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I've just got around to getting my new art website/blog thing going so if any of you feel like having a little look at some of my recent(ish) artwork find it at...

http://picturesfromsamsara.blogspot.com/

If you scroll down through the first few pictures a bit you will see some work I put on a few days ago which was partly inspired by Burrough's and Gysin's Third Mind pictures (which coincidently- or perhaps even synchronistically have just been reproduced and written about by Jed and co. here at Reality Studio) and also by Burroughs' scrap books, amoungst other things.

You may also like to have a look at my written blog: http://notesfromsamsara.blogspot.com/. I am quite proud of my last written post there and would also like to draw the attention of any forum members who are at all interested to this particular page of it: http://notesfromsamsara.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html.
Just scroll down to the third article, entitled 'watercolour adventures', as the artwork here presented is a little related to Burroughsian approaches to creativity as well.

Honest comments/ feedback of any kind on any of this stuff of mine from fellow forum members would be most welcome and would also be much appreciated.

Good stuff .. Especially the collage page twinned with the portrait of a fellow traveller.

Your comments about getting stuff out to the world is unfortunately very likely. The sites Flickr and DeviantArt are good ..

What I really find interesting about The Third Mind ( one of my favourite wsb books) is that nowadays it could be a website and wsb and gysin would probably not be famous.

Oddly enough a lot of Bob Dylan's lyrics (between folk and the Woodstock accident ) were made by filling a floor with assorted pictures and bits of text and then quickly creating a stream of consciousness lyric..

Also there was an experiment a few years ago where The Waste Land by T S Eliot became a private eye comic strip.. It'a a shame comic books were more mainstream in those days. Some of wsb's stuff could be treated by different artists. Ghosts of Chance would be interesting and could also be a good website with links to lemurs and pirate sites..

And back in the 70s a British artist called Tom Phillips took a Victorian novel, defaced it artistically but randomly circling words with word balloons - an odd book to read - published originally in hardback for about £10 I think but now every page is scanned into the internet and it can all be downloaded for free and called The Humument or Human Document. I think writers have it easier than artists in a way..

Burroughs used the principle of The Long Tail - giving stuff away or very cheaply in order to make profits from niche wglobal audiences - before it was even named.

i make visual arts, diy books ( i am currently working on a few ), sound art, animations, videos...

you can check some of my stuff in here:

http://www.coffinride.com
(portfolio is not yet finished)

I'm a fine art student...so that means I have access to all kinds of equipment which allows me to play with whatever medium suits the project sans loads of money to buy expensive equipment. Years ago I went to film school...but its very expensive unless you are a student and by and large its mostly a dead medium in regards to actually using film...no more moviescope and razor blade editing.

I written quite a few things from angry spoken word, to short stories, scripts but mostly I like to paint using non-traditional items and work with organic and inorganic items for textures. I have used Gysin's roller idea with a lot of success...instant art

mostly I'll work with anything I can get my grubby mitts on

for anyone interested, the vinyl only crime album, exalted masters is now available for download from Itunes US, Itunes Europe and Itunes Japan, Napster, and Amazon.

ports of hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_iJKr-17k

Eleven years, just passed, so again I go by the house, and smile, cause his words live, vibrant, irreverent, funny, spicy, dead on.

I remember warmth, impatience, growls, recitations, cloud stories, dog stories, crossing new york as a mule, the fast pull of a gun story, holding hands, tears, swirling changing jokes, grumps, dark depression, glee, sharp fast unexpected remarks.

I've written the introduction to a new edition of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs. Start here for background

http://supervert.com/

and proceed from there to the online version of the text.

very nice RS. congrats.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/v/velvet+und ... 43887.html

hm, a writer of "experimental crap" that may read somewhat burroughsian (in style if not content). I'm looking for someone to do a split zine or book with. Someone who doesn't totally suck...
I wonder some times what The Right Thing To Do is.
I daydream about grad school but also like to run around and scrape my knees just a bit too much. I haven't an undergrad degree, though I'm old enough by a few years to have had... this pushes me further into the kneel, and farther from academia. but i still dream.

(this is all a way of saying "hello" to you all, as I'm new here. hello!)

Nice to meet you, would you mind elaborating on the proposed Zine?

Is it your own "work" or would you and your partner be taking "submissions"? Fiction? Poetry? Essays? Cut-Ups? Visual? Is there a theme? are you looking to put it in print or are you going for something online? Perhaps a pdf?

I wrote and directed the feature film Marrakech. You can check it out at http://www.BandanaEntertainment.com There are location shoot pix as well as info about the movie. You can connect to the DVD link and see a clip. Also, if you’re interested there is a director’s statement on page 4 of the Press Package (which is in red).

I have 12 screenplays I am trying to sell. Three of them take place in Mexico and one of them I might be able to do since its budget isn’t too large. However, raising money for a film is not a pleasant or easy task and I don’t particularly have the gene for it, although I did raise the money for Marrakech.

I have seven collections of poetry in the great out there. A Selected is supposed to be forthcoming, but the publisher is two years behind. I’m not optimistic. I have a novel completed – The Hummingbird Wizard - and I am doing research now on where to send it.

I’ve written 8 plays. One, Aztec Daughter, was recently performed in Pennsylvania. I need to send out queries for these as well. One has to keep trying to make it happen.

Email me and we'll talk: dteeuwen@gmail.com

Here's a link if you want to evaluate:

http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/11/26/9287/1674

I do experimental writing and poetry. My first real collection is coming out this week or next. It's called 'Destroy all Planets' and has a very familiar cover (well, familiar to folks here).

I am also writing my book Miso which I'm planning to make into a life's work kind of thing, something to mine for material from time to time, but not to be published until much later on. Hopefully it will bloom to 1,000,000 words.

I''m also taking a break from my novel The Long Friday because I need to tear it apart now that it's complete and intersect some of Miso into it and then re-write a bunch of it. And then try and really take it off the rails, but keep it fun and interesting. Admittedly it's a bit of a reach-around to WSB, but that's okay.

All books I publish will be published through Lulu or some such site. I figure it's the best way to make some actual money at all of this.

I also have a project on the go with some other people from here and elsewhere, but you won't hear about that until it's something dead for sure, like it's been printed and sitting in a warehouse.

i'm up for collaborations if you're into it.

Also, for the interested few, my book, Destroy All Planets: http://www.lulu.com/content/5080805