1. What I Got Done

• Still more reading. Finished The Gutenberg Elegies and also devoured essays by Walter Murch and Richard Foreman. Two very interesting perspectives on the role of imagination in experiencing media. Found George Steiner a bit tedious (basphemy?) and Goffman's book on public spaces doesn't seem to be entirely relevant at the moment.

• I can now cut and perforate with ease. But no luck in finding gummed paper.

• I ordered a Dymo LabelMaker so that I will be able to print linear text from my PC. Got permission from Rob Ryan to release liberated text into ITP.

• Did some deep thinking about potentially rewarding, small projects.

2. What I Am Going to Do

• Meet with my bookmaking contact tomorrow afternoon about the feasability of building my own liberated book.

• Keep reading.

• Keep talking to Nat about installing a story in Cooper Square.

• Find out who is the key person for the scaffolding that lines NYU buildings. I think it would be neat to get permission for a project that involves scaffolds, since they are so ubiquitous; it would also be good to be sanctioned, rather than surreptitious.

• Once the label printer arrives, print out the text of a story (Alice in Wonderland?) and install on the floor. Perhaps the opening chapter could revolve down one of the large poles in the lounge?

3. Unexpected Problems; Outstanding Risk

• The label tape might be very expensive.

• Perforating in two dimensions.

4. Insights / Surprises (including interesting questions)

• Why do we tune out "Poetry in Motion" (or, less bluntly) why is it less effective than it could be? Becuase it is in the form of advertising and as such is subject to the same diffidence we assign to sales pitches?

• Images annotating space.

• Writing on desks: banned not only because of destructive aspect, but also because it inspires a sort of dream-world?

• How are spaces similar to texts? (in the ways in which imagination annotates inscribed media experience)

• (Sort of) example of resonant text: restaurant reviews posted in windows.