Waiting for the barrel to explode
Even though they’re pretty silly, I’ve been kind of obsessed with QR codes recently. I wanted to put the entire unformatted text of Artifice 4 into a QR code, but it turns out that they can’t hold that many letters.
Then for a while I was thinking about having stickers made of pieces from Artifice 4 in QR code, but it seemed like they were really trendy, in an already-jumped-the-shark way, I guess? Also, most of the QR codes I see now are ads for really douchey things, like colognes and men’s hair product.
Anyway, I went ahead and made QR codes for a couple of pieces from Artifice 4. Here they are.
Dan Brady, “from Sonnets to E—”
Marc McKee, “& What Shoulder, & What Art”
Joslyn Persh, “ships are not the only things in the sea”
I’m still kind of thinking about starting a side project journal that would be an entire journal on a QR code. QR codes can hold around 4000 characters, which works out to maybe 400 words? So very short pieces, max 40 words each.
I have another side project journal already started, which you can find out about here.
