Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Genre Explored

I happened, quite by accident, upon this website the other day:



Which contains a collection of stories illustrated by Arthur Jones with drawings on post-it notes. This piqued my interest for what else is being done in the post-it note genre. A few google searches revealed:


The emphasis for both of the above seems to be on post-its as a way of limiting word count, and perhaps as a way of disrupting the feeling of preciousness that can make writing difficult.

And here's a visual post-its piece at UCSC that uses the sticky squares as pixels:


Here's a really odd office supply website (there is a version of lolcatz done with chairs that I kept finding in various connected pages) that has posted a nice collection of mosaics made out of post-its.


Oh, and wait, here is yet another cool Web Urbanist post that has quite a few nice examples of Mosaic type works:


I have yet to find any pieces displayed or referenced that seem very close to my post-it note books in concept or execution, which makes me happy in that way that I probably should try to rise above or something.

3 comments:

  1. Are you worried that you are unoriginal? Your originality shines in the details!

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  2. Thanks! It's just that there's nothing quite like wandering the internet to make one feel redundant sometimes...

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  3. I read this article "Titles Within a Tale" about "invisible libraries" in the NYT the other day, and it made me think of your project.

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