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Comment by Ficus strangulensis on September 13, 2020 at 4:39pm

So, fellow followers of the path of scissoring... I've piled myself out of room for doing trad art so I've been wondering if there's a  good way to cut lines from text and reassemble them starting with a digital image rather than paper. [pls pardon me if this offends y'r mailart sensibilities!]

So, I found this prescriptive blather at the internet archive and screenshot a 2-p spread from it [see above] and opened it in corel photopaint where I cd select rows and, surprisingly, I cd drag a row to an open document in corelDRAW. Next, will be the little assembly but what I REALLY WANT TO ASK is if anyone has a better method. This is S-L-O-W.

Comment by carl baker on May 9, 2020 at 6:02pm

multi media cut up............

https://experimentsinopera.com/portfolio-item/the-travel-agency-is-...

Comment by carl baker on May 2, 2020 at 6:09pm

a writing machine that shifts one half one text and half the other through a page frame on a conveyor --- the proportion of half one text half another is important corresponding as it does to the two halves of the human organism(shakespear, burroughs etc) permutating through page frames in constantly changing juxtaposition the machine spits out books,plays and poems, the spectators are invited to feed into the machine any pages of their own text in fifty-fifty juxtaposition with any author, any pages of their choice and get provided with results in a few minutes.    wsb(ticket)

Comment by HilgART on April 24, 2020 at 5:31pm

Cool cut-up, Jennifer--and what a great collection of works to be a part of!! Congratulations!

Comment by carl baker on February 16, 2020 at 2:29am

CUT UP, the burroughs postcard.

Comment by John M. Bennett on January 28, 2020 at 3:41pm

I've just learned that there's a very good chance the visual will be in color, but time will tell for sure

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on January 28, 2020 at 3:25pm

John, There's a place to leave the author questions/comments at the link DVS posted.

Comment by John M. Bennett on January 28, 2020 at 1:40pm

I wonder if this new ed. of The Third Mind, etc. would include color plates of all the visual material that didn't make it into the original edition? 

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on January 28, 2020 at 12:12pm

Hey, 'DV' thanks for the heads up! I left them a comment asking if one might subscribe to future comments on the book and letting them know I will wish to purchase a copy. YOB-f

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 28, 2020 at 3:04am

Someone sent me this link to a new book that is being published of the writings of Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs on the cut-up technique.

You probably won't find a better understanding of cut-up than going directly to Gysin & Burroughs. Included is an explanation of the difference between cut-up & DaDa methods.

Apparently this new volume includes a new printing of the book The Third Mind (1978) by Gysin & Burroughs, which originally fared very poorly and copies are hard to find. Of course it is now a classic. (Gysin only rarely visited the USA & was not well know in the states until after Burroughs' (final) return.) Anyway, looks like a good book.

http://marcusboon.com/the-book-of-methods-selected-writings-on-the-...

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