did he? I thought he typed it.
"...On Friday, September 1, 2000, I began retyping the day's *New York Times
*, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the
lower right hand corner, page by page." It took Goldsmith nearly six months
of full-time work to complete his self-imposed task of transcribing that
day's edition of the limes.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Quote: 'typing the NYT.....'
>
>
> But, Catherine, he didn't type it, he scanned it.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:49:39 -0700, Catherine Daly
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I'm fnding this all fascinatng to consider in many ways.
> >For a book I'm wrting, I have long been researching courtesans, and
> have
> >just moved back to Nell Gwynn and Mary Robinson (though much later
> than
> >Gwynn). Charles 2, not Charles 1, but. A gifted ad libber and an
> actor in
> >versions of Shakespeare by other people.
> >
> >One of the things that KG has underplayed recently is the performative
> >nature of his work. KJ is the most unlikely of performance artists, but
> I
> >think in the theatre of appropriation, slight of hand, western snake oil
> as
> >false marketing, versus eastern snake oil as a help for joint pain...
> typing
> >the NYT or 1010WINS weather report is much different than applying
> stickers.
> > And this dirty trick of stealing reality or old books and putting them on
> >stage.
> >
> >Then, too, someone on poetics mentioned the whole idea of progress
> in the
> >debate is somewhat questionable. I have a rather different take:
> Kent's is
> >really not the purer concept, or the furthest along. It seems more like
> if
> >the NYT is 1.0, KG is 2.0, and KJ is 2.1.
> >
> >Each segment captures a different intent:
> >
> > - the major segment indicates breakage in the API
> > - the minor segment indicates "externally visible" changes
> > - the service segment indicates bug fixes and the change of
> development
> > stream (the semantics attached to development stream is new to
> this
> > proposal, see below)
> > - the qualifier segment indicates a particular build
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >All best,
> >Catherine Daly
> >[log in to unmask]
>
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All best,
Catherine Daly
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