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New Release, November 2008, Premiere issue of Pilcrow Graphic Design and Art Journal... see below Ray Ogar's works are perhaps best enjoyed by readers of Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Z. Danielewski, Peter Watts and William Gibson: this is intelligent, poetic post-cyberpunk interwoven with dark technology and adventure.
The books featured here are from his series of parallel novels collectively called “The Sickly Suite”. Each book can be read individually, out of order or in sequence.
(1) techno
(2) ~ (aka Swung Dash)
(3) Plus Ultra
(4) Origami Unicorn
Ray Ogar is a graphic designer educator as well as lecturer on the impact of technology on communication. Ray Ogar has published essays, music and fiction in Black Ice, Degenerative Prose, FreePressHouston, RhymeTorrents (recently featured in Wired), and AIGA Houston's "The Channel".
Google him to find out more.
visit rayogar.com
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Print: $9.00 Download: FREE A few minutes from now Internet search engines will be made from junk DNA. The girl next door will sell her insides to local gene farms and Big Brother will be a million-headed serpent made from microscopic wormholes. Some people will sell themselves for memory upgrades. Hustlers will swap data hacks like housewives trade recipes. Pranksters will use nanomachines to turn buildings inside out. Artificial Intelligence will be so primitive it must experiment on humans to understand itself. Spellcheckers will be programmers that alter another’s gender through gene sequence modification. Cloning will be so imprecise that the duplicates wonder if they are too individual for government work. And one young man will discover one hundred twenty-six bad copies of himself that all seek to be the original.
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Print: $8.00 Download: FREE As a design researcher deciphers strange messages received on his cellphone he soon understands the messages to be from some future version of himself. The images of tomorrow he decodes suggest a world dominated by a semi-sentient Google.com and its ever increasing desire to simulate reality.
The book includes: excerpts from the text messages, several essays on how mobile technology affects language and social interaction, a speculative glossary of terms used in the narrator's world, as well as a bibliography to support the researcher's assertions about the text messages.
Written, designed and researched by Ray Ogar.
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Print: $8.50 Download: FREE today.
walking through the city.
any city.
life is modular.
mix and match friends.
cellphones.
disposable computers.
bored kids creating self tailored disorders.
finally, sexuality is not an issue.
besides it’s a currency in itself.
accelerating technology.
and music.
and raves.
and DJs.
girls who study the history of the UNITED STATES through all of its 2am parties.
guys who try to forget life from day-to-day and unknowingly sell their memories on the emotional black market.
shopping is a lifestyle.
design is a nation.
nanotechnology in the hands of the young.
some checkout mainframe computers from the local library.
others obsess over new versions of the UNITED STATES that upload daily across the internet.
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Download: FREE Hardcover Print: $50.00 An event known as the Reformat changes the face of Earth. What is left of the Oldest Internet ossifies into glassy shells left along every beach. The cloned remains of humanity live in nomad social networks called Google clans. One clone, Aedl, proceeds to investigate a series of Artifacts made of pure information lying along the Texas coastline.
It is three months before the event called the Reformat. A virtual farmer named Cikly asks his friend Dale to steal a copy of a book called _The House of Leaves_. Dale reluctantly searches for the book, and instead obsessively blogs about his belief that he exists in a waking coma. Soon, under the pretense of their combined obsession, Dale and Cikly begin a road-trip in search of the enigmatic book. By journey's end what they find redefines themselves and their place in reality.
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Print: $8.00 a juried graphic design and art journal... all artists are given a series of images to either incorporate in the work they submit and/or respond to; we juror the submitted work and then create the journal from the best entries... email us if you would like to contribute to receive the image-toolbox for the next issue
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