desire, embodied in an alchemy of the sensual at many levels(perception is examined, the weather is noted, the phenomenal play of language tweaked). These are words in search of a character; characters in search of an author. Because you, the reader/user, are also a participant in Dirty Milk's manifestation, like all literature ultimately you provide the body for this experience; you are Dirty Milk's memory; you are Dirty Milk's hands.
Much of the technical inspiration for this work came from the open source Flash archive levitated.net.Many thanks as well to Christophe Bruno, who provided invaluable advice in Dirty Milk's creation.
To use Dirty Milk, simply open the piece after ensuring that your system's microphone is enabled. In Windows, this may require a trip to your Volume Control/audio properties dialogue. Find your audio properties (this can usually be found by double clicking the volume icon in your system tray), select OPTIONS, select PROPERTIES, then check the RECORDING radio button. This should bring up a list of properties you can enable. Check the box next to Microphone and click okay.
You may also download Dirty Milk as an e-book, either in Adobe .pdf format or as a Palm DOC (for reading on the Palm Pilot).
bliss
l
NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
http://www.lewislacook.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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