Workshop Exercises

Automatic Writing.. this was writing for 8 minutes approximately. I was interrupted by someone talking to me, our internet is too slow at home Rolando so I work at university however sometimes people in the computer lab do stop and call out something, I noticed I had my concentration interrupted briefly just twice... and I used the letter, Q to denote this.

If  I eat a lot of apples and oranges, I start to feel as if I can getting too full and then I want to eat something light such as some grapes. I seem to have changed in to a pear shaped person and I need to correct the “in balance”, as I see it and I need to refocus my energies and attempt to be a little more top heavy because I find my legs are too heavy to carry sometimes. I think that sometimes it is good to have strong little legs because then I can walk long distances, for example to Greensborough from the university in Bundoora and then I feel really tired and I sleep like a little baby. I think the Vietnamese students I live with are awesome in every way imaginable because they have great eating habits and they never seem to vary from the routine, meaning to say, they are very methodical and religious about eating their meals, breakfast, lunch and diner, unlike myself and I tend to eat sporadically and I know that this is not the best idea because our bodies are like machines and need to be fueled and refueled ready for a big day ahead and then they operate at maximum efficiency and then I am able to get a lot done without stopping to take breath.. almost, LOL.  I mean, when I feel that my energy is at an all time optimum level then I know that I won’t have to stop for breaks, rather I can attend class and then return to the computer lab and finish my homework and then go to the library and write some more on the computers there and sometimes I go to the Thomas Cherry Building and I continue to write there. I enjoy the Working With Words subject with Rolando Caputo and I wonder if sometime I can learn Italian and I want to learn the language with Cos who also attends our university. The ladies at Café Veloci know Italian because they were born in Italy and they are talking their mother tongue together during work hours. I really love the language and many people think I might be Italian, however I am not, I was born in Bundoora a couple of years before the university was built here, in 1965. My mother used to push me in the pram through the university to Northlands and my father picked us up on  his way home from work. My parents have been really good to me, although at the moment there seems to be a standoff between the males and me in the family. Perhaps they think I am always at La Trobe University, which is true enough as I have been here everyday for at least the last five years and then before that, about five days a week. I find that the resources here are second to none other and I thoroughly enjoy the social scene and the landscape is picturesque. I think that we are fortunate to have been Qapart of this university domain for such along stint, in one way or another, for nearly half a decade as this place seems to have the internet which operates at maximum speed, especially on the third level of the library, so I am told. I think that the computer labs are awesome because I can access them 24/7 and I seem to be able to get a computer very easily when I pass by on my way to class and as I do not have a mobile phone this means I can stay in contact with the people I know on facebook through cyberspace. I studied a lot of Sociology before and I recall that in the subjects we learnt a lot about humanity and what it is to be a good person and how to treat other people. I was looking for Rosemary Wearing who taught me on facebook and I found her, fortunately she had a photograph on her home page so I definitely knew it was her. She was one of my all time favourite teachers at the university and I hope I meet up with her again. I think that media studies has been much easier than studying a business degree and I think that Qi was going to be able to write uninterrupted Rolando however I was interrupted by a lecturer in the computer lab and thought I had best talk back.

Exquisite Corpse
The eccentric carrot lunges at the young man.
The important infant orbits in to space.
The peculiar ostrich skips in to a crowded room.

Cut Up Method

word based:

word and image based:


Edward Hopper Paintings

Conversation/prose story Nighthawks

Night Hawks was inspired by a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich avenue where two streets meet however the image with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative has a timeless, universal quality which transcends particular local. There are three customers who are lost in their own thoughts and they have congregated. Hooper’s understanding of the expressive possibilities of light playing on two implied shapes gives the painting an implied shape gives the painting its beauty. Fluorescent light have just come in to usage in the 40’s and the all night diner emits a glow. Hooper eliminated   any reference to an entrance and the four anonymous characters are non-communicative and remote from the viewer as to one another. Hooper acknowledged that in Night Hawks ‘unconsciously’ was a painting of the loneliness souls in a large city.

names.. the woman is Amanda,A the man is Ralph R and the man sitting furtherest away is Stuart S

A: I was wondering if you are going to be here every week at this time, I am rather interested in you.
R: that works for me, 8.30pm on a Tuesday night because my wife goes to the tennis club at that time.
A: great, you are looking exceptionally handsome by the way, younger than ever, I am so glad we bumped in to each other after all those years apart, I could not have stood it another minute more.
R:: me either, I have been making cut-ups at home of what you look like and when I did see you for the first time last week, I thought to myself, this girl is the one for me and I will never, ever let go of her or let her out of my sight again. This girl makes me feel good in side and ...
A: Is that a gun in your pants or are you just glad to see me?
S: I heard that and well, obviously, you still do it for him, I have not seen him looking this happy in years, that ain't no gun in his pants sweetheart, let me assure you of that... Get a room.. there are plenty available upstairs.
A: oh, that would suit me down to the ground, why thankyou for the suggestion Stuart, you always did have bright ideas and why don't you join us for that matter, you are looking exceptionally handsome I might add.
S: I don't mind if I do, come along then, a menage a trois is always high on my agenda, especially with the two of you, Amanda and Ralph.

interior monologue Automat  (1927)

The painting does portray a lone woman who stares in to a cup of coffee in an Automat time. The reflection of identical row of light fixtures stretches out through the night blackened window. Hooper’s wife, so served as a model for the women however Hooper altered her face from being a 44 year old woman much younger in years and her figure to was a curvy, full-figured woman and one critic describes the woman in the painting as flat chested and boyish. The woman’s circumstances and her mood are ambiguous. She is well-educated and wears make-up perhaps to indicate she is on her way to work at a job where personal appearances is important or else she is going to a social occasion.

She has removed one glove which could indicate she has been distracted and that she is in a hurry or that she has come from outside and is not yet warmed up. The latter possibility seems unlikely.

 what the woman thinks about.
Well, when I get home today, I plan on making a pizza with anchovies for my new family.It will be better than ever, better than one I have ever made before, they will be so happy with my efforts and I am certain that they will want me to make them in the shop next week for the customers. I believe that my skills in this area are second to nobody and that this shop will keep me on for along time to come at La Trobe University in Bundoora. I am aware that my pizza is relatively new to the menu, having made pizzas and coffee for the last seven years, I think that cafe Veloci would benefit from my Food Technology certificate skills and as far as being creative is concerned and I believe that Rosanna, Philamena and Andrew will want to take home the pizzas that I offer them. If I am really good today I believe that they will give me a pizza making job next week and I think they will let me start making coffee the following week. I have been taking the rubbish for them for along time and I think that the International students will be more than happy to offer me a hand.


OuLiPo writing exercises: Janet Sarah Bridgman...Rajah German Bandits.

free form anagram: Janet Sarah Bridgman...
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short story:

Jayden, Anne and I are a triage at university and right at ten I eat and trade red ants. The university is at Bundoora and my grades are improving slowly. The trams are direct and as I eat near university, I aim at improving my grades yet again and again. The university maids are a great gain and many are at university at eight to night time. I aim to get grades...reading. The university is a great area and nine jets get there. The main aim is eating and then to slowly get rest. East trains are rare, in India, trains met the university at a ridge. Indian university aims at improving maids grades slowly. The university may strain and yet direct a hard head and the university then adjust grades at Bundoora. The Bundoora university is a great university and I sat in the main area and ate.