The Websafe Times: Doodles to TWiG 27

Writer Statement

I agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one.

My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme.

The Decryption of Floriform X -- This short, illustrated fiction was written on Twitter circa 2008, each tweet numbered to keep track.

The God of Wind and Air -- Unfinished sequel to Decryption, written collaboratively on Twitter.

The Manuscript of Jacob Hall -- Why write fiction? What is it "for"?

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Doodles to TWiG 27

The five digital-art pieces shown below were done while tuned in to TWiT.TV via YouTube, watching the first hour and eight minutes of TWiG (This Week in Google) No. 27, in which (among other tech things) Apple's new iPad is discussed. In my third and fourth pieces, one can see a modified reference (the white-outlined shape at center right) to Leo Laporte's and Heather Gold's high-quality mics, which drew my visual attention.