Wednesday, January 26, 2005


John R. Barlow: The Making of 11,12,13 issue of OVERSION Posted by Hello

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  1. Anonymous5:36 PM

    what you're looking at here is a
    photo of my desk in the spectacular
    front corner room of 1069 bathurst
    back around 95. the issue of oversion
    is probably the core one of the issue
    known as oversion 11,12,13. This
    issue, post Oversion 0 (the first
    ending of the magazine) was done in
    little batches over a period of time
    with the existing 11,12,13 being
    ongoingly shrunk and modified
    to make room for new incoming material,
    instead of sticking with the old
    issue, X, issue, X, issue, X, approach.
    Ultimately they'd come in great variance
    as the page ordering was done individ-
    ually for each copy. There were vert-
    ical and hor- izontal and some with
    some of each. It became like the
    permanent magazine. Nothing's
    permanent tho... and the room itself
    ancient history, like a paperbox
    strung on live streetcar wires
    with trucks as well bouncing the floors
    starting before the dawn and always,
    thus a room to be enjoyed as art,
    you will recognize some of the art
    on the walls, and some of the oceanliners passing in the window
    are also of this company. ~ John Barlow

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