Entries from May 2009 ↓

PDX Writer Daily interviews Laura about the Object Permanence project. Cool.

I’m going to head down tomorrow to get some pics, but in the meantime here’s one that PDX Writer took.

I wish I got the Object Mobile as a mobile writing studio after it was finished — it’s pretty…but I believe there’s a line.

Hey cool – my good friend Julianna Bright (of the Golden Bears) has her really, really great artwork  up on Etsy.

See her Etsy store here.

Update: Fixed the dates.

Laura and I launched the website for her Object Permanence art installation piece that will take place on the Portland State University campus from May 27 – May 29.

It’s a simple site, but I had forgotten how much fun it is to work on a project-based piece rather than a whole website.

The website is here: http://lauramoulton.org Let us know what you think.

Object Permanence is really cool. From Wikipedia’s entry:

Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Without this concept, there is no differentiation between the self and world. Objects would have no separate, permanent existence. This is why Piaget argued that object permanence is one of an infant’s most important accomplishments.

Ah come now, people, is this not the greatest most idiotic thing you’ve seen, ever? It’s real and not a mockup.

So awesome. I want one right now so that I can put it up on a pedestal as the ultimate indication we’re all going to a very special hell, (and that we’ll very likely have the tools to escape said hell when the time comes!) And err maybe so I can call my mother on it. And shave, while taking photos of myself, and checking my temperature, and tightening a few screws while I dial in some radio and laser point the neighbor’s cat.

It’s only $740 dollars.

Via John Scalzi’s Delicious feed

Danger Pony!

1) Couch was selected by Indie-Bound as a ‘Top 10 Reading Group Selection’ for Spring/Summer 2009, as mentioned on the Indie Bound website.  Christian Crider of Inkwood Books in Tampa, Florida said:

“Couch follows the quirky journey of Thom, Erik, and Tree as they venture into the unknown at the behest of a magical, orange couch, which has its own plan for their previously boring lives. Parzybok’s colorful characters, striking humor, and eccentric magical realism offer up an adventuresome read.”

Thanks, Christian! Here’s a link to Couch on Inkwood Books website, which seems a happy place to buy the book, or try the Indie Bound link above if, good god!, you haven’t bought it yet!? Oregonian Molly Gloss’s book The Hearts of Horses was also recommended which Laura Moulton, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant all raved about it.

2) It’s a tad early to mention this, but the Richard Hugo House in Seattle asked me to be a part of their Hugo Literary Series, about which I’m extremely excited. While I was there I saw the ‘My Avatar’ installment, featuring Christa Bell, Jennifer Finney Boylan and Vikram Chandra, super impressive performances all. The theme will be ‘Visiting Hours’ and that will happen in late November of this year. If you don’t know about the Richard Hugo House – spend some time on their website, it’s a powerhouse of a literary organization.

3) A subversive, anonymous, third-person-plural organization who call themselves ‘PDXWD‘  (formed of:  ‘a mash of wires and ponies’) talks about Couch and parking structures today. They appear to be recommending it over War and Peace, subversive indeed!

In a possibly related article: Danger Ponies banned!

4) Can someone please write a comic book called Danger Ponies?