Monday, November 19, 2012

Some images


ENIAC, the inspiration for EPICAC



A lot of us were reminded of images of tenements when reading Tomorrow et.al.


Oh, and these only came up tangentially in the meeting, but....

Monday, November 12, 2012

This all too orderly kitchen unnerves me. I think it fits Confido or any stories that feature a kitchen, but it might just be that one. I think unnerving might be good.

songs for "Next Door"












Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Death with Dignity

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20221107death_with_dignity_bill_defeated/srvc=home&position=also

I was surprised last night that so many of our thoughts on "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" reminded me of the Death with Dignity bill proposed in our elections yesterday, because it's in some ways an opposite situation of the same questions of existentialism (our word of the evening defined by Thomas). Emerald questions if anti-gerasone is "against nature," while in our world an opposite drug, one that would end life prematurely, is in some ways under the same debate. The link above is this morning's Boston Herald article on the bill, which was narrowly voted against yesterday in Massachusetts. I know you all may be tired with political debate, so this is just something to mull over. One of those "big questions," you know?

Happy Obama to you all, by the way. And Happy Liz Warren!

-Lizzy

Unrelated to Aesthetic ideas...

http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

A narration on what happened in the world the year you were born. The technological aspect is very interesting. For instance, I didn't know the memory card was invented in 1991. Just think of how crucial memory cards have been to our childhoods!

Monday, November 5, 2012

Paper Inspirations for "Next Door" and "EPICAC"

Here are the papers I have!

Next Door:

"soft and awry, like an unmade bed."

ABRUPT

Divisi

waffles/waffling

modern communication separates people. but sometimes brings them together.

like doves from half a space that isn't here

FOLKSISMS

rebirth/born again?


EPICAC:

a lonely machine sitting alone writes poems in imagination for whole night.

ribbons!

Having more uses than EPICAC's language

are brains really that different from computers?

Love is not only a definition.