A web-based anthology (so, a blog) that showcases the art of the mis-print. When the digital demons wriggle into files and play havoc, the results are often quite interesting. Two examples below (click to enlarge):
Construct lexan boxes of sufficient strength to withstand the detonation inside them of sufficient explosive force to blow apart a book. Coat the inside walls of the box with a clear adhesive. Place explosive charge and a book holy to some religious group inside the box. Make it go Boom. Repeat with additional boxes and other holy books. Let the final exhibit demonstrate that after violence is applied, all the holy words end up looking the same.
Great band name: Binomial Nomenclature
you know how you make mix tapes (ok, now CDs/mp3s) for your pals? why not record sounds like thunder, rain, a river, the wind and give it to them? or start a stock sound archive like a stock photo archive. have others contribute and allow everyone to use sounds for freeeeeee.
Does everyone share both the irrational fear that others will look in their medicine cabinets when visiting, and, the burning urge to peek inside the medicine cabinets of others when visiting them? How about a blog where users post cell phone camera photos of medicine cabinets anonymously. Visitors could both view others surreptitiously, and, perhaps, happen upon their own and wonder who snapped it.
A T-shirt that says: Searching for Signal
A new press, or an imprint of an existing press, formed to publish only first books written by people with last names that are already famous. The title list could very quickly include Hemingway, Whitman, Clancy, Atwood, Morrison, and Olds. It’s just be Steve Hemingway, Judy Whitman, Carol Clancy, Bob Atwood, Durwood Morrison, and Betty Olds.
Only serve food based on writers and writing. Recipes with ingredients as illustrated. Howl (Ginsberg) Salad – Ham(chopped and warm), Olives, Walnuts and lettuce. Blake bake – Beef, Leeks, Artichokes, Kidney beans and egg.
Decorate cakes with writing. Take poetry as payment instead of money
I have always wanted to publish a daily newspaper, full of the news I would want to read not the actual news. Lots of good stuff like: `Drunk sobers up`, `Poet appointed President of World Bank`, `Lawyer hands back fees after losing case` and so on…
To solve a problem particular to contemporary United States culture’s omnipresent “God Bless America” stickers and signs an oversticker that can be applied above/before, as needed, to provide a recontextualizing preface. Sticker says: America Sneezed. Thus:
America Sneezed.
God Bless America.
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