7/30/2005 07:03:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|Your attention, please! Recombinants existed long before the so-called "age of the recombinant." So today we are featuring a classic form of recombinant art: the QUILT.|W|P|112272166531829655|W|P|Today's Special: Quilts.|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/30/2005 06:38:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P| Two street scenes from two artists. One from 1920s Berlin, the other from 1970s New York. But they are not so different. The two artists were personal friends, after all. Neither was bearded. |W|P|112272091463268105|W|P|Romare Bearden + George Grosz = razor go beard emerge nose (remainder r, g)|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/26/2005 01:27:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|Speaking of hypertext, I have to agree with Mr. Romance that our reason for employing hypertext and other varieties of "netspeak" is, as he put it, "to use these technologies to draw out, re-arrange, and celebrate the art that lies dormant, tiny and flat, between words, letters, numbers, notes, and the circuit boards in your computer." But it should also be noted that hypertext is more than just the cute slang and abreviation of netspeak. Hypertext is the overcoming of text, a move beyond text, and when done with art it can greatly expand the poetic potential of language. With hypertext, we can explode text and force it to better reflect the richness and flexibility of language. We can do this in a number of ways: (a) by subverting the linear order of reading, in favor of circular paths of reading, or complicated networks of texts linked to one another (b) by grafting other media onto the text (images, videos, audio, etc.), (c) by connecting the texts we write with other texts in a more direct way than using footnotes or other old fashioned forms of reference. Maybe in other ways, too. Hypertext is an art of its own, and the links below (selected quickly and at random) testify to the existence of a whole community of hypertext artists. http://www.krokodile.co.uk/hyper1.html http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/original.html http://www.hypertxt.com/sh/hyper98/ http://www.eastgate.com/ http://www.hypertextkitchen.com/Press.html http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~koskimaa/thesis/chapter9.htm |W|P|112240010683115861|W|P|hyper on text|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/22/2005 12:26:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|Readers of Bearded Miracles may have noticed that the editors of this fine publication are a bit obsessed with recombination. Especially, they enjoy the recombination of sounds in cutting edge electronic music, and the recombination of words to make different meanings, as for example in the legendary puns of Marcel Duchamp, professional designer of urinals. Today these concerns lead us back to the term "IDM," which fans of electronic music may recognize as one of the zillions of annoying sub-genre terms for a certain type of electronic sounds. Typically, IDM stands for "independant dance music," or "intelligent dance music," and refers to artists such as those at Warp records. But the letters IDM could very well stand for all sorts of other things instead. And as we were thinking about today's insignificant digital musings, we pulled out our international dada mill (invented by Hannah Hoch so long ago), and started turning the crank to see what different IDM's might come out. Below are just some of the results:

Internationale Deutsche Motorradmeisterschaft

Inspirational daily messages

I damage marmots

Internet dandruff machine

Intricate dream messages

Inside David’s moustache

Inside David’s mom

Instrumental doom music

Intelligent deaf mute

Introverted deaf mute

Igloos don't melt

I detest mormons

Interstellar dinosaur movie

Ivan doesn’t mind

Intel deletes music

International dandruff management

Innuerable dead marines

I destroy music

Inadvertently dented Mercedez

Interesting dead man

I devour mangos insufficiently dowried marriages Incan desire machine ...and so on. After we were done with this exercise, we were once again struck by the flimsiness of language, the joy of punning, and the silliness of ravers who think that they need to cultivate ever more specialized labels for the miniscule subcultures that they hang out in.|W|P|112205112167377866|W|P|I distribute messages|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/22/2005 01:13:00 PM|W|P|Anonymous Anonymous|W|P|inexplicably dumped manure
i dig mozzarella
inexpensive designer mothballs7/23/2005 03:16:00 PM|W|P|Anonymous Anonymous|W|P|for the dirty:

insatiably damp mound7/15/2005 12:35:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|

ORDER: Squamata FAMILY: Agamidae GENUS: Pogona SPECIES: vitticeps

|W|P|112144537643083103|W|P|the Bearded Dragon...info|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/15/2005 12:15:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|Imagine a transparent journal, full of camels and snakes. Even without opening it, you can already see the contents: a hot air balloon, an umbrella stand, a steam ship, a small scale, a mollusk. Then, several pages ahead, you can already see a photographer, coyly draped in a black cloth, turning his black box toward a public urinal, waiting for the gents to exit! "A heart with a beard," it's called, a brief message reaching us from 1922, inviting us to an exposition that may have never taken place. A bearded miracle for sure!|W|P|112144471799117408|W|P|a Heart with a Beard|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com7/14/2005 10:47:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|Melted plastic sears my flesh.|W|P|112135248956084697|W|P|Globules|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com