This is a project I did with two others whose names are Debby Florence and Ann Stevenson. They are both writers and they performed the typing in the images above and I performed the drawings. This event took place at the DIY bazaar at the crystal theatre, which is in the 515 restaurant, a few months ago.
So debby Florence was the originator of the rapid memo typing service , which essentially typed memos on demand for people at a past DIY Bazaar. Debby, whom also founded Slumgullion- definitely check it out, and I were talking a lot about spontaneous art making and some how I managed to become involved in the next Rapid Memo event as the Imageographer, spoken like photographer but with image instead of phot. My contribution was to draw spontaneously as they dictated what they were typing.
So a DIY bazaar is a place were people, mostly local artists, come to sell their goodies, or perfrom their goodies- In our case we performed and sold our goodies. There is a general artistic sense with this event, so you are more likey to find projects like ours rather then wicker baskets. There was also acoustic live music on the stage the whole time.
So our table went like this. A willing customer would approach, we would then ask for a subject and a topic/idea/action etc. Then we would begin our spontaneous creation. Debby and Ann typed something on a piece of paper, and as they typed they dictated and then i drew based on their dictation. Once finished we would tear out the typing and paste it onto the back of the drawing. In the images above the drawing is first and the corresponding words are below. Then we would scan both the typing and the drawing into the computer, then fold it in half and sold it to the customer for $5 as a card. Each instance lasted probably 5-10 minutes. We ended up having to create a waiting list because we couldn't keep up. We ended up doing about 25 total.
We are also working on a book of all the cards we made, which should be available soon.
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