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Oulipo Theme Release
on Jan 7, 2009 in design Oulipo wordpress In April of 2008 I relaunched Protocol 7 with Oulipo, my personal variation on the black and white, grid-based design style. Over the months it was featured in a several galleries and I received a number of emails from people interested in using the...
Omni Daily News
on Mar 30, 2009 in Book Awards Literature Nikolai Gogol Once a Runner Oulipo Tournament of Books The winner, and still champeen: In the finals, the Tournament of Books turns into a democracy (or maybe an oligarchy) rather than a dictatorship, with all the judges weighing in. Nearly everyone liked both finalists--as more than one pointed out,...
N+7 Via the Net
on Apr 1, 2009 in awesome poetry internet gadgets that waste my time n+7 machine oulipo Link: N+7 Machine I wrote: bums are good bums when they shut their tongues N+7′d: buns are good buns when they sickbed their toots (The “N+7″ method: Replace every noun in a text with the noun seven entries after it in a dictionary.
Raymond Queneau: The Flight Of Icarus
on Jun 15, 2009 in Queneau, Raymond OneWorld Classics Oulipo humour runaways France Last year I enjoyed Raymond Queneau’s Exercises In Style, arguably his most famous book, although as narrative goes it was rather slight, being the same story told ninety-nine times in all manner of styles. The title, really, is a bit of a give...