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**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · May 6

**Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist Dad** @JPK_elmediat@mastodon.art · Apr 7

**luvan** @luvan@mamot.fr · Apr 3

Apr 3

luvan @luvan@mamot.fr

a short #asemic poem illustrating siamo tutti in periculo, by golem mécanique.

un texte asémique sur du papier quadrillé.

**letterspace.amsterdam** @lttrspc@typo.social · Mar 28

Mar 28

letterspace.amsterdam @lttrspc@typo.social

We’ve got mail 2
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Plain Text magazine by @plain_form
Recommended by @underware
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The magazine includes work by Ando Borione @daytonamess (who promised at @fontstand to be back on https://typo.social more often) and an interview with Ellmer Stefan @thepytefoundry about #Asemic Writing.
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https://text.plain-form.com/en/shop/plain-text-1

Wild works of Anne-Dauphine Borione a.k.a. Ando a.k.a. Daytona Mess

Introduction of the interview on asemic writing with Ellmer Stefan in English and French. The whole magazine is bilingual.

**wakest** @wakest@pixelfed.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

wakest @wakest@pixelfed.social

I like these #asemic doodles

A photo of some graffiti on a grey building

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 25

Continued thread

**wakest ⁂** @liaizon@wake.st · Feb 23

Feb 23

wakest ⁂ @liaizon@wake.st

OF COURSE THE ASEMIC IS ABSURD
"If I am writing about the word "asemic", I am thinking about patience and persistence. I am thinking about failure as a source of energy, as that which keeps an absurdist idea of enlightenment alive and almost thriving. Standing in the absurd center of the #asemic universe, we are surrounded by unexamined exits and entrances, unexplored starting-points, multiple escape-routes leading out in all directions." - jim leftwich, may 2021
https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2024/10/jim-leftwich-of-course-asemic-is-absurd.html

jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.comtextimagepoem: jim leftwich -- of course the asemic is absurd

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 23 *

Feb 23 *

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 22 of #Februllage2025 #DadaistCollage - #Asemic Poster ~ Historical Vinyl (Topic -Vinyl)

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#Art #Scanography #Childhood
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#Dada #Dadaism #AsemicWriting #Asemic #AsemicText #Memory #History #DeconstructedText
#AsemicArt

Components of the collage include 45 record, side Dominique sung by Debbie Reynolds in upper left. A cut-out piece of a collage that looks like album art emulating a Polaroid. Jimi H is written over it.
A duplicate of the cut-out is in the bottom left corner, with asemic writing. In the bottom left corner is a National Geographic Magazine insert record of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral.
The central image is a solar fire photo with a crop circle overlaid on top. An elderly man wearing a traditional round hat with a coloured pattern on top looks to the right, where a man and a woman are looking out of tall reeds.

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 23

Feb 23

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 18 of #Februllage2025 #DadaistCollage - #Asemic Poster ~ Polaroid Takes the Next Step (Topic -Polaroid)

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#Art #Scanography #Childhood #StarTrek
#DigitalArt #Dadaist #Collage
#Dada #Dadaism #AsemicWriting #Asemic #AsemicText #Memory #History #Old #DeconstructedText
#AsemicArt

Border resembles a manipulated Polaroid Transfer (includes asemic text). Upper portion is part of a 60s magazine ad, Large Text reads - Now Polaroid takes the next step. Fine text and a Polaroid Countdown 350. Cut-outs of a collage done in monochrome and colour with Polaroid style frame. Pieces of Polaroid ads can be seen in the background.

**wakest ⁂** @liaizon@wake.st · Feb 22

Feb 22

wakest ⁂ @liaizon@wake.st

just saw sad news of artist Jim Leftwich passing from a post by @differx. I am not sure if I ever met Jim in person, but have been inspired by his work many times over the years through his involvement with #Xexoxial and his work in #VisualPoetry, #asemic writing.

This is a piece entitled “Zaum Frottage” from `spidertangle _the book_` from 2002 put together by @memexikon (free pdf https://xexoxial.org/pdf/spidertangle_the_book_web.pdf)

via https://mastodon.uno/@differx/114049825530085984

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 21

Feb 21

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 21 of #Februllage2025 #DadaistCollage - #Asemic Poster ~ Old Trekkers (Topic -Old)

Right corner of digitally modified scan-bed collage - Monochrome shot of three youngsters in shallow water, one boy, ankle deep in water, holds a net.
Right corner - asemic writing -glyphs and inverted handwritten numbers on torn, stained paper.
Just below the monochrome photo is a torn cover with the word Star Trek (original show lettering).
Bottom section is a sepia photo of young men and boys standing by a table where they gut mackerel, behind them a small sailing boat, with rigging.

