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Because this is simpler than trying to upload photos twice and/or coding all of them into this post: here, have a link to the facebook album of pictures I just put up of my Dhalgren book art. Still severely in progress--flipping through to find the things I've done already, there were plenty of blank pages. But I wanted to get some sort of a record up of what I've done so far.

Still mostly using the markers, though I've added bits of an old photo (the Archives got it and didn't want it, so I got to take it, but it was falling apart a bit already) and started cutting pieces out of some pages, coloring some of them, sticking them back in other places... it's fun to see how many different things I can do with my limited media, but it'd be awesome if I could get some paints/pastels/whatever, like I was saying before.

(And I think putting bits of the photo in might work better if I had glue, not just masking tape...)

It's sort of ridiculously fun, especially the cutting-bits-out. I think I will have to do this again, maybe with a shorter book so I can do more contained things--Dhalgren is a sprawling book art project as much as it's a sprawling novel, which is awesome in that I can experiment, but it's hard to have anything cohesive going on.
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Some things I like:
- Benjamin Parzybok's story at Strange Horizons this week, Birds;
- a link I found wandering through his blog after reading it: Authors, Poets Write the News, which rather made me feel that I would like to live in that universe, and then I realized that that is this universe, so I don't even have to move;
- my roommate-for-next-year and I got the room we wanted (which has a bay window, which we will sit in and drink tea and, probably, talk about Science, and I will write stories);
- tomorrow is when a friend from high school is coming to be a prospective student and sleep in my room, and I shall show her all around and introduce her to people;
- book-art-ing Dhalgren, although it may take me years.

More on that last: so far I've just been using markers, and when I have a spare moment or wander into my room I draw or scribble something on a page or two.

One of these days I will find watercolors or pastels or crayons or something and do some more serious work on it. For now, though, each page just takes me a few seconds, and I feel like I have done something, if not Done Something, and slowly of course the pages will add up.

Though there are eight hundred of them, so like I said, it might take a while.

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