In my spare time, I am an architect who designs planets.
Music
Jazz, Punk, Noise, Hip Hop, and Metal
Movies
Pink Flamingos, Brazil, Eraserhead, Fightclub, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Latcho Drom, and Star Wars
Books
Maximiliana, The Voynich Manuscript, Ecrit en Prose, N, Writing, Noology, Sibille Asemantiche, The Codex Seraphinianus, A Book From The Sky, Flight Into Egypt, Stroke by Stroke, Morpheme Pages, and Flatland (Derek Beaulieu's version).
Heroes
Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mirtha Dermisache, Brion Gysin, Isidore Isou, and Arthur Cravan
About me: I am into asemic writing, that is, I write without words. I was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Now, I currently create in Minneapolis.
Of my creations , I am best known as the author of an asemic novella called The Giant's Fence. It is an 80 page calligraphic work that I began in 2000 and finally got published in 2006.
I also have a short ebook available called Action Figures. It is available from Avance Publishing and is free to download.
http://avance.randomflux.info/
Who I'd like to meet: The Giant's Fence is a unique book. Instead of being filled with words, it gives you 80 pages of trans-symbolic script. Each page has several lines of linked, dancing symbols. They live, move, mutate, and die. The whole book could be interpreted both as the song of how we humans invented symbolic communication, and the telling of its slow disintegration. There are at least 2 ways to read The Giant's Fence. You can begin at page one, scan the first line, scan the second line, and so on, as you would read a regular book. You can also flip to a random page, and jump to a line which catches your eye. Some pages distort the rows of horizontal lines of symbols into curves, so you can't exercise your usual reading habits. The Giant's Fence stimulates new ways of reading and new ways of thinking. As the introduction says, "any meaning" the reader constructs "is a correct translation". The books title is a translation of Finnish "Jatulintarha", a name given to many of the stone labyrinths found in Finland. The only percursors to The Giant's Fence are the hypergraphic novels of the lettristes (such as Alain Satie's Ecrit en Prose) and some of the more complex works of asemic poetry. If you want to step outside of language, and bathe in unmuddied waters, this book is for you. Tim Gaze February 2006
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song up. This one is called “Hold On' and is about 'holding on to
your humanity' -in a world where things does not always look so
good'. It is kind of rhythmical tune with some rock riffs trying to
be heard. Looking forward to your comments.
