Here is a showcase of online features. These are in addition to the print edition of Infinity’s Kitchen. Here you’ll find multimedia, color, longer texts and other things that break out of the boundaries of paper.
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This is a comic by Dina Kelberman. She has other comics featured in the fourth issue of Infinity’s Kitchen. You can find more of her online antics at Important Comics and on the fashion blog that she co-authors, lloookk.
This cut-up comic combines contemporary mythology of superheroes comics with William Blake’s self-constructed cosmogony. The comic is a mashup of spiritual seeking and entertainment, both of which employ supernatural themes, although in drastically different ways.
Hidden within these texts are the instructions for making perfumes, and for advancing through the ascending levels of the brain puzzle game that they describe.
A video poem by Norman Ball. “After all the reader can’t ‘pore over’ a video as he would a written poem. For one thing, it’s moving, like time itself, from past to present to future. Immediacy, an irrevocable element of the form, obliges a surface or tactile relevancy which, I would hasten to add, need not be superficial.”
“The Boss” by Jim Meirose is a short story, told in a manner that resembles thoughts under duress, or paranoia. It depicts an obsessive internal dialogue, although most of its imagery is circuitous, petty conversation.
The contrapuntal poem, a form created by Herbert Woodward Martin, can be read as a single poem or two related poems in their distinct columns. It can be read backwards as one or two poems, or in a circular pattern, both clockwise and counterclockwise.
Written as though it were an entry in a dictionary or an encyclopedia, “Spiral” is a verbal improvisation around a theme that eventually spins in on itself.
Flarf is a type of avant-garde writing that uses search engines and other online material to make a literary pastiche. To create “Jazz Criticism Reconsidered,” the author found Foreign-language reviews of several jazz albums, and then translated and re-translated them among several languages using online translation software. The result is jazz-like, in the way the language is improvised around the meaning, the way jazz improvises around a melody.
Now, the third issue of infinity’s kitchen has been printed and you’re in for a treat. This issue is about objects, physical ones, like boats, remote controls and prefabricated furniture.
Bryan Prindiville was known for drawing cute and fuzzy animals. Then one day he snapped. A broken muzzle was the result. Updates weekly on Mondays. You can find more of Bryan’s work at bryanprindiville.com.
The work of Phil Davis, video artist. What a surprise! Two videos are featured here, “Cord” and “Building Blocks”, along with the artist’s commentary.
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