John Bennett and Matthew Stolte - When Partial Words Collide - and adding Jim SantAmour!

[cheryl penn]

John sends me - and others - the most wonderful things :-).  I have NO idea why, but they just YELL at me to add to them - I'm sure some of you feel that?  John is also a well known ZALOPIST.  ZALOPISTS inhabit ZALOP City in the World of Emphatics.

ZALOPISTS make maps to secret doors leading to ZALOP City.  Its very difficult to find you  see.  This is NOT a FAKE map - this is an AUTHENTIC JMB map.  It is NOT a shopping list.

There are various ways to say hello. Matthew knows quite a few. 

Matthews vispo  is dense, textured - almost as though the seeping ink matches the bleeding words - and visually very rich.  An ideal melding of image and language. It is  textured and rich in color, an ideal melding where language and image are combined.

Work by  John Bennett, Matthew Stotle and C.Mehrl Bennett

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Work by Jim Leftwich and John Bennett

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O K - what can I say, I'm chuffed :-) XX

From Jim SantAmour - Collage Vispo - Jim says the photograph is from a wall at a construction site in New York City - THANKS Jim - this was a surprise - a wonderful one at that :-) X

[Marie Wintzer]

If you are making a list about Flickr-Vispo, can you add my personal fav Les Brumes? Someone producing work as breathtakingly beautiful as this one (for example) has to be a Vispo master:

[De Villo Sloan]

"When Worlds Collide" is classic sci-fi book-movie.

 

I agree with the Minx of Minsk that this "Legends of Vispo" is a shining example of how collaborations can work.

 

I saw variations of these on Jim Leftwich's fickr photostream. There are personal favs of mine at flickr I think are practically essential to follow. Their photostreams (as well the work they select by other people) is pretty vital:

(1) Jim Leftwich (2) Thierry Tillier (2) Litsa Spathi (4) Mudhead  (5) Little Shiva and last but not least (6) Cherry Blossom. There are certainly others, but this covers a lot of vispo-related stuff. And, like I said, it's the first place I saw these collabs.

[cheryl penn]

I do :-)))!!! BUT! Of course they'e completely 'telligible' to me :-) X

[De Villo Sloan]

I noticed Musicmaster is there too? Is that Jeff Crouch? JMB posted a comment once saying either Musicmaster or Blaster Al Ackerman do spoken word asemic performances - I think the idea being you sort of mumble barely intelligible-unintelligble things so you're speaking asemics. That seems clever. Leave it the "Legends of Vispo." I still think this is a great blog. Do you ever plan on reading your asemics aloud?

[cheryl penn]

Note from John about the map:

"hah!  that map is actually a collab with Jeff Crouch - he sent the map, i scrawled on it, and then sent it to you - you can add any cartographic details you wish, and then send it on to someone else who's lost -
onword - john"

I may - but I'm sending a copy, a fake if you like :-) X

[De Villo Sloan]

[De Villo Sloan]

I think it's a re-but-tal

[Marie Wintzer]

LEAF ME BE ;-))

[cheryl penn]

Don't know how but But But But But came up twice - no thats not quite true - total computer ineptitude on my side :-)) X

[Marie Wintzer]

Yes, those, those!! Aren't they fab? I just love them. Thank you!!