Wisp 13 is now released.
Here’s my editorial:
Exquisite Corpse
by Éric P. Lemoine
Spontaneity—genuine spontaneity— beyond what appearances might tell us, is not something that comes easily, especially given our usual upbringing which tends to bend or harness it into something productive for society.
The Surrealist movement in the 1920s is remembered among other things for artistic and playful experiments that led to expanding our boundaries and views of reality by practising spontaneity without allowing the thought process to hold the full prominence it usually gets. Automatic writing —and automatic drawing— were in fact techniques that Surrealists developed extensively, before they were used by pioneers of conscious exploration such as Jane Roberts.
One of their games/experiments in particular was known as “cadavre exquis” (exquisite corpse). It required a group of people to collaborate in order to compose something (initially sentences, but by extension, drawing, collage etc.) without having a complete view of what the others had contributed to the creation.
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\\ tags: surrealism, wisp
As I was publishing a new version of my website, I noticed that some of the little animations I had previously inserted with the bas_flvplayer plugin had ceased to function. Well, apparently… because on other computers they seemed to still look fine.
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Thanks to the pervasiveness and performances of the Internet, it’s now possible to have very complex programs run from your web browser, programs that were only destined to your desktop before.
It’s usually called “the Cloud” (or cloud computing), and allows the access via the Internet to complex programs. You probably already knew about Google docs and your favourite word processor, or spreadsheet program, but coming from up the cloud, we are talking about different kinds of birds. Graphic programs more like Adobe’s Photoshop, except that here, it’s for free (at least for the basic version), and you don’t have to install anything on your computer.
Check out Aviary; even if you’re not interested in computer graphics, the website concept alone is worth checking out, with each project being represented by a colourful bird, the symbols’ continuity being pushed to having eggs for their coming projects (which look very interesting as well), or a broken egg for “404 not found” errors.
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\\ tags: adobe, aviary, bird, cloud, computer graphics
I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new experience, I register to see by myself what it’s all about.
The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be automated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are relatively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.)
These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee.
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\\ tags: amazon, consciousness, task, turk
 Wisp — volume 2 / front cover
After having published with much satisfaction a few books1 with Lulu (one of the main actors in the print-on-demand services) this post is listing some of the things that may be useful to know (or to remember after a bit of trial and errors) to design a source file that will produce the perfect PDF file.
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\\ tags: adobe, book, circle of eights, eps, ezine, indesign, lulu, pdf, print-on-demand, process, wisp
 The book has arrived this morning!
It’s a compilation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a reference at the interlocking circles that brought our interests together, as symbolized by the pseudonym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nicknames.
It is much more than one story actually, and quite difficult to summarize as it’s interactive, non-linear, and spans many interests at once. A bit of a challenge to get the hang of it, but immensely rewarding in fun.
We’ve decided to publish a first volume of these stories as much for our own personal pleasure as it’s also a way to have the content more easily explored. Coincidentally, the 888th addition to the stories was made on August 8th 2008, but it’s only one of the many synchronicities that surrounded the creation.
I chose Lulu to print the book, which is a self-publishing service, and the quality is really great, as you can tell on the pictures.
It’s a really large book (350 pages black and white, perfect bound). The exterior (paperback) is all shiny and Tracy’s picture of the cave in Jimena, Spain is looking awesome on the back.
A look inside, with illustrations I created along the stories 
If you want to give it a read, there is the stories website, and the link to order Circle of Eights.
Woohoo 
(2009–03-12 EDIT: the second volume is out too)
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\\ tags: book, circle of eights, elikozoe, pictures, stories, yurara fameliki
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written by Yuki
\\ tags: ezine, wisp
Internet is a fantastic and creative way we got to reflect the intricacies of our creations, and also the ease with which we can manifest.
Think of how easy it is to order the last book or DVD — even if it has a very discreet distribution on some remote part of the world, there is always a means to get it.
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\\ tags: attention, internet, manifestation, proxy
Lots of our daily tasks are tedious to do, probably a large percentage of them, by anyone’s account… But what if it were just a matter of perspective after all.
Imagine that you have to sort out old files, and tag entries, or copy stuff. Can you imagine anything more boring? It sometimes requires the patience of a monk to do these repetitive tasks, like in the old days of the copyists, before the invention of the movable type printing…
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\\ tags: google, image, playfulness
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