THE FISHERY: a diary of the Loose-Fish Project

This month, Good Magazine has a profile of the notorious Sean Bonner and the Metblogs network.  As a part of the piece, they’ve done a small sidebar and link to the Spoon River Metblog.

Thanks to Sean and to Alissa, who wrote the piece.

We’ve got a new Facebook group for The Loose-Fish Project. Please join us.

And I’m exprimenting with Twitterfeed to automatically announce when new Spoon River entries are added.

The second Loose-Fish Project story is now live.  “The Spoon River Metblog” is an adaptation of Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.

Read the story here.

Read more about the project here.

Now available from Lulu Publishers, a paperback edition of The Good Captain.  All the transmedia, net-native fun you expect from a Loose-Fish Project, now available in an old-school, dead-tree package!

Ripples are starting to show on the surface of the water.  The Fish is getting ready to breach once more.  So keep your eyes on this space for updates in the very near future.

After four months (!) The Good Captain finally concluded tonight.  It’s been a fascinating journey, and it leaves me totally pumped for the next one.  You can find the story archived on this site, by clicking any of the Good Captain links.  They’ll lead to this page. Now, it’s time to start my presentation for BarcampLA5, which begins tomorrow. A perfect bookend.  Perhaps this will become a habit, launching and closing at BarCamp.  So the Loose-Fish will turn its attention away from the world of Melville (although not forever - there’s still a big whale waiting out there.  It tasks me.  It heaps me,) and enter the fascinating domain of America’s second most successful poet of all time, the complex, flawed and utterly human Edgar Lee Masters.  Spoon River, here we come.  

The Electronic Literature Organization’s 2008 conference, Visionary Landscapes, has selected “The Good Captain” to appear in its Media Arts Show, May 29-June 1.

This is the serial number to Mike’s Kindle:

Those Artificials are everywhere.

I found out today that “The Good Captain” has been invited to be exhibited at the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008, as an Artist’s Presentation.
The ISEA is a biannual conference devoted to academic and artistic developments in digital and interactive media.  The previous conference was held in San Jose in 2006, and here are some of the people who participated.

I’m honored and somewhat staggered to be included in such company.  Now I just have to figure out if I can get to Singapore in July.

A happy New Year to you all.

While this space has been quiet, things behind the scenes at the Fishery continue at a brisk pace.

The Good Captain continues along, and I’ve gotten some lovely feedback from some readers.  I encourage you to post your reactions, plaudits, brickbats and queries on the Comment Thread.

While the intrepid Captain Lockham continues to plumb the mysteries of Captain Dziga’s ship, I’ve been immersing myself in work for our second project.  Spoon River Anthology is a book that most people know only though high-school reading assignments.  But as I’ve delved deeper into the work, I’m finding it to be an incredible rich, profound, heartbreaking, funny and profane piece of work.  My adaptation concept has changed about a half-dozen times as I pass through more and more layers of this complex world created by the fascinating E.L. Masters.

One invaluable resources has been the great Definitive Online Edition of Spoon River Anthology, assembled by Paul Houle. Go over there and check it out - you’ll find some of my comments.

After Spoon River, there are two more projects I’m laying groundwork for.  More detail as they get closer to fruition.

We’re aiming to make 2008 a year of exciting and challenging stories.  Stay tuned for much more.