Entry 286 — Successful Textual Design « POETICKS

Entry 286 — Successful Textual Design

The image below is the first textual design in my series that I really like.  It’s a detail from the sixth frame of the work.  What makes it succeed, in my opinion, is that I found a nice focal point for part of it, which I cropped to.

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I had a lot of trouble getting what I had on my laptop screen, my laptop being where I work with Paint Shop, to look the same on the screen of the computer I used for this blog.  Who knows how it looks on others’ screens, but it’s close to right on the one I’m looking at now.

I have no idea what to make of it.  I just like it visually.  I’m now wondering what the product would be if I found another image I liked of the same style and multiplied it by that.  I do believe I’ll use it in a mathemaku.

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Entry 288 — Two More Textual Designs « POETICKS

Entry 288 — Two More Textual Designs

The upper image below is most of the eighth frame of my series of textual designs, reduced to less than half-size.  I thought it passable, certainly better than most of the other frames to this point, and much better than the two after it, which don’t even have a detail worth extracting.  The other piece is a detail from the upper one.  I don’t know which version I prefer.  Probably the detail, slightly.

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Entry 289 — A Labeled Textual Design « POETICKS

Entry 289 — A Labeled Textual Design

It’s the 11th frame of my series (reduced by a fourth).  I consider it mildly amusing.

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Entry 287 — More Textual Designs « POETICKS

Entry 287 — More Textual Designs

The following are all details from the seventh frame of my series of textual designs.

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Entry 291 — Frame 14 « POETICKS

Entry 291 — Frame 14

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Entry 292 — One Last Textual Design, For Now « POETICKS

Entry 292 — One Last Textual Design, For Now

This is the last frame from my experiment in textual designage that is of any interest, at all.

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4 Responses to “Entry 292 — One Last Textual Design, For Now”

  1. Bob Grumman says:

    Hey, Bob, for some reason I really like this one!

    Your friend, Bob Grumman

  2. Márton Koppány says:

    I like the work of the first Bob and share the opinion of the second one!
    All best,
    your friend
    (and the humble translator of Poet, our mutual friend),
    Marton

  3. Bob Grumman says:

    I’m sorry, Marton, but I cannot concur. The evidence of a recent detailed examination I carried out indicates beyond serious doubt that both Bobs are complete idiots.

    Professor G.

  4. nico says:

    nicely done & different than befores

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Entry 1009 — One More from Do Not Write « POETICKS

Entry 1009 — One More from Do Not Write

This one is by Carlyle Baker:

 

I find this image fascinating.  It’s not a poem, for me, but–for one thing–a visualization of a mind’s attempt to find an answer to some unknown but worthy question.  One of the mind’s tactics is a doubling back over what it is diagramming, stolidly diagramming.  It also employs a white abstract map it briefly scribbles notes toward some sort of understanding that fails to emerge–but it does pin down the location of the unknown involved (the X).    I also read in it (less compellingly) the narrative I read in almost all asemic works, the struggle of language to emerge, in this case from thick-lined networks forming layers away from what the language is struggling to speak of, with an abstract outline of what it apparently must include above it.  Or the map of a big city, or a close up of a side of such a city . . .

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Textual Designage « POETICKS

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Entry 289 — A Labeled Textual Design

Friday, November 19th, 2010

It’s the 11th frame of my series (reduced by a fourth).  I consider it mildly amusing.

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Entry 288 — Two More Textual Designs

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

The upper image below is most of the eighth frame of my series of textual designs, reduced to less than half-size.  I thought it passable, certainly better than most of the other frames to this point, and much better than the two after it, which don’t even have a detail worth extracting.  The other piece is a detail from the upper one.  I don’t know which version I prefer.  Probably the detail, slightly.

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Entry 287 — More Textual Designs

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

The following are all details from the seventh frame of my series of textual designs.

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Entry 286 — Successful Textual Design

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

The image below is the first textual design in my series that I really like.  It’s a detail from the sixth frame of the work.  What makes it succeed, in my opinion, is that I found a nice focal point for part of it, which I cropped to.

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I had a lot of trouble getting what I had on my laptop screen, my laptop being where I work with Paint Shop, to look the same on the screen of the computer I used for this blog.  Who knows how it looks on others’ screens, but it’s close to right on the one I’m looking at now.

I have no idea what to make of it.  I just like it visually.  I’m now wondering what the product would be if I found another image I liked of the same style and multiplied it by that.  I do believe I’ll use it in a mathemaku.

Entry 285 — Two More Textual Designs

Monday, November 15th, 2010

The following thumbnails link to two more frames of the sequence of textual designs I made and didn’t like.  I keep thinking I may be able to use details of them in better works, preferably visual poems of some sort.

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Hmmm, I like the thumbnail of the top one much better than the full image.

Entry 281 — A Thought & a Textual Design

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Another Saying of Bob, which I just said (somewhat differently)  to Karl Kempton about his latest (most excellent) chapbook, This Is Visual Poetry:

The final message of all of the best poems: “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world,” which I love to quote because I believe firmly in it (as true in the final analysis although almost never true at any particular moment)–even though I don’t believe in Browning’s God or his heaven.  To me, it’s a perfect example of how one person can use language and even ideas  to express something another person believes entirely in but would package much differently.

And another, thumbnailed, from the sequence of textual designs:

This was originally number two in my sequence.   I flat out don’t like it.  Later frames in the sequence I recall as being not bad.

My headache persist, by the way.  Otherwise, I’m feeling chipper.

Entry 279 — “Deuteronomy”

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

When I made up my mind to submit to Dan Waber’s series This Is Visual Poetry, my first impulse was to submit 17 textual designs, my intent being to show what is not visual poetry.  I quickly made the designs but thought them too poor to publish, even as a kind of satire.  They did have possibilities, though.  Below is a thumbnail to the first of them, plus an addition, the diagram to the right.

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As far as I’m concerned, this is a textual design.  It has words but their meanings are irrelevant (as far as I can see).  The image to the left is just crumpled paper I scanned.  Hey, I like it.  I just don’t see it as a visual poem (or, really, as good for a textual design as I think my best visual poems are good for visual poems).

I’m calling it, “Deuteronomy.”

Entry 161 — A Huthian Fidgetglyph

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

In one of his recent mailings to me, Geof Huth sent a folded card with the interior of ther First reformed Church of Schenectady, New York, shown on its 300th birthday in 1980.  I’m showing it here because it sets up the fidgetglyph Geof had drawn across the inside of the card and given the title “The Fervent F.”  I’m showing that because it seems to me how good a calligrapher Geof is at his best.  The original is much better than the image shown here, by the way.

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Entry 1551 — 2 by Nico Vassilakis

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The following are from the same issue of Kalligram that the Poem poems I’ve been featuring here are from:

 

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I call these textual visimages–visual art whose subject is the visual appearance of language.  These are much more than simple designs, but I can’t quite put what they do into words yet.  Something about alteration. Or are they about building simple things that will prove to have vast consequences?  Of course, they are also “just” variations, highly elegant variations, on letters.

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Entry 1091 — Waves « POETICKS

Entry 1091 — Waves

I had all kinds of trouble getting the following images into this post, and I’m exhausted, so won’t say much about them until tomorrow.  I will say that I consider the top one an example of what has been wrong with the arts world for the past 40 or more years.

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