wellI’m hoping they’d be pre-bound, all nice and done, just needing packaging and distribution.
I'm not worried about cost and postage
or binding
(I can get them done like the Fluxlist Happy New Ears...)
I’m okay with that, I have no plans to move. Still digging in, this would add a necessary homespun flavor of paper and print to my studio. Would you like to share it in your caravan?
but would you like to do this one, Kathy?
And perhaps Melissa could help people with binding. And Nancy with flow and subject. And everyone else who’s not busy with their 250 folded (or 500 single) pages can do stuff too. Don could print where people can’t do their own (and I’ll try not to email stray fluxedout stuff, probably the less I say the better, except that I’m happy to do what needs to be done). And I will accept a postage fee, otherwise... .(I’ll have a nice new library)
Long answer: perhaps the project should be in two parts, one for those able and willing to make and bind their own, and then the probably more directly verbal who’d just look at it as paper and text and could probably use assembly help. But then it would be A and B again. Orrrr, you could do the east side, Roger, I’ll do the west.
There’s also C, an online project, the “Gutenbergian mix” developed in a wiki environment. Maybe start with something like the Fluxus Manifesto, (it’s not sacred is it?), and see what can happen revising and amending it (‘editing’ and ‘attaching’). Done as a prelude to B, as Kamen described it.
This could Divide into Form w/Implicit Process and Content w/ Apparent Process. Unless someone can think of a way to get all these things working together. Maybe wiki for unified ideas, then the verbally gifted can get someone else to do their binding and the rest can do it themselves and we can go from there. I just thought it would be nice to share 50 books and get 50 surprises.
What’s next?
Set up wiki with original set of ideas, including hot air balloon, libraries and modern saints and sinnersHow did our friends, the MoMa Russians, do it? It could be an homage to them. (or spoof... as you will)
watch wiki grow.
let wiki figure it out and come up with a single grand unifying topic, or 50.
everyone does their fifty books, somehow
They’re sent to one or more central places and redistributed, that’s all.
It sounds like fun, just skip the details.
I will leave cyberspace for a while now, read some solid book. ciao, Kathy
