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Month: June 2011

Love letters, love songs and now other songs too!

Love letters, love songs and now other songs too!

Late Breaking News

Thanks to a rambly facebook conversation you may also ask me to record one of my existing songs for $20. This is utterly terrifying, but that’s what experimental playing fields like the Write-a-thon are for. Jenny Mason has sponsored the Phone Song.

In other news
Day 1 has been posted up at Love Letters to Inanimate Objects. Love letter to a Spork is up there. If I don’t collapse first I’ll be posting something there tonight (I won’t be cross-posting much ’cause I don’t want to clutter your lives).

Love Letters – discoveries and new website.

Love Letters – discoveries and new website.

New York 2010 - curls in the walls
Discoveries

My love letters to inanimate objects project is in its early days, but this is what I have discovered so far (who knows where the stream will take me next, 6 weeks in length I hope for more mutations and new creative challenges).

Several works have been completed and have been sent to their initiators. They will go live in Week 1 of the write-a-thon on website I am creating right now https://objectsoflove.wordpress.com . If you go there now you can see it in all its ugly duckling grandeur as I fiddle with themes and play with content. The subscribe button on the right hand side works however!

As you can see, one of the first things I’ve discovered is that this project wants its own space to play and breathe in.

Discoveries – preparation – 24 June 2011

Some people gave me my prompts early and I was unable to resist the pull of their nouns. Denying the tug of inspiration for the Write-a-thon seemed to go against the Write-a-thon’s deepest principals and so I went with it and began creating.

When I imagined this fun project a year ago I thought it would be a good opportunity to throw myself with wild passionate abandon into things far from myself.

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