MOBIUS:
a written and visual collaboration
The following poem by Taleen Kalenderian consists of interlaced circular sentences taking inspiration from John Barth's "Frame Tale." Illustrator John McCormick accompanies the piece with his line drawings.
DUM DUM Serials: “DOWN” by Jessica Garrison
DUM DUM would like to introduce Jessica Garrison as the first writer we've invited to participate in our spankin' new online serials. Each month, we'll introduce a new short story by Garrison, serializing short works from her $1 Books series.
STANDING IN LINE: Outside the Edison Travis Barnes
Standing in line is an unpleasant reality of going out anywhere in L.A. We don't dwell on it, but we'll spend hours standing around on the street in our hoochie-best waiting for some chump to give us permission to enter.
Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness
Welcome, Dummies, to Lightness & Darkness! You may have gotten a taste for our new project at its recent Skylight debut, where we released some of the sonic-literary material in the form of an album. But heads up: we're fleshing it out into a full book which stands on its own.
Los Angeles, A Graveyard Liska Jacobs
A graveyard beneath our feet: if you are on a sidewalk, it was once an apartment, a storefront; a tree once stood there. Not one or the other. But layers upon forgotten layers. Before Disney Hall, there were the slums of Bunker Hill, and before the slums there was middle class Bunker Hill, and even...
Excorcise Won Suzanne Oshinsky
"Excorcise Won" is filled with poetic visuals about miscommunication in language. It is artist Suzanne Oshinsky's second submission to DUM DUM, a follow-up to her "Notes" series which collects fragments that explore notions of seeing vs. hearing.
CicLAvia: Cycling Through Unoccupied Streets Travis Barnes
It’s an eerie feeling--dropping down on your bike into a busy intersection near Wilshire and Vermont midmorning and finding yourself without a car in sight, their honks and screeches replaced by bicycle freewheel ticks and children playing. Recall the end of that Zombie flick, where the abandoned skyscrapers and streets form desolate steel and concrete...
SEX FACE Kenton deAngeli
(please read aloud) I don’t know if God created the Earth 6,000 years ago or if it has been 14 billion since the entire universe tore itself into existence from a roiling confusion of hyper-energized space-time and screamed outwards into the galaxy, creating all known matter and energy giving us, our matter, our atoms, a...
HEIMAT + THE GREY FOX Diana Arterian
Heimat There is a German word – Heimat for the phenomenon of coming upon a place that was previously unknown to you but is, undoubtedly, home You are this – unexpected, sterling, true The Grey Fox I saw her, but only in silhouette – twice while crossing the road. Rumors of a dead...
Are you there Me? It’s Me, Vivian Vivian Martinez
3/14 7pm [flying to NYC to see my sister from São Paulo, hours after “God” “found” me] Holy Shit journal. My world has been shattered. I actually might have had an experience with God. or maybe I should write G-d. It all started w/my conversation with Eduardo about God jesus etc. He said that...
SHHH… Zach Plague
A skeletal series of grave comics by Zach Plague of Featherproof; a new one posted each week of October.
Hechos Violentos David Scheier
Hechos Violentos, a video poem: Mal que termina en Juarez City, Chihuahua Mexico, August 19th 2010.