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November 12, 2008 Art, Photography No comments

Someone once said. 

It applies to me for sure, at least in regards to visual artforms. It doesn’t apply to my brother though, not when it’s photographic art anyway. His site has undergone a reimagination at stevenpocock.com and today sees the closing of his first exhibition in alliance with four other photographers from the UCA (University of the Creative Arts).

Said exhibition’s name was ‘Entropia’ and more can be seen about the work shown there at http://entropia-exhibition.co.cc/. It’s very imporessive, but I don’t pretend to understand all the theory behind it. Maybe you will though, so enjoy :)

 

Best,

Kevin

 

 

p.s: See, told you I was here.

Shot Down

September 30, 2008 Art, Author, Books, Writing One comment

The most devastating realisation to a writer in consideration of his work – or at least to this one – is that a project might never be completed. I realised this fact today when, on a whim, I clicked the link on this site that says ‘Novel Twists’.

For those that do not know, Novel Twists was a collaborative writing project where the opportunity to write the next page of the story was auctioned on eBay, with the proceeds of each auction going to MacMillan, the cancer care and support charity. I was determined enough to write one of the pages that I won one of the auctions and did type page 19 for the project leader (and originator) Phil McArthur. 

However, if you click the link to the project you will see the following message:

 

Collaborative internet novel writing does not work.

People never stick to the established facts of the story.

People are not interested in writing the story once it has been established.

It might be possible if you had 50 talented authors in one room working together on a collaborative novel.

But open it up to the ‘public’, and it is doomed.

This is fact, learned by experience.

 

How depressing is that? ‘A little’, you might say. Well no, it’s very sad, and personally it’s disasterous. Personally I wanted to be part of a project which was not only finished but was something to be proud of. Personally, I wanted to be one of many writers who gave something to a collaborative project which benefited a worthy charity, and might actually end up in print to the enjoyment of the public.  And personally I wanted to see how the development of ideas would unravel after my page, as I’m sure those before me did after theirs’.

That the project is now effectivly over but incomplete, pains me. It might never see the light of day because a few members of the public couldn’t stick to (and develop) a previously well-considered plot. I’m not sure what to do, but I know I don’t want that to be it.

I think I’ve got Phil’s email, perhaps I should get in contact and ask him what he’s done (and I dread to think he has deleted it… no, surely he hasn’t).

I’ll report back when I find out, but in the meantime, you can read what exists (existed?) of the story here using the power of Archive.org.

 

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