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Category Archives: Text
Layers of Nourishment
I took this photo on the shore of Soap Lake, in the state of Washington. It is a mineral-rich lake which locals claim has healing properties. Good text has texture. With editing, it is polished, shiny as the rocks and … Continue reading
Text is just something that you write down, isn’t it?
Text is the careful placement of letters or symbols in order to convey a thought, a message, an intent and more. It is the collection of words, sentences, and paragraphs that describe, prescribe, and conscribe. While text is simply the … Continue reading
Text – changing communication
Others have already posted definitions and examples of various kinds of text, so I’ll come at it from a different perspective. I see text as a construct that has shifted and changed human communication in many ways. After beginning to … Continue reading
What is text and why is it so important to us?
For me text is a natural extension of our language. It was an inevitable step we took in our development along with other technologies, like tool making. The development of systems to save and repeat our spoken utterances, to make … Continue reading
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Text is a verb too
I went searching for a dictionary definition of text in use as a verb, and was surprised to not find anything listed in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. To me, using the word text as a verb (as in, … Continue reading
Power of Text
The Oxford English Dictionary defines text as “the wording of anything written or printed; the structure formed by words in their order; the very words, phrases and sentences written”. Based on this, I thought what better way to express my … Continue reading
Reviewing what we know
So listen to this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Diamond_Sutra This is an exerpt from the Diamond Sutra … Continue reading
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Text as communication
We use the word “text” in many forms from referring to a book for a course with copious amounts of information to referring to “text” as a message sent between individuals. I found these two SMS poems on a site … Continue reading
When we were to define what we thought text was I wrote that it was a string of morphemes. I soon found this definition to be very limited. Once I thought of what it means I came up with the … Continue reading
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Text – Iris
Text The text on a page, on a screen, on a rock, on the sand is always more than what it says. Energy to create text comes from an inner motivation to express Xin is the Chinese pinyin for heart … Continue reading
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