"New-Method" No. 9
We introduce the email bulletin "New-Method" No. 9 with our works and
guest contributions. This issue features Enju Tanaka for the
contributor, a poet who had written poetry reviews "Tanka Jihyo"
regularly on Asahi up until this April.
[Contribution]
DO ACCURATE
Enju Tanaka (Poet)
What I find interesting about Shogo Baba is, for instance, his "why is
it not art" series. I think works like "why is it not art to
water the floor?" or "why is it not art to stand a corn upside down"
are masterpieces among others. Still, the video "why is it not
art to throw a canned coffee?," should have been titled properly "why
is it not art to throw a canned coffee {six times,}" and "why is it not
art to use a vinyl umbrella" should have been "why is it not art to
{unfold and fold} a vinyl umbrella {three times.}" I want him to state
"why is it not art" ACCURATEly.
What I find interesting about Takahiro Hirama is, for instance, his use
of phrases like "divide it into halves" or "no repeat allowed." "Divide
it into halves" can be paraphrased into "halve it" or "make it half,"
and "no repeat allowed" could be more mathematically expressed as
"exclude further repetition." I approve his linguistic preference to
those "soft" expressions. Still, at his performance of Method
Music and Method Poem some days ago, I found it disappointing that he
could not fully manage to present these two as being totally different
despite being completely identical. I want him to be Takahiro
Hirama using soft language while acting ACCURATEly.
What I find interesting about Hideki Nakazawa is, for instance, his
extraordinary taste of wordplay. I have once been together with
him in a car heading for Yokohama from Nagoya during night, where I
experienced ceaseless onslaughts of his wordplay. I understand it
as his talent as an entertainer and also as an expression of his
ACCURATE interest in the language. His works are, perhaps,
ACCURATE too (here no referring to specific works, and even adding
"perhaps" to "ACCURATE," which may suggest the lack of ACCURACY, not of
Nakazawa but mine).
Now you see I am gradually losing ACCURACY so much that I am a tanka poet.
(Tanka is a form of traditional Japanese verse which follows 5-7-5-7-7 metrical rhythm).
[Web Works of the New-Methodicists]
- Takahiro Hirama
work
http://hrmtkhr.web.fc2.com/new-method/009_e.html
A work is created by its author. Then a title is given to the
work. Herein, a work is gifted twice with the chance of creation.
- Shogo Baba
Ascending Order Sort No. 1 "Bubble Sort"
http://7x7whitebell.net/new-method/shogobaba/009_e.html
There are a lot of methods in numerical sequence permutation, i.e.,
"sort" in the computer field. When there are a lot of methods all
applicable to solve a single problem, and when encompassing the whole
possibilities is preferred to detecting the optimal one, it is to say
that it aims at these methods themselves. This work represents
ascending order by "Bubble Sort."
- Hideki Nakazawa
Source and Execution No. 51 - 55
http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/newmethod/b09/e.html
Adjoining cells in the table of HTML can be spanned into one, with
their topological consistency being under questions. For
instance, after 9 cells have been arranged into the shape of 3x3 (No.
51), you can rearrange it into 8 cells (No. 52) by spanning only one
place. On the other hand, it is no longer 3x3 but 1x1 if you
rearrange it into 1 cell by spanning all the places. You can keep
the shape of 3x3 as long as it contains either of 7 cells (No. 53), 6
cells (No. 54) or 5 cells (No. 55). As a side note, No. 54 is a
part of No. 13, and No. 55 is of No. 12.
[Information]
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- Takahiro Hirama has updated his website. http://hrmtkhr.web.fc2.com/
- Shogo Baba has updated his website. http://7x7whitebell.net/
- Hideki Nakazawa has updated his website. http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/
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[Editor's Note]
I love "why is it not art to throw a canned coffee?" a lot. (cf.)
Shogo Baba "why is it not art"
http://7x7whitebell.net/ideogram/why.html (You can see "why is it not
art to throw a canned coffee?" from second URL in this page.) (Kaido)
Publisher
Takahiro Hirama @qwertyu1357
Shogo Baba @shogobaba
Hideki Nakazawa @nakaZAWAHIDEKI
Editor
Masaru Kaido @kaido1900
Bulletin "New-Method" No. 9 English Version
Published on Jun. 4, 2011