Monday, October 10, 2005

Finally some headway

I've been treading water horribly on my project, which is to make a broadside for my letterpress class. I think, though, that I'm starting to make a little progress. I'm pretty sure I'm going with the middle Coupland quote there (didn't find any more in Microserfs, on which more later):

I get this little feeling that we can all of us speed up the dream, dream in color, dream in volume, and dream together down south. We can, and will, fabricate the waking dream.


Which is certainly the most poetic thing anyone has said about software. The wrinkle here is that I need to put in some kind of linocut. My current thoughts are to find perhaps some kind of Socialist Realist hammering-man type of thing for the "fabricate" concept, or perhaps Athena. I like the Athena concept more and more as I think about it. Easier to find material, for sure--apparently Socialist Realism isn't considered to rate the same representation in the library as, say, Constructivism or any other ism you might name. Which is about right in my opinion, except it would be convenient right now.

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