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 21

Feb 21

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 20 of #Februllage2025 #DadaistCollage - #Asemic Poster ~ Dive in -Complicated (Topic -Dive)

#DadaistCollageArt #CollageArt
#Art #Scanography
#DigitalArt #Dadaist #Collage
#Dada #Dadaism #AsemicWriting #Asemic #AsemicText #DeconstructedText
#AsemicArt

This scan-bed collage has been digitally modified to emphasize texture and colours. The main background is asemic text and writing, as is the border. The left corner - dolphins jumping out of the water. Right Corner - a young girl drawing a hopscotch pattern.
Centre image - a young woman wearing a wide black leather collar, looking straight up with knees bent to her chest.
Just to the lower left, a woman aims her camera downward at the word, complicated.
Bottom section - head of a seal diving into the water and an upside down image of a man kayaking in a rushing stream. Over top of these images is a young woman upside down - only upper chest head and outstretched arms in a dancer's pose are visible.

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 18

Feb 18

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 17 of #Februllage2025 #DadaistCollage - #Asemic Poster ~ Sweet Jelly Belly (Topic -Jelly)

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#Art #Scanography #CatsOfMastodon
#DigitalArt #Dadaist #Collage
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#AsemicArt

Top Left corner Text - Sweet Jelly Belly. Behind the cut-out text is asemic text. Top right corner is a woman's mouth with a cherry between her teeth. A woman holding is pointing a camera looking down at a bowl of red berry slushy and another mouth of a woman with a raspberry between her teeth. Right next to the woman with the camera is an eye looking upward.
In the bottom right corner is a woman with a black leather collar looking upward at the mouth with the raspberry. Next to her is a family munching on snacks as they watch a show. On the left just above them is a boxer in monochrome taking a punch to the jaw. The border of the poster is made-up of asemic writing and text.

**Carl Bettis** @caracabe@metapixl.com · Feb 17

Feb 17

Carl Bettis @caracabe@metapixl.com

#asemic #haiku

Three lines of purple, handwritten characters from an unknown writing system on a mottled yellow background. The first line has 3 characters; the second line has 4; and the third line has 3 characters, with a space between the 2nd and 3rd. Under these lines and to the right is a small group of squiggles that might be a signature.

#Haiku

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 13

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 12 *

Feb 12 *

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

Day 11 of #Februllage2025 #Stuck in the Past - #Dadaist #Collage - asemic poster

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#Art #Scanography
#DigitalArt #DadaistCollage
#Dada #Dadaism #AsemicWriting #Asemic
#AsemicText #DeconstructedText
#AsemicArt

A man holding a stack of floppy discs in one arm, and a ZIP drive in his right hand, is in front of a background of asemic writing and deconstructed text. The text below: Candy -Here is our 2020. Scanned collage has been digitally modified to enhance colours and textures. Theme - Stuck. Concept: Stuck in Time.

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 9

Feb 9

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

#DadaistCollage - Fear into The Places That Scare You _Horizon for #Februllage2025 day 9

#DadaistCollageArt #Collage #CollageArt #Februllage2025 #Collage #Art
#Scanography #DigitalArt #Dadaist #DadaistCollage #DadaistCollageArt #Dada #Dadaism #AsemicWriting #Asemic #AsemicText #DeconstructedText #AsemicArt

A digitally modified colour and texture of a scan-bed collage. Top left corner text - Fear into The Places That Scare You. Centre top is a body of a woman stretched out on the hood and windshield of a car, her legs pointed upward. Just below, where her head should be, is a small picture of a woman in a wheelchair next to a vehicle. The far right side is faded text. The bottom half is asemic writing and doodle marks on torn paper.

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 8

Feb 8

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

#Asemic #Postcards from Fractured Futures ~ Past Perfect Paradoxicals

Today, I saw this tree withering the eyes of an eagle – flippantly flesh-flora forelock for the first time. Ornithology shows that old trees exist in the present tense – tinsel tonsil tingles tangle pantheistical propagandist’s purloined paranormal mythopoeic mackerel. In the early days of democracy, democracy was weakened by nationalism – the upper floors looked clean and modern as an albatross’ labyrinth and banana toupee. Historically, this was driven by religious differences and oranges.

