In Search of... NPR's Morning Edition

With my unfocused attention glued to WUWM at 5:50 AM (good thing Lola and I took an abbreviated walk) in search of a continued fix of the Obama Iowa victory, I had the serendipidous fortune to catch the beginning of a story on the unsolved case of D.B. Cooper. My hearing cut through the narrative and found the brief Leonard Nimoy excerpt from the In Search of... D.B. Cooper episode (Season 4, Episode 11, 6 December 1979).

Click and listen.

Or check out the FBI case page.

Convergences are euphoric.

Visual Narratives

A fellow student sent me her syllabus for a spring course that seems to be designed to fit my creative and academic (are those separate? opposing?) interests. Unfortunately, its in the middle of the day, which means one can't work a non-academic job and attend class.

In celebration of wishful thinking, here's the list:

Course Description

This graduate seminar is designed to facilitate a deeper understanding of relationships between image and text within contemporary narrative forms including hypertext, multimedia and 20^th Century experimental literary and art movements such as DADA, Oulipo and Fluxus, and to see how these movements anticipate and configure creative web content. We will focus upon narrative structure in “post-realist” literature.

Texts (books to acquire, all paperback) (All texts in order of appearance)

•Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction, David Hopkins

•If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

•Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, George Perec

•This Is Not a Pipe, Michel Foucault

•Networked Art, Craig Saper

•Writing Machines, Katherine Hayles

Texts (on D2L)

•Locus Solus (excerpt), Raymond Roussel (chapter 3)

•The DADA Reader: A critical Anthology, Dawn Ales-editor (various)

•Women In DADA, Naomi Sawelson-Gorse-editor (chapter on Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven)

•Oulipo Compendium , Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie (various)

•Oulipo – A Primer of Potential Literature, Warren Motte Jr. (various)

•Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau, (excerpt)

•Ways of Seeing, John Berger (Chapter 1)

•Maps of the Imagination: The Writer As Cartographer (excerpt: A Rigorous Geometry)

•Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin

•Wanderlust (Chapter 12: Paris, Or Botanizing On the Asphalt), Rebecca Solnit

•Fluxus Experience, Hannah Higgins (excerpt)

•Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (various)

•Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (chapter 1)

•Database Aesthetic, Victoria Vesna-editor (various)

•The Vintage Book of Amnesia, Jonathan Lethem-editor (Murakami story, Worth story)

•House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski (excerpt)

•The Shaping of Hypertextual Narrative, Sergio Cicconi (on web)

•Incidence, Daniil Kharms (excerpt)

•The Medium is the Massage, McLuhan & Fiore

•Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millenium (chapters 12 & 14)

Films

•The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes (VHS video) (Golda Meir media, Episode 2)

•Experimental Avant Garde Series (various) (English Department Film Library) (various)

•The Five Obstructions, Jorgen Leth & Lars Von Trier (DVD)

•Powers of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames (VHS video)

•How To Draw a Bunny, John Walter & Andrew Moore (DVD)

•Memento, Christopher Nolan

In Search of... Rinder & Lewis

Lamenting the disappearance of In Search of... from my television rotation, I found this sweet blog dedicated to found vinyl treasures, specifically a mention of the Rinder & Lewis soundtrack to In Search of...

And it is sweet hot music to my ears.

Now, back to scouring my memory for lost episodes...