Thanks to Stacey and the BAP blog for the chance to be this week's guest blogger. I thought I'd use this space and time to suggest some writing assignments and invite you to post your responses on your own blogs, letting us all know about it via trackback or in the comments
— Shannon (no relation) Holman
I'm just back from a week spent on the former campus of Black Mountain College, so today's assignment will feature some of those giant ghosts.
See how many of these prompts you can respond to in a single piece:
- John Cage appeared on at least two game shows, appearing twice on I've Got a Secret and five times on the Italian show "Lascia o Raddoppia," where he won 5 million lire answering questions about mushrooms. On what game or reality show will you appear, revealing which secret or talent?
- Hilda Morley is one overlooked Black Mountain poet. You are another.
- Buckminster Fuller: "Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." Discuss.
- The dyslexic are your intended audience.
- "…to open eyes…" —Josef Albers