First oubapo-america
meeting
Jason Little's house
Thursday August 2, 2001
7-11PM
in attendance: Tom
Hart, Jason Little, Matt Madden, and (at the very beginning) Myla Goldberg
Agenda:
- Discuss official unveiling of webpage and e-mail discussion group
- choose name for web site
- talk about funding
and organizational possiblities
- Decide on a first
constraint for general invitation
- proposal of other
constraints
- browsing of Oubapo
and Oulipo literature, and various old comics
- Pernod, white wine, basil-infused vodka disguised as Jim Beam
Eats:
- babaganoush
- pita bread
- Sour creme
- salsa
- tortilla chips
- Entenmann's soft-bake chocolate chip cookies
Gallery:
Our gracious host
Matt and Tom discuss ...?
Taking the minutes on Tom's device
Said Pernod (see minutes)
SOME OUBAPO LINKS:
Links in English:
MAP>OULIPO
Site about connecting the arts and sciences.
Matt Madden's Exercises in Style
OUBAPO - AMERICA MESSAGE BOARD
Links in French:
place selling Oubapo book#1. offers brief description
Links to other experimental comics sites:
Lewis Trondheim's random gag generator
Scott McCloud, the one-man comics idea factory
USS Catastrophe has, among other cool items, an ongoing add-a-panel jam comic
Two English language links mimicing Raymond Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Poems:
http://www.wordengineering.net/ticker2.html