Reviving my Multimedia Quartet

See the public view of my Facebook photo album devoted to RECYCLED MEMORIES: A MULTIMEDIA QUARTET:

Arella's Repertoire (novel)

Vagabond Scribe (Leah's Backstory) (experimental fiction)

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary" (multimedia essay)

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories ("blook" based on this blog)

From Blog to Blook to E-Book: Reading VirtualDayz on Amazon’s Kindle 2

Now that Amazon’s Kindle 2 will soon be released (on Feb. 24), I wonder whether demand for the Kindle version of my book VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories will increase. The paperback version of that book—which is based on entries I wrote in this blog from June 2005 to July 2006—is also available on Amazon.com. (In addition, the text can be downloaded from my storefront on Lulu.com.)

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary," an artist’s book I published, is also available on Amazon.com as a paperback. Because that text includes color reproductions, I haven’t formatted it for the Kindle, since the e-book reader handles only black and white images. A digital version with color images can be downloaded from my Lulu storefront.

I like experimenting with various media to transform texts, a process that Video-Graphic Alchemy documents: my childhood diary becomes the basis for a computer graphics series which becomes a video art production which becomes a literary experiment which becomes a novel which becomes ??? The process continues as I explore new possibilities.

(Along with VirtualDayz and Video-Graphic Alchemy, the literary experiment, Vagabond Scribe (Leah’s Backstory), and the novel, Arella’s Repertoire, form Recycled Memories: A Multimedia Quartet. That DVD and paperback versions of the fiction are available upon request while I look for a new publisher.)

P.S. I would welcome feedback about the way VirtualDayz looks on either version of the Kindle.

VirtualDayz Transformed Once Again

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories, the “blook” based on my blog, is now available on Amazon.com. The “search inside” feature should be activated soon. I may format the text for the Kindle, Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Transformations of my work continue.

Technorati tags: blook, blog, autobiography, cultural memory, personal memory, diary, digital art, new media, multimedia, video art, writing, e-literature, archives, performance

VirtualDayz: The “Blook”

I’ve finished editing the second edition of VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories, the fourth book in the collection I’m calling Recycled Memories: A Multimedia Quartet. All four books are now showcased on the same site. Visit my storefront to preview the books and to buy copies. VirtualDayz (and the other nonfictional text, Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming “Dear Diary”) can also be downloaded. The two works of fiction, Arella’s Repertoire and Vagabond Scribe (Leah’s Backstory), are available only as hard copies.

This experiment with alternative book publishing has been extremely gratifying. During the past several months, I’ve not only edited all four manuscripts and formatted them for publication (with interior graphics), but I’ve also designed the covers and the marketing materials. I’m delighted that these unconventional, hybrid texts have been published after all. I hope to transform them further using other media – and to create at least one sequel to Arella’s Repertoire, the novel. (There is already a prequel of sorts, Vagabond Scribe.)

On some level, all four of the texts in this quartet resonate with one another and invite a reading greater than the sum of the parts. I’d welcome your comments.

Technorati tags: blooks, multimedia, publishing, print-on-demand

A Writer’s Showcase: My Quartet

Arella’s Repertoire

Vagabond Scribe (Leah’s Backstory)

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming “Dear Diary"

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories