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Thursday, 13th November, 2008
Image by Virginia Konchan
Virginia Konchan has submitted to the ongoing Public Figures submissions. Check out her entry here.
See also the other submissions, as well as the Public Figures project (itself ongoing, of which this is one setting). Consider sending Lauren a submission of your own!
Monday, 3rd November, 2008
You should be subscribed to the HOW2 Postcard blog, but in case you’re not, there is a new post by Julia Bloch up on the site, at http://how2postcard.blogspot.com.
Check it out. I’ve also finally tackled the rather nasty formatting of that blog, and plan to attack the other one soon. Please contact me if you notice anything awry.
As usual, you can follow the link on the right of the Postcard blog to find out how to submit your own postcards.
Tuesday, 3rd June, 2008
Well well. No sooner had I clicked PUBLISH on yesterday’s post about How2 participation, and the first Public Figures submission for months falls into my inbox.
So check out Jillian Yamasawa’s B(u)y A Handkerchief, on your way to checking out all of the submissions. And why not submit one yourself. No statues in your area? I don’t believe you.
Monday, 2nd June, 2008
Even in the 3 years I’ve webmastered How2, I’ve noticed more and more in the way of potential for interaction with some of its features. As of the past few issues, this is not solely possible through writing postcards; Jena Osman’s Public Figures work featured in Volume 3, Issue 1 is accepting ongoing submissions of work, four of which are now up and linked from the current issue.
In this issue, a new piece of work in the new media section – GilbertandGrape’s Lone Ranging Romance 2004-2008 –invites readers to embark on an audio-visual interactive hike, before plotting his or her own route for G&G, through a rather nifty Flash-based freehand drawing interface. Draw it, save it, and your route is saved with everyone else’s.
These pieces, as well as the ongoing postcards, are daring ventures. They rely on the participation of the readership to help them succeed in growing and becoming something unpredictable to the author. But they need you in order to achieve this.
Lone Ranging Romance 2004-2008 can be seen here.
Public Figures can be seen here.
View postcards here.
And pass on the word that with a little momentum, How2 can evolve and expand between issues…!
Thursday, 29th May, 2008
It’s taken a while to come through, but the new issue is up. You’ll notice there’s been a considerable redesign of the site, which, from this issue, I’ve rebuilt from scratch. The clutter has been removed, the code is clean, valid XHTML and CSS (so it’ll work better), I think it looks better, and it allows the quality of the content to speak for itself and come through to the fore.
It’s nice to no longer be working in terms of other people’s designs and code — not a criticism to those responsible for the old design or programming, but the constructivist nature of the building across designers meant that the site was inefficient, unwieldy and out-of-date. Hopefully no more.
And I just hope nothing’s broken.
Check it out at http://www.how2journal.com
Wednesday, 19th March, 2008
There is a new addition to the ongoing submissions in response to Jena Osman’s ongoing Public Figures project, featured in Vol.3 No.1 of HOW2.
Go straight to Frances Presley’s Anne R here.
Submissions are ongoing. If you would like to submit work in response to the project, check out the submission guidelines, and email Lauren Shufran with your submission.
Thursday, 28th February, 2008
Five new Postcards are up on the HOW2 Postcard site, with contributions from:
Cara Benson
Suzanna Fry
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Anna Reckin
Addie Tsai
These form part of a larger section on Ecopoetics in the forthcoming issue of HOW2. Estimated launch date: kinda soon.
Tuesday, 26th February, 2008
“Poetry, essays, fiction, translation, interviews”
“An annual journal dedicated to exploring creative-critical edges between making (with an emphasis on writing) and ecology (the theory and praxis of deliberate earthlings).”
The site contains all sold-out issues as free PDF downloads.
Thanks to the interesting work from the forthcoming HOW2 for bringing this site to my attention. And while I’m on the subject, I’m working my arse off webbing the new issue as we speak. The new issue has a HUGE Ecopoetics section, which is itself 3 section-length sub-sections. Phew.
Wednesday, 23rd January, 2008
There’s a new postcard contribution up – between issues no less – at HOW2 Postcards. Add it to yer RSS feeds.
Saturday, 22nd December, 2007
Those of you who are familiar with HOW2 will know about the incarnation of Jena Osman’s ongoing “Public Figures” project (set in Flash by me indeed) in the current issue. Well, the ball is rolling with a new contribution by Francis Raven.
ALL readers of HOW2 are encouraged to submit their photos and texts in response to the project. Send em to Lauren Shufran. Come on, you’ll need to walk off the Christmas dinner.
J