CNTRL + Z[ine] #3 by ctrl+z[ine]

no.3 [sep-dec 2017]

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a compendium of narratives

What is this? The usual, even more images and even more stories.

Poem of the Self-Driving Car - 3 - Laura Fox Report on A1001- 5 - John Nguyen, Stephen Baik, Abubakr Bajman and Anthony Yoshida Toronto Gondola System - 7 - Linnea Coveney Fable - 9 - Josh Silver Constructor - 11 - Avi Odenheimer Atriums in Motion: The Album - 13 - Siri Hermanski The Revels - 15 - Oussama El Assir Aviomancy - 17 - Melanie Viger The Liberation of Bread - 19 - Ladan Toudeshki

Laura Fox

Poem of the Self-Driving Car

/ Distance one-half one/ Four to an edge/ Six to an edge again/ This edge is nine, horizontal truss?/ . That goes three/ Thirteen at some angle, flatness and surface solid/ . That goes three/ Nineteen at some angle, flatness and surface and striation, glazing solid/ . That goes five, across/ An extension of twenty-five reaches zed at forty-five and ninety off centre, four more completes/ Reaching eleven to a motion motive/ . One/ Reaching eleven to a motion motive / . Four to the edge/ Off eight in soft blurring forward/ . That goes five, across/ One/ . Six to an edge again/

Report on A1001

John Nguyen, Stephen Baik, Abubakr Bajman and Anthony Yoshida

Report on A1001

“…Below is an excerpt for a message retrieved from artifact A1001, the first interstellar object. We believe this message is a direct attempt to communicate with Earth after much research concerning our language; moreover, it acts as proof of alien visitation to Earth. A transcript is as follows after which will be a short preliminary analysis: Alien 1: All isn’t but do-gooders, housecoats got nothing on you! Alien 2: All cried, ‘the timpanist!’ A1: All isn’t… isn’t…. And they caught fringe minicabs never know of racetracks. Well, you… you –-A2: High-classed said they! Was well for you! A1: All just lifespans that well was… A2: But high-classed said they! Was well for you. A1: Again, just lifespans that well was… This is, most obviously, a declaration of war on the citizens of Earth. The first sentence outlines the aliens’ (known to themselves as “housecoats”) boast of superiority, then cheer of their leader’s name, “The Timpanist.” Their laughing cadence of trickery as they reveal hidden sensors implanted in minicabs at such races as the Indy 500, NASCAR and horse-racing necessitates a response! We cannot let the Housecoats win!...”

Linnea Coveney

Toronto Gondola System

The newly completed Toronto Gondola System (TGS) is an extensive system interconnecting every tourist destination in the city. If, say, a couple on their summer vacation wish to visit both the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Island and MOCA on the same day, they need only hop on the TGS and be swiftly off. They will be treated to incomparable views of the city as they cruise above the tallest skyscrapers in their gondola one-hundred stories above the ground. The novel combination of attractions open to visitors will guarantee a good time for all as one could: Partake of smoked meat at Centre Street Deli Then Visit the AGO for some art Then Languish on the Beach Then Take in a theatrical performance in the West End Then Explore the Humber River Trail Then Dine at the CN Tower Then Listen to an Opera All in one day.

Josh Silver

Fable

The following is a preliminary (and very loose) translation from French of “Fable” by Anne Garetta and Jaques Roubaud. Around 1210, the King of Aragon learned from pilgrims returning from the Holy Land that a group of French jugglers told the most marvelous story of “King Arthur and the Round Table.” He charged his troubadours with obtaining a copy of this story for his own court. These troubadours, during their travels, discovered manuscripts of “The Holy Grail” by Cretien of Troyes. Though Cretien’s “novel” remained unfinished, there were some “chapters” prefiguring the adventures of Sir Gawain or Parceval. They copied these manuscripts, including those left incomplete and gathered them into one collection. This was then translated into Catalan for recitation to the king (for the king did not understand French). Many centuries later, scholars looked at this text to reconstruct the original. They ran into some problems over their course of study: some manuscripts were anonymous; others were under the name of non-existent authors; some were obvious fakes; etc… In the end, the scholars published their research in a book. Note: In the King of Aragon’s land, one can find the city of Zaragoza.

