mining the reject pile

by jebni on June 15, 2003

Was rootling around for unfilmed scripts on the Web, and obviously found William Gibson’s rejected Alien 3 script. Which somehow then led me to Michael Chabon’s rejected X-Men script. (BTW, check out the rest of Chabon’s site, which feels like (…)

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the revenge of prepress

by jebni on June 14, 2003

Finished the booklet for A’s funeral. A typographic crisis: wanting to do something warmly elegiac and somewhat crafty (like a book of Seamus Heaney poems should look), I chose to set it in Caslon. But when I set the display (…)

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wave machine

by jebni on June 13, 2003

Last night on the train, I was sitting next to a window with a thin slice of water trapped between its double panes. The subtlest lurching movement of the train sent waves crashing across my field of vision, all the (…)

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the disaster of interpretation

by jebni on June 9, 2003

It’s been a strange couple of weeks for interpretation. Firstly, the feedback from various people on this blog has lately brought up questions of what I actually mean when I use the particular words. All of this dialogue has been (…)

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