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WHY YES! It's true:
Urban Ghosts Media wrote a very intriguing article about The Afterwords ArcHive and Fall Apart Park! As their whole website is interesting, I would check it out if I were you . . .
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The Afterwords Archive: Un-Ruining The World's Abandonments; Publishing Works of Dynamic Adaptive Re-Use.
Afterwords' unique niche seeks to reinvent our abandoned buildings and spaces by way of dynamic, creative, sustainable designs. Through creative fiction, non-fiction, journalism, photo-essays, blueprinting, mapping, etc., Afterwords aims to be a major player as opportunities to reshape our environment continue to arise; help us celebrate, resuscitate, and exponentiate our forsaken spaces!
And, our books won't be your standard-issue, mill-runners:
many of our products will feature creative re-use of found/dumpster'd/harvested materials; their bindings will be bound with homemade tapioca-glue . . .
Help Afterwords publish its first book: 'Fall Apart Park'!
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For more information on innovative responses to abandoned buildings:
I have begun assembling an abandoned page at appropedia.
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- 'Sustainability', 'recycling', and 'green' have become mainstream buzzwords. Thankfully, because understanding these concepts are fundamental for our survival on this planet; however, they remain basic, insufficient, and lame (e.g. changing lightbulbs, etc.). Fall_Apart_Park_ is positioned as an exploration of these critical concepts; this book is a showcase, designed to demonstrate the depth and the layers: to open these words, examine their organs and functions, and enrich their potential. You want this novel to exist, so that we can approach -and extend- the limits of what is possible.
- This novel is foundational. Upon it, concepts like 'free-cities', 'repurposing abandoned buildings & cities', 'modern secession movements', and 'open-source governments' will take root.
- And, not to mention: because these backer rewards are awesome.
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Advance Praise for Fall_Apart_Park_:
" Your language, as usual, thrills me. "
" It breaks away from convention and invites imagination. "
" Hahhh shitgoggles! This reads somethang fangtastic. Digging it big time. "
" I felt that I was reading Ulysses again, but this time the writer had a deep love and care for his reader. "
" It gives me a weird and compelling Lewis Carrol meets William Boroughs vibe. Tripped out and yet still driving a clear message. "
" Fall_Apart_Park_ takes language, organization, visual layout, language structure, and every conceivable device included in the convention of books and re-thinks the ways in which they can be used. "
" Jubilant... f*ck roar! "
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Since it will be freely available as a dwnld online via creative commons, every single person/you can download it at a risk-free hat-drop.
In the meantime, Chapters 1, 15, & 27 are currently available!
Expect more releases over the coming weeks.
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Dear Backers:
Prepare to be revived, rectified, renude, resurged, and Renaissance'd.
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Dear Everyone:
A bazillion thanks for your support and energy -
Gregory Crawford
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