Theme Issues?
How do you guys feel about themed issues of the Dovetail Collective? Cause I have some ideas...
-One issue where everyone submits a photo they've taken looking outside of their bedroom window. Perhaps writing to accompany the photograph(observations viewed and heard from the window, etc.). This idea came from here:
http://lappareil.free.fr/window/map.html click on the red dots for pictures and field recording.
-I like maps and making maps. It would be neat to have a "map issue" of the Dovetail Collective, but the possibilites are so endless, they could really be incorporated in every issue. Ideas include: a map of your route to work or class. Map your bedroom, closet, or pantry. Map your mind. Make a floorplan of your childhood home (like the Common Writing some of us did at NELP). Map the best places to buy cookies or beer where you live. Map the inside of your grocery store and the things you buy. Map a memory. your scars. a face. a trip, a route. anything, really. And these all can provide great inspiration material for poems, essays, stories, musings, or the other way around. Check out this totally sweet book by Katharine Harmon for inspiration:
What are your thoughts on themed issues? maps? What are your ideas?
-em
-One issue where everyone submits a photo they've taken looking outside of their bedroom window. Perhaps writing to accompany the photograph(observations viewed and heard from the window, etc.). This idea came from here:
http://lappareil.free.fr/window/map.html click on the red dots for pictures and field recording.
-I like maps and making maps. It would be neat to have a "map issue" of the Dovetail Collective, but the possibilites are so endless, they could really be incorporated in every issue. Ideas include: a map of your route to work or class. Map your bedroom, closet, or pantry. Map your mind. Make a floorplan of your childhood home (like the Common Writing some of us did at NELP). Map the best places to buy cookies or beer where you live. Map the inside of your grocery store and the things you buy. Map a memory. your scars. a face. a trip, a route. anything, really. And these all can provide great inspiration material for poems, essays, stories, musings, or the other way around. Check out this totally sweet book by Katharine Harmon for inspiration:
What are your thoughts on themed issues? maps? What are your ideas?
-em
posted by Dovetail at 1:27 AM
9 Comments:
AH! It's great, all of the above, let's do it all. I think that specific assignments are really fun to try to fulfill creatively, and also inspire a lot of discussion/further writing when shared since we see how differently everyone responded to the same question.
Do we want to make the next one themed? The only thing we've been asked to submit so far is a "What You're Reading" or "What You're Listening To" piece. Do we want to do a bedroom window photograph issue? Or a map issue? Or another theme?
xoxo
Abbi
i wholeheartedly support themes. things are so much easier with a little structure...
blackbox does a themed radio show every month and i always find it a lot easir to think up pieces.
h rad
i only read the first paragraph of this post so far, but real quick i wanted to say that i've been taking a photo out my window every so often since last august (or so). i like the idea!
p.s. i'm emily's friend in burlington! (well, one of them)
heather-
I think h-rad should be your new nickname. Or maybe it is your nickname already and I just didn't know that about you.
-emily
Perhaps we should come up with a schedule for future DC's...or at least plan 2 issues in advance. I'd love to do the bedroom window peice soon, but doing it next issue might not give us enough time(1 month)for everyone to take photos, develop film(assuming your taking them the old fashioned way), and write peices to accompany. So should we plan on it for Issue 4 that will come out in May? There will be more flowers and green things then anyway...although this would be a neat thing to do each season(perhaps a DC side project?)
ugh. makes me think of j-rod. (shudder.)
windows for issue four sounds GREAT! do we want to do maps for issue three? or does someone have another theme idea in mind?
hi mec!
xo
abbi
I was thinking that issue 3 won't have a theme per se, but that I might try the layout this time--experimenting with more of a "cut-and-paste" aesthetic--using scissors and glue and a copy machine, and minimal computer design. I'll encourage everyone to send either hardcopies of their submissions, especially handwritten/drawn and typewritten entries. You can also send in scanned versions and I can print them out. Maybe map issue after the bedroom window issue? I just feel like it will take some time to spread the word, trigger mapping ideas, and to do the actual mapping. How does that sound?
mle
sounds great!
xo
abbi
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