One idea just off the top of my head (i havent slept much) is maybe if
we could get a publisher to take some risks and perhaps include
sections of transparent or clear pages. that way you could have printed
perl code (or whatever) on a bunch of repeating pages to show how it
changes over each iteration...
On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Adrian Ward wrote:
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> On 28 Aug 2006, at 02:46, Andrew Brown wrote:
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>> On 28/08/2006, at 6:51 AM, douglas edric stanley wrote:
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>>> There was a very inspiring book a few years back by Friends of Ed
>>> called 4x4 Generative Design. Many a student wore the binding down
>>> on that one until it was just leaflets. You probably all know of it
>>> as Adrian Ward was one of the authors, (...)
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>> I think Friends of Ed would be a good publisher to approach. (...)
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> Yeah, Friends of Ed. Heh. They went bust. I don't think it was my
> fault. Anyway, they defaulted on the royalties.
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> Well, count me in if a book looks likely. Happy to contribute both
> content and editorial effort, and I do think it'd be worth it if we
> can think of an inspirational way to get round the 'a book is not a
> performance' hiccup. The 4x4 approach was fun because it broke the
> publisher's instructional expectations, instead it turned out to be
> speculative and a bit vague, verging on becoming a call for action.
> Combining technical gore with radical rhetoric is definitely a winning
> formula.
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> Ade
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