DOOM by David Clarkson
Available at Impulse[b:] eBooks
An experimental graphic novel, and an epic visual pop poem, Clarkson’s digital book is a 750-page lyric listicle of doom. DOOM is a darkly, humorous allegory of our tragic epoch; visually hypnotic, smart and full of surprises. It takes a deep dive into doom tales. Through creative research and a captivating design, this experience into doom invites readers to create their own doom stories how one might relate to historical events today.
Please join us for a Zoom book launch on January 15th at 5pm with artist David Clarkson
Topic: DOOM Book Launch
Time: January 15, 2024 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/6672921480?pwd=bUwreTRPNzY3YmZFK2RIdUc4ekZjQT09&omn=82800935264
Meeting ID: 667 292 1480
Passcode: e6atMJ
Marshall Needles Mosquitoes by Tom Sherman
Available at Impulse[b:] Books
Marshall Needles Mosquitoes perforation flowers, reflected light, the light off the water, negative ions, dizziness, instruments, electric cars and electric guitars, city cemetery, full skeletal replacements, video spider, Anne Wehrer, tiny bubbles, feather.
Tom Sherman’s latest writing, Marshall Needles Mosquitoes, is a book where written language is rendered into visual image through photography and descriptive text. Sherman authors strings of images in a form of critical fiction, a page-to-page event horizon.
He writes: “In this book, a lot of it written in a remote coastal region of Nova Scotia, Sherman mixes micro-stories together with brief essays speculating on how looking at flowers is an act of deep listening, or how to survive the AI-driven invasion of electric vehicles. Another story describes the poetic timing mechanism inherent in our optic nerves, explaining how we lock up internally, electrically, with reflected light as it dances on the surface of the water. A lot of attention must be paid to perforation, the way advertising destroyed television and now smart phones are poking holes in the idea of conversation. A single video spider warns that the battle between film (cinema), and video(television) is heating up again, an argument in its hundredth year, like a contest in the ocean where bacteria and viruses kill each other in trillions daily. Air quality in wetlands depends on modern Cyanobacteria 3.7 billion-old memories of photosynthesis, and AI will turn every newspaper into a novella year after next.”
Book launch with artist talk. Saturday, January 13th from 2 to 5 pm at Art Metropole in Toronto. Further information will be announced at https://artmetropole.com/events.