Comments on: GEORGE IZZO LOONEY

GEORGE IZZO LOONEY

fungible — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:56:30 -0800

DieKus. Haikus made out of pictures of gravestones, being plastered around New York City by a mysterious artist named Nick Beef. (whose name has some mysterious origins of its own)

By: ba

ba — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:02:49 -0800

Neat! Everyone loves a mystery or two.

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:03:45 -0800

How mysterious! Good thing he put his name on it. Oh, wait, it's probably not his real name. And that link tells us exactly where "Nick Beef" came from, so not really mysterious there, either. I'm normally not one to snark, but "guy makes up fake name and posts stickers around town" isn't really BOTW.

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:04:32 -0800

However, if you'd done the Nick Beef gravestone post, along with other links to mysterious gravestones around the world, THAT would have been a fun FPP. There's still time!

By: Zephyrial

Zephyrial — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:16:10 -0800

Hmmm interesting. /me strokes chin Cool link!

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:20:26 -0800

Interesting stuff - thanks for the post.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:45:11 -0800

Davejay, stop marketing for your FFP tutorial software. "BODJW Gold Edition" is full enough of adware as it is.

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:45:39 -0800

Don't bother researching mysterious gravestones around the world. This is really much more interesting.

By: blaneyphoto

blaneyphoto — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:46:37 -0800

Gotta be on the lookout for these...

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:15:56 -0800

Deadline, NYC New York City Has Grave Misgivings About Rise In Zombie Haiku

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:22:51 -0800

These haiku are yet another awesome phenomenon about which, if davejay had his way, I never would have learned. Thank you for the post, fungible.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:32:30 -0800

These are cool. Thanks for the post.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:48:49 -0800

Neat, thanks.

By: anthill

anthill — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:14 -0800

The pyromaniac haiku stands on its on merits, gravestones or no. Davejay needs to step up, 1250 comments and no FPPs!

By: quin

quin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:25:39 -0800

For some reason I'm picturing this guy with hundreds of photos of grave stones, all cataloged and on file. And he uses them like those magnetic poetry things that you find on people's fridges. I have no idea why, but that is the image that popped in my head when I was looking at these. And I agree with anthill; The pyro haiku is pretty sweet.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:39:28 -0800

Awesome. But...can he do limericks?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:02:09 -0800

Lovely. This stuff is the future of art, imo. Nobody's getting paid again. Some of the haikus are obviously better than others and some are just clever/funny (warn eng), but excellent idea and good implementation. (Now cementing actual gravestones to the wal, THAT would be awesome!) It reminds me of a cool writing class I took in college called Generative Devices. Oulipo and whatnot. Very hit or miss, but also very cool. Thanks a lot for the link. I appreciate this stuff, and I don't need any supporting links. One link posts are often my favorites. I know how to use Google or Wikipedia if I want to learn more.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:12:13 -0800

Coming in late here -- but, heck, I have some nice photos of one of his works I took close to my office -- tombstones arranged in the form of a human body with names like Butt and Armstrong... Nice to hear more about it!

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:45:43 -0800

Thanks for posting this. I thought of this idea last fall while bicycling through a cemetery (just doing poetry, not specifically haiku), and I'm happy to learn that some people don't just think of things, they actually go and do them.