In 1961, this submission letter — written by an aspiring 14-year-old author named Stephen King — arrived at the offices of Spacemen Magazine accompanied by a copy of “The Killer,” the short story in question. Unfortunately for Stephen the magazine’s editor, Forrest Ackerman, didn’t deem the tale worthy of inclusion at that point.
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Also tagged action, America, application, DIY, found, fuckem, fun, kid, letter, magazine, published, romance, sent, short, Stephen King, submission, text, unknown, USA, writing, youth
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Also tagged assemblage, boat, collection, DIY, found, germany, hans-peter feldmann, installation, man, narrative, naval, painting, portrait, romance, scene, sea, sequence, ship, the wild, together, unknown, wall, woman
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Horace Pippin, ‘John Brown Going to his Hanging’ (1942)
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Also tagged abolition, action, american, black, cart, convicted, crowd, documentary, hanging, history, Horace Pippin, horse, john brown, naive, painting, people, race, racism, slavery, white
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Jimmie Durham, ‘The Piece of Wood’ (2005)
Read the piece of wood’s biography here.
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Also tagged agency, american, biography, collection, description, DIY, found object, germany, jimmie durham, living, material, narrative, nature, object, object-oriented, paper, piece, romance, soul, text, the wild, unknown, USA, wall, wood, writing
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The novel ‘Cosmos’ (1965) by Witold Gombrowicz.
“[…] In Cosmos, I am telling the simple story of a simple student. This student goes to spend his holidays as a paying guest in a house where he meets two women, one has a hideous mouth which has been ruined by a motor car accident, while the other has an attractive mouth. The two mouths are associated in his mind and become an obsession. On the other hand he has seen a sparrow hanging from a wire and a piece of wood hanging from a thread… . And all this, a little out of boredom, a little out of curiosity, a little out of love, out of violent passion, starts dragging him towards a certain means of action … to which he abandons himself, but not without skepticism. […] Cosmos is an ordinary introduction to an extraordinary world, to the wings of the world, if you like.” – W. Gombrowicz
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Also tagged absurdist, book, cosmos, dead bird, forest, found, fuchs, fuckem, hanging, hung, katasia, lena, meaning, modernism, novel, objects, piece, polish, signs, sparrow, string, suspicion, text, the wild, things, unknown, vacation home, wire, witold, Witold Gombrowicz, wood
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Sarah Forrest, ‘The Hook and The Artist’ (2009)
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Also tagged art history, artist, glasgow, hook, making, object, orchid, piet zwart institute, portrait, process, sarah forrest, speaking, studio, thinking, video, vimeo
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Beth Collar, ‘(sketch for a woman’s hand emerging from a flooded quarry)’ (2014)
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Also tagged absurd, action, beth collar, bristol, duration, emergency, hand, icon, lake, nature, performance, photograph, public space, romance, sketch, sketches, subdue, the wild, unknown, water
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Jimmie Durham, ‘Himmel und Erde müssen vergehen’ (2000)
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Also tagged accident, DIY, earth, fall, fuckem, fun, heaven, jimmie durham, meteor, nature, rock, sculpture, shirt, sky, soul, the wild
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Page from Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’ (2000)
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Also tagged apartment, architecture, building, chris ware, comic book, DIY, drawing, found, fun, graphic novel, literature, little jimmy corrigan, movie, narrative, romance, see-through, smartest kid on earth, storyline, text, wall
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Pieter Aertsen, ‘The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory’ (1565-1575)
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Also tagged abundance, allegory, dutch, fat kitchen, food, genre painting, gluttony, light, mannerism, painter, pieter aertsen, renaissance, romance, scene, stove, symbolism, the wild, unknown
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