I have been trying to get the publication to a place where I can leave it alone for a little while and get on with the essay –
- I have questions about the puppets now – I still want to have them here but they’re not working for me at the moment. I will need to think about it a bit more.
- I thought yesterday, I have dabbled with the things the AI said but need to commit to them a bit more and see where that takes me, so the next version has a lot more of its statements included. Now I am not sure about the earlier writing. I will see how things feel in a few weeks.
- There is a photograph of a shopping bag with a woman’s face scrunched up which feels a bit hackneyed – took it, didn’t use it, thought I’d try it out but don’t think this one is working for me. (But it is better than whatever was there before)
- Have changed the colour pallet from the warm, brown tones to grey. It was all a bit dated before, presumably the influence of the Situationist mags I’d been inspired by.
- I have realised I have been including the gatefold for demonstration only in the page count which means I have one more spread to fill – that is good as I wanted another double spread full bleed. (But god knows what yet… )
- Have spoken to the printer and now just waiting for some rough idea of cost (probably too high and will make me gulp!)
BOWA5 (sizeA4) (resequenced2reduced) dummy 2EP (without-half pages as was using to print on laser printer and did that in a separate file. Also thanks to Emma and Catherine who deleted the final page after I arrived in the office and found the page had not been deleted as I thought so the sequencing by the printer was out and had no way of deleting it myself there.)
Simplified the cover and it is now only some fragments of text on grey. Hoping this can be the sort of paper that one might find on the cover of an exercise book rather than printed grey. I’d love to have different textures of paper throughout like the Situationist book but it will be very, very expensive to have that done by a commercial printer, so I’d need to get someone to help me handmake it if I really wanted it, and that is also potentially very expensive.
BOWA5 (sizeA4) (resequenced3) small
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Woke up this morning wanting to pay some attention to my essay and ended up editing the publication again all morning until my computer started behaving very weirdly indeed. Thinking it might have been a sign to stop – am in danger of moving things about too much and destroying it.
However, there are two things I really do need to do sooner rather than later – and that is to transform some of the writing into reported narrative like passage on the inside cover. That way there are two styles of text on (other than the middle pages) – the fragments of conversation between the app and Cassandra along with the descriptive passages.
Have included something from ‘origin of the commonplace’ made in DI&C. Martins does this repeat of images across series – a nod to entanglement and referenced in one of the essays in his death book, I think. (and my own – if not yet, it will be). After making a couple more changes to the above, I had to stop when things started going awry with my computer.
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