Avi Odenheimer

Constructor

import site as st from concrete import truck, formwork, rebar from steel import shopdrawing, weld from landscape import grass, trees, soil import glass import constructor def build_surface (structure, surface) #this constructs the bridging surface from a structural drawing set in STD format and a surface layering array structure = open (“C:\\ root\\ project\\ surface_structure.std”) steel_schedule = structure.shopdrawing for member in (steel_schedule.length) surface_structure= member.weld, surface.weld top_surface = open (“C:\\ root\\ project\\ surface.sla”) surface = weld (top_surface, surface_structure)

Siri Hermanski

Atriums in Motion: The Album

“Ah, didn’t see you there! *stands up from wingback chair and moseys over to the record player* You might recognize this tune playing on my gramophone, a charming tune, a real masterpiece of pop music. But maybe boring to that special architect in your life who’s bored of love songs and the pillars of pop. Then we have the album for you! *Holds up album cover* Atriums in Motion by Artie and the Archigrams has all your favourite hits repackaged for architectural practitioners! Tracks include: Can’t Buy Me Louvers – The Beatles I Can’t Get No Striations – Rolling Stones My Corbusian Town – Frank Sinatra It Ain’t Necessarily So(cially Condensed) – George Gershwin Ghery Vibrations – The Beach Boys Shigeru Ban Played Waltzing Matilda – The Pogues And Truss Box Blues – Canned Heat Call today for your very own copy of Atriums in Motion and you’ll receive a free copy of Artie and the Archigrams’ album of Jimmy Buffet covers: Elevations in Paradise! CALL TODAY!!”

Oussama El Assir

The Revels

The Revels are a yearly festival in Point Creek, Florida, a popular suburb of Miami and excessively popular with Canadian snowbird sexto-, septo- and octogenarians. Each year, in preparation for The Revels, a committee of seven â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sacred Pilotsâ&#x20AC;? is elected by the local populace. According to tradition, no one at all takes part in this vote: the election booths are open for twenty-four hours (minded in six-hour shifts by paid elections officers), but they must remain empty. After the election is held, and the voter turnout verified as zero percent, the city council chooses at random the Sacred Pilots from the electoral list. Over the next month, the Sacred Pilots coordinate cleaning the city, decorating it and the organization of events. Traditionally, The Revels begin with a parade down main street. Each float is decked out with tinsel, flares, a PA system of some volume, extensive foam constructs, sacred images, geometric patterns and cheese (Point Creek was, at one point, an extensive producer of cheese). After, the events begin: performers, dancers (in the Mytelenian mode), musicians (medieval, baroque, allegorical songs of mystical intent), comedians, magicians (alchemists, illusionists and mechanical feats of amazement), basecube, foot-frizz-bee, games of chance and skill and charades. In every alleyway phrygeries are on sale in the thousands! The feeling is electric! The Revels last a week in total, the mayor forbidding all citizens of work. This, however produces a strange oxymoronic condition: since all of the residents take part in The Revels as paid employees, they (by tradition) do not show up to any part of them. So the parade floats are left at their staging ground near the city limits, the phrygeries are all left in their storage (to be sold later to unsuspecting tourists) and the perfectly clean city remains silent but for a few lone visitors come looking for The Revels.

Aviomancy

Melanie Viger

Aviomancy

In the city of ******* the most important form of divination involves reading the flight of birds (aviomancy) through a series of heavily codified rules and rituals. Instead of electing a mayor or appointing a priest: the people of ******* each have a copy of these rules, produced in bulk by a supplier in ***** ******* (a large city nearby). They each interpret the flights of birds, they viciously debate them every week. The entire city is entirely devoted to “bird mania.” An extract of these rules are as follows: “….Flight paths of 12 degrees to azimuth mean a bountiful harvest of corn exclusively within the next three months. If it is winter at the time then “corn” can be interpreted as “gold;” however, if it is fall then “corn” can be interpreted as “leaves” (then it portends a quick evacuation of all leaves from trees and limits itself to one week); however, if the bird is a budgie, then it portends success in performance and telling of jokes (in any way, shape or form whatsoever)…..” And another extract is as follows: “….. the proper tool used to calculate the movement of birds is a Tetrahaliogon. It is a tool with four eyepieces and a large series of interconnected tubes ending with large glass lenses. By looking through one of the eyepieces the distance a bird flies along one trajectory may be computed. From another, the three-dimensional angle of bird trajectory can be calculated and, if the conditions are right, predicted with some accuracy. From yet another, the altitude of the bird in question may be measured and from the last, how fast the bird is travelling…..”

Ladan Toudeshki

The Liberation of Bread

[Spotlights illuminate stage left, style number ensues. ] the stairs.] TA: Ok, and one and two and The Admiral: Are we all ready? three, and now The Liberator The sets in place? The audi…. ence? The players? You there, Stage Manager! Are we ready? [Enter The Liberator. He is wearing an oversized suit in the Stage Manager: All ready sir! colours of bread, brown and beige. He hands out signs to the TA: Then break a leg! Don’t dancers.] mention the name of the Scottish Play! Let’s go! The Liberator: [Spotlights off] “The enemies were Mighty hungry [Spotlights now illuminate stage And their stomachs rumