October 30, 2018
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. This is a continuation of the first post here.
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Tone:
an orientation toward the world
I stole the phrasing from the dreaded Aristotle, who describes emotion as an “orientation to the world.” What Aristotle wants to say is that, for ...
October 18, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: Jeff Alessandrelli on Dan Kaplan’s Instant Killer Wig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018)
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If Dan Kaplan’s great new book Instant Killer Wigwere an animal, it’d be a bat, an alluring mix of fur and reptile that refuses to solely exist within (good or bad) stereotypes. Some species of bats suck blood, sure, but other types pollinate flowers and disperse seeds the whole world over. Like ...
October 09, 2018
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students' (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. How to define "tone," for example, seemed especially difficult. Here are some alternate definitions, for now:
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Tone:
an orientation toward the world
Plot:
acceptance or rejection of consequences
Conflict:
what gives or takes away the illusion ...
October 04, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: Sarah Green on Jared Harel's Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018)
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If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow?
Pretty sure this book would grow children (“My four-year-old shoves / a toy block in my face / and screams Cheeese!”) but it might also grow patience, fall light, dead people’s card tricks, Frisbees, pot, voicemails. A deliciously cluttered evocative ...
