Lot of 49 projects and artworks

[Bekah]

I use a  Smartboard at school -  I can type using a keyboard which  
has been "projected"  onto the wall-sized computer  "monitor."   I  
literally type on the screen.  The kids play computer games there.    
I write with a stylus there and print it off.   We surf the net on  
the wall.  I use it like a programed whiteboard - from my laptop to  
the screen only the screen is a giant touchpad/monitor.   Meanwhile,   
most of my kids,  the children of farm laborers,  don't have  
computers in their homes.   "Shall I project a world?"

Bekah



On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:09 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I watched a couple of high school kids express amazement at an old  
> typewriter.  "Wow, you type and it goes right on the paper?  Awesome!"
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Rafferty <paul.rafferty at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> Despite the internet becoming the main source of communication in  
>> my late
>> teens, I was totally seduced by the romance of WASTE. The internet  
>> is a far
>> easier method but WASTE represents to me the struggle of  
>> discovering of
>> anything left of the mainstream whilst living in a really small  
>> town in the
>> UK (tape trades, mail-order zines etc). I can imagine the same  
>> being true of
>> those who grew up with the internet too. The unfamiliar  
>> physicality of WASTE
>> must be as seductive, if not maybe more?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:38 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are so many alternate systems now that weren't in place  
>>> when the book
>>> was written.  When I read it (in the late '70s),WASTE seemed like  
>>> a cool,
>>> counter-cultural, populist, anarchistic movement that I wished I  
>>> could be
>>> part of.  WOuld it seem that way to a reader who grew up in the  
>>> age of
>>> e-mail and youtube?
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> Sent: Nov 20, 2008 9:58 AM
>>>> To: Paul Rafferty <paul.rafferty at gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Lot of 49 projects and artworks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Paul Rafferty wrote:
>>>>> Is anyone familiar with any contemporary alternative mail systems
>>>>> or artworks that explore similar ideas to those discussed in  
>>>>> Crying
>>>>> of Lot 49? I know WASTE has been borrowed and referenced  
>>>>> throughout
>>>>> a range of media but does anyone have any examples of such a thing
>>>>> actually existing?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if I'm using this correctly, so if I'm not, please  
>>>>> let
>>>>> me know how to use it properly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does the Semaphore Project at San Jose count?   There's a lot of
>>>> stuff out there about it but this piece has a bit more.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bookride.com/2007/08/thomas-pynchon-crying-of-
>>>> lot-49-1966.html
>>>>
>>>> Bekah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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