Scope and Contents

This book is the printed version of Goldsmith's retyping of one day of The New York Times. Goldsmith writes, "I am spending my 39th year practicing uncreativity. On Friday, September 1, 2000, I began retyping the day's New York Times, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner, page by page...When I reach 40, I hope to have cleaned myself of all creativity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This is the last of Kenneth Goldsmith's trilogy (The Weather, Traffic and Sports). It consists of Goldmith's parsing of the complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning major league baseball game on record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly reported the following. Conceptual artist, University of Pennsylvania instructor and WFMU radio host, Goldsmith has earned a great deal of attention for previous projects, among them Fidget (a real-time record of every motion he made in one day) and No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96 (a gorgeous 600-page cull of words ending in "r"). This elegant new volume continues his adventures in "extreme transcription": it consists entirely of radio weather forecasts, written down every day in the course of a year (2002--2003) and set as a book with no (or minimal) changes. Even the forecasters' hesitations and stutters show up in Goldsmith's text: "And what we have here tonight is, uh, brisk conditions under partly to mostly cloudy skies, uh, relatively mild, uh, temperatures, uh, staying above freezing all across the region tonight"; "well, we're continuing to watch snow sloat... spread slowly northward, uh, through New Jersey, uh, snowing around Trenton and, eh, Princeton...."...