Announcing issue #3 of nanomajority (www.nanomajority.com):

"Project Gutenberg by Vividness" by Richard Hasty

This project is a whimsical index to more than four thousand English
language texts in Project Gutenberg. The texts are arranged by the degree to which they contain vivid words, and the titles are displayed in colors according to the color values of the words they contain. The index keys are words which have also been ordered by vividness.

"convergence" by Bill Mieloch

With the explosion of user-created content online in the past few
years, and given that the audio-visual part of this content cannot
exist without some form of textual labeling, whether in the form of
actual file names or through individually or socially based tagging, I
have noticed the potential for our verbal and visual languages to
converge in this digital environment…. To explore this idea, I
performed simple, one-word queries of the image search section of the
three search engines most commonly used by English-speaking people,
Google, MSN and Yahoo. I then created line drawings of the highest
ranked images that resulted from these word searches. I combined these
words, and subsequent images, to create somewhat abstract phrases,
while trying to include a word in each phrase that would illustrate a
tangible object or idea.

"selections from 'limb by limb: the collected letters of dk'" by Della Watson

my dear e,

a breath's worth of space by the word, the world, it floods us, like
light through a window.

we rehearsed our hymns. beyond the cross, the shedding sycamores
stand, bone after bone.
_____ took hand into clamshell palms. catherine's toes found her shoes.

my longing walks beneath the bare branches. as sermon has turned our
eyes to signs, we should–__________–know by now.

yours,

d k