http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Bok Posts tagged with 'Bok' at MetaFilter. Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:16:10 -0800 Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:16:10 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/34489/Writing%2Dis%2Dinhibiting%2DSighing%2DI%2Dsit%2Dscribbling%2Din%2Dink%2Dthis%2Dpidgin%2Dscript <a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/e.html">E</a><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/u.html">u</a>n<a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/o.html">o</a><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/i.html">i</a><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/a.html">a</a> ("beautiful thinking") is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five vowels. It is also the title of a <a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/text.html">poetry collection</a> by Canadian author Christian Bok. In addition to writing each chapter using only words that contain one vowel, (<a href="http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/preview.html">Flash presentation of Chapter "E"</a>) Bok also <a href="http://www.eddigest.com/html/CBok.html">greatly limits himself in other ways</a>. An amazing accomplishment that won the $40 000 Griffith Poetry Prize in 2002, <a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia_6-2-02/03-Chapter-E.mp3">E</a><a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia_6-2-02/06-Chapter-U.mp3">u</a>n<a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia_6-2-02/05-Chapter-O.mp3">o</a><a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia_6-2-02/04-Chapter-I.mp3">i</a><a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bok/Eunoia_6-2-02/02-Chapter-A.mp3">a</a> is best experienced in its spoken form. (<a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/bok.html">MP3 links</a>) <em>(If you don't know Bok's poetry, you still might know his other work. He has also created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry's <em>Earth: Final Conflict</em> and Peter Benchley's <em>Amazon</em>.)</em> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34489 Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:16:10 -0800 Bok brokenlink Canada ChristianBok Eunoia mp3 poems poet poetry vowels Jaybo http://www.metafilter.com/29083/Extremist%2DMakeover <a href="http://www.nypress.com/16/42/news&amp;columns/cage.cfm">Matt Taibbi checks in</a> with 'Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of the United States (Putnam, 2037), William Shirer IV. From the chapter entitled, "The Anschluss Begins."' Typically clever stuff, especially the Franzen bit. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29083 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:17:59 -0800 bok bookreview matttaibbi nypress realityshow realitytelevision realitytv GriffX http://www.metafilter.com/21037/ <a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~rdgarr/00Galleries/bok-gallery/wheelsofif.jpg">Hannes</a> <a href="http://www.raresf.com/bokdinosaurs1.jpg" title="BOK, HANNES (American Artist). Dinosaurs with Mayan Statue 1934 Painting Fine (our Top grade)/Frame Fine (our Top grade). Original Art, Framed, Signed By Artist. Original gouache (?) on board. Depicts two dinosaurs walking in front of a Mayan-like statue in a jungle. A charming color piece by one of the great names in science fiction and fantasy art. SIGNED, like most of his early work, ''Hans Bok'' and dated 1934 in lower right-hand corner. Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Framed under glass with linen mat and gilt frame. Frame size: 22 x 26 inches. Painting and frame both fine (our highest grade). $9500.00 ">Bok</a> - <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ct/lulu/index.html" title="Illustration for Conquest of the Moon Pool by A. Merritt. 1948">Virgil</a> <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ct/lulu/indexD.html" title="Illustration for The Hobbitt by J. R. R. Tolkien. 1964">Finlay</a> were the premier illustrators of fantasy and science fiction for the first three quarters of the XXth Century. <a href="http://www.pandorasbox.com/petaja/bok.html" title="Hannes Bok was a man of many accomplishments - he was an artist, magazine illustrator, author, and astrologer. His work graced the cover of many early pulp fiction magazines, such as Weird Tales, Super Science Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries. All together, he painted almost 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy and detective magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's works also graced early fanzines, calendars, as well as dustjackets from specialty book publishers such as Arkham House, Shasta, Llewellyn and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. He was the first artist to win a Hugo Award.">Bok</a> was influenced in both <a href="http://www.eburg.com/~poetic/bok15.jpg" title="Cover illustration for ''A Rose For Ecclesiastes'' by Roger Zelazny, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1963 , ">technique</a> and <a href="http://www.home.ch/~spaw3964/image/dragon/hannes-bok/0uro3_0194__hannes_bok.jpg" title="Illustration for Terminal Quest - Hannes Bok - 1951">theme</a> through correspondence and visits with <a href="http://tigtail.org/M_View/TVM/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/parrish/M/parrish_reveries.1913.jpg" title="Reverie - Maxfield Parrish, 1913">Maxfield</a> <a href="http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/parrish/parris24.jpg" title="The Reluctant Dragon - Maxfield Parrish, 1900-01">Parrish</a>. Finlay learned <a href="http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/finlay.htm" title="Scratchboard today is artboard with a white clay coating covered in black ink that can be scratched away with a scribe or knife or other sharp instrument to reveal a white line. It is often used to simulate a wood engraving. When Finlay started using it in the early thirties, the black was applied by the artist. That is, scratchboard was white. Black ink was applied to the surface and after it was dry, it was scraped off by the artist. This is called ''working from black to white'' and is just the opposite of putting a black ink line on a white sheet of paper. Finlay chose to use both techniques on the same drawing: filling areas with black so that he could scratch through to the white to achieve a specific tone of gray and also creating his middle tones and grays with hatching and stippling in black ink on the white surface. --And how he could stipple. Finlay's stippling ability almost lost him the job as Wright was uncertain that such fine dots would reproduce on the cheap pulp paper. Fortunately a test print proved acceptable. Enough of the detail remained to provide the readers with the rare experience of seeing a new artistic genius explode fully developed onto the scene. He had four illustrations in that issue. It was December of 1935. Finlay was 21.">scratch board, hatching and stippling</a> in high school and began his career by sending six unsolicited drawings to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of <a href="http://members.aol.com/weirdtales/" title="''In 1923, J.C. Henneberger began Weird Tales--The Unique Magazine. Throughout its 30-year history, the obscure pulp published some of the most outré fiction ever issued. The stories were odd, macabre, and completely unique. Weird Tales existed in a void, and the stories published therein reached pinnacles of strangeness never equalled.''"><i>Weird</i></a> <a href="http://members.aol.com/weirdtales/artists.htm#artists" title="Cover gallery with, among others, examples by Bok and Finlay in juxtaposition."><i>Tales</i></a>, and becoming an immediate hit with readers and <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ct/indexxs/indexf3.html" title="''I've recently come into touch with Finlay, & find him a most unusual & brilliant character. He's only 22, & a resident of his native city of Rochester, N.Y. He is a poet of no mean attainments as well as an artist--though of course pictorial art is his primary medium. In future years I feel certain that he will become an artist of distinction, so that the WT group will feel very proud of having known him in his youth.... All of Finlay's WT work is good--especially the designs for your Lost Paradise & Bloch's Faceless God. Bloch tells me that Wright considers the latter the finest illustration ever drawn for WT, & that the original hangs framed in the office.'' - H. P. Lovecraft writing to Catherine L. Moore, mid-October 1936.">writers</a> alike. The two primary online collections of Bok are <a href="http://www.eburg.com/~poetic/poetichb.htm" title="Small jpegs from the book ''A Hannes Bok Treasury'' Published by Underwood-Miller"><i>The Art Work of Hannes Bok</i></a>, from <a href="http://www.eburg.com/~poetic/poeticpgn.htm" title="All opinions on these pages are mine, with the exception of the comments submitted to my Guest Book by visitors. I would like to make it clear that I AM NOT A SATANIST, nor Satanic, evil, possesed by the devil, etc..! In order to be any of those things, I would have to believe in/acknowledge the Christian Satan/Devil and its counterpart the Christian God, and/or a Christian compatible set of beliefs similar to ''light vs. dark'', ''good vs. evil'', ''heaven over hell'', which I do not! And I quote '' The image of the Horned God [in Witchcraft] was deliberately perverted by the midieval Church into the image of the Christian Devil. Witches do not believe in or worship the Devil--they consider it a concept peculiar to Christianity.'' The Spiral Dance by Starhawk, pg.108. Everybody is entitled to their own beliefs and to have them respected."><i>Poetic's Pagan Pages</i></a>, and this Hannes Bok <a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~rdgarr/00Galleries/bok-gallery/bok-gal.html" title="''Click on thumbnail for larger view. This is, of course, not complete.''--sadly true...">cover gallery</a> from from<a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~rdgarr/index.html" title="''A personal view of science fiction, fantasy and comic art.''"> <i>Richard Garrison's Art of the Fantastic</i></a>. Finlay is more well represented, with these <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ct/lulu/contents.html" title="Illustration Art: Virgil Finlay~Table of Contents~">two </a><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ct/indexxs/indexA1.html" title="Virgil Finlay - Illustrated">galleries</a>, provided by one <i>indexxs</i>, being the treasure trove......... <small><small><small>--Step within the tent for the rest of Dr. Lao's presentation...</small></small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21037 Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:16:33 -0800 Bok Finlay y2karl