m̻̚̚ḙ̚̚d᷾̚̚e͚̚̚n͐̚̚ȉ̚̚y͊̚̚e̘̚̚t͉̚̚ s̍̚̚ı̰̚̚ȑ̚̚ b̶̚̚a̚̚ͅğ᷅̚̚ḷ̚̚ı̂̚̚ q͖̚̚a͉̚̚r̋̚̚t͊̚̚a̅̚̚l͌̚̚ L̼͎ͤe̼᷆͘ y̼͍ͬi̼͇ͩl̼͒̎ y̫̼̘á̧̼̌a͎̼͝n̼̠ͣa̤̼͒l̼̇̌ i͓̼̰n̼̉̐f̷̼᷃a̼̐ͬn̤̼ͫt̜̼͂i͉̼̩l̼̱͟ õ̼̮ǒ̼̚k̲̼͑ô̼᷄l̷͙̼ m͏̼̹e̢̺̼d͉̼ͭi̼ͤ̽o̱̼̣s̼̆̃ j̼̑́u̩̼̗m̗̼̉p̞̼ͤ’͖̼̯é̼ͨͅě̼̱l̼̦̆ l͔̼͙e̫̼͂ ȍ̼͋c̲̼ͣë̼́ͣs͎̼͏ l̼͘͞ȩ̖̼ i̼̹͠c̼͊̌ẖ̼᷀í̼᷿l̺̼̰ m̼ͯ̾á͓̼̔a̼̓͡n̼ͤ͞ ẹ̼ͪs̬̼̰c̼᷀͏á̼͛̄n̼̓᷉d̼͕́a̼̹ͩl᷿̼̍o᷿̼ͫ p̭̼̰r̼̀ͤo̼̅ͨm̗̼̔e̼᷉ͬd̡̼̟ì̺̼o̼͒͐.̼᷉͢ ó̼͟͡o̪̼͜l̶̼͒a̼͉͢l̺̼̘ m̳̼̓ạ̼́̓a̼̘᷅n̼̲̈́ ë̼́̄s̤̼ͫc̼ͧ̚á̼̠̐n̼̂̉d͚̼͋á̼̳l̵̮̼o̼᷅͝ ứ̼ ÿ̙̼é̼ͣͥe̼͆̏t̼̼᷄e̲̼͊l̖̼̃ j̼͖̈ū͕̼m̼͗͠p̼ͮ̑’̼̩͞é̼̽᷈e̸̼᷉l̼͋̐ u̙̼̥

https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/asemic-postcards-from-fractured-futures-past-perfect-paradoxicals/

Asemic Tarot · Feb 8Asemic Postcards from Fractured Futures ~ Past Perfect ParadoxicalsToday, I saw this tree withering the eyes of an eagle – flippantly flesh-flora forelock for the first time. Ornithology shows that old trees exist in the present tense – tinsel tonsil t…

**Of Bookish Things** @JPK_elmediat@c.im · Feb 8

Feb 8

Of Bookish Things @JPK_elmediat@c.im

#Asemic #Postcards from Fractured Futures ~ Past Perfect Particles

~in the fleshy mezzotint wombs limited several stimuli boils silent, makes scattered screameries, belted tragicomic hands déjà vu, rot inner owls, people these thinner spiritual things are found broken, people allow themselves flatulence, radicals regroup past prologues proletariat~ď͍͍h͍̰͍é͍͍̿a͍̩͍l͍͍᷇’͍͍̓o͍͖͍l͍̞͍ oink oil parsume legit~k͍̮͍o͍͍̽r͍͍᷀n͍͍᷅s͍͍͝s͍͍͟m͍̠͍͍͜ a͍͍͡ ~ in the open world, snowy, bastje ^’~ 6^~ď͍͍h͍̰͍é͍͍̿a͍̩͍n͍͍᷅s͍͍͝s͍͍͟m͍̠͍͍͜ a͍͍͡ Л͍҈͍о͍͍҆с͍҈͍н͍͍҃ s͍͍᷀e͍̮͍ l͍̤͍j͍͇͍e͍͈͍p͍̲͍o͍͍᷀t͍͍͛i͍̜͍?͍͍͢ K͍̺͍o͍͍͜i͍̬͍j͍͍̏ c͍᷿͍e͍͈͍n͍̤͍ā͍͍ д͍͍҇и͍͍҄а͍͍҇г͍͍҆р͍͍҄а͍͍҃м͍҈͍м͍҉͍а͍͍҄с͍͍҇н͍͍҇ д͍҉͍и͍͍҅а͍͍҃с͍͍҅н͍҈͍ s͍͍ͤm͍͈͍e͍͍᷁q͍̼͍n͍͍̿ũ͍͍î͍͍t͍͍̋s͍̩͍ q͍͍ͭn͍͏͍o͍͍̎y͍̦͍ m͍͍᷇e͍͍͞k͍͍͢o͍̼͍i͍͍ͭs͍͍͟ȃ͍͍n͍̤͍t͍͍ͯe͍̟͍i͍͍͘o͍͓͍i͍͍ͭs̛͍͍ȃ͍͍n͍͍̉j͍͍ͭi͍̫͍a͍̩͍g͍͍̓a͍͍̓n͍͍͝j͍͍ͤe͍᷊͍ c͍͍͊e͍͍᷃t͍᷿͍ l͍͍᷇’͍͍̓o͍͖͍l͍̞͍k͍̮͍o͍͍̽r͍͍᷀ r͍̳͍/~^e~ to be or knot too beans

#AsemicPostcard #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #Collage #Dada #DeconstructedText #CollageArt #Absurdist #DigitalArt #Art #ProsePoem #GlitchedText #ProsePoetry #AlternativeReality #SpeculativePoetry #Februllage2025 #Scanography
#Dadaist #Dadaism
https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/asemic-postcards-from-fractured-futures-past-perfect-particles/