Page Jockey

Taking on the approach of a music DJ. A literature jockey could re-appropriate short stories, poems, or passages from texts from many authors into a 'set'.

No machinery or equipment would be necessary for this performance. Although I would like to retain a few parts of a DJs performance, by holding each 'text' in separate sleeves, in a bag and bring each to a table one at a time, with each taking over the last as they go.

publishing pledge

Published donations.

Taking on a charity shop business model as publishing model. A donation drop off point will be set, this can be done anonymously. Differing from regular calls for submissions, this publishing project isn't asking for any certain content.

Just your old unused content, thoughts, idea's, drawings, essay's, poems, articles. Various practitioners will be asked if they would like to donate, but anyone is able to donate.

As like physical charity shops the buyer will never know the donatee, although occasionally items are marked with notable clue's as to who it belonged to previously.

Hopefully a future of the project could be a database, a categorised archive of content, from illustrations to poems, you would have to pay a charitable sum in order to use the pieces for certain outputs, there would be a fee toward the creator, and a percentage to charity.

wayfinding

way finding. The topology of a book of printed material form.

moving around a book.

A journey, a chosen pathway a story leads through the choices you take.

reference

http://designmuseum.org/design/phyllis-pearsall

Raymond Queneau - A story as you like it. 

social browsing

The book is social entertainment. The form of the book, replicating music. The form of
which the book is presented, is mimicking the model of the club. The reader, an audience, the DJ, the curator.

the display of information, behind glass is standard situation for a pub jukebox, the presentation of hundreds of albums hours of entertainment.

- To take the same display techniques and apply to books, being able to read a chapter of one, the synopsis of another, before buying, or maybe renting at a public house.

reference _ browsing histories.

The pub is better than the newspaper for public discussion. 

run for cover

A term, a quote, a life-long resonance of words that seem to be used to contextualise almost any living, made-up or distinguished character there ever was.

"Don't judge a book by it's cover". - A moral idiom bystander.

It's countless conquests in coversation, literature, and anything else that can possibly be discursive, is to be honest...

As shallow as a book cover imagine's itself to be. Don't judge me by my carefully considered dress, my fashion conscious jacket, my designed covering, hiding my content, my context, my rationale, my reason, behind this beautiful button-up blouse, which today I'm choosing best represents me, visualises my inner identity and portrays as a covering so you can understand me before you even have a chance to read any of the pages.

'Don't judge a book by it's cover I hear them say but it's too late I've got dressed, and I'm heading out to play.

Standing in line, amoungst the commercial que, the literature in this line is more than had it's due.

But why bother waiting all dressed to kill, I'm looking for the one who might stop and stare. I just have to catch their eye, and I'll be there, ready to lay myself completely bare.

So don't have a cover if you don't want to be judged, afterall a cover is a protection from the outside eyes looking in.

I'll sit here naked on this shelf all my life, just as long as you see me for me and not some other mans mind.

*don't judge a book by its cover. Project taking in quotes. Interviews and instances where it's popped up in life. I make a book and clearly design the insides, but the cover is non-existant the book is honest and naked.

What constitutes a cover? How many layers do you have to strip off before the book becomes a naked vessel of information with none of the introductory defences otherwise known as clothes.

-reference

http://www.goenglish.com/YouCantJudgeABookByItsCover.asp

draftsman

A new age draftsman. I have, now re-coined the term 'draftsman' I am very much a draftsman of the 22nd (and beyond) century.

You will probably be familiar with the term draftsman from a pre existing built, crafted, precise, and cared for world.

Unfortunately the new age draftsman (namely me, and my peers) has a far less productive use of the word, than the previous associate used to.

Less skill, more social.

Less craft, more cumbersome

Less build, more blog

Less work, more worry.

All in all, the context of the word draft in both pre- and post computerism has changed drastically. From a mans draft, his craft, his work, his skill, his career, his earner. To a mans drafts, his thoughts, compulsions, confusion, and idea's.

This post computerism world, see's men with box's (electronic boxes) full of drafts; unfinished works or pieces or merely just prepared but not utilised convulsions of text. an unfinished symphony of electronic mail that lie neatly and chronologically ordered.

Let's get back to physical boxes, with drafts; careful and accurate sketches

(this is the start of a feature article - A draft, the change of craft, the modern role of man).

Rewind

Going against the insatiable grain of daily life, can be a much harder task, when dealing with the steady flowing forward motion stream that we are all currently caught in.

Every third 25th and 50th (day to be decided) of the year I propose to take a step back and reassess everything life has given me, and is currently holding out for me. By taking this backward motion I am essentially reliving, reviving and often relinquishing idea's, notions, and thoughts that may have been lost due to my daily motion that I am in, Forward.>>

On taking a step back I can identify with what I have seen, why, where and when I saw it and what significance it might now hold this amount of time later. I like the idea of setting a timer, (for when it arrives I am to be static for at least two days), whilst I displace time and re-enter one for which I have already lived.

Whilst reliving some of these idea's experiments and often conversations with myself I hadn't possibly been aware of at the time, I started to understand more the relationship with myself, the relationships we all have with ourselves. Going back and reading what one has written on various dates through various months we understand our growth, our development and also our foundations. (Depending how far we go back completely depends on how much understanding with can gather).

- the proposal is that of every 25th and 50th (days to be decided) I will take time out to re-visit previous sketchbooks, logs, emails, text messages, diaries, sketchbooks, conversations etc. In some points I will relive them I will understand them better, or fully and I will understand myself that little bit more.

Books as a timeline, documenting the past for future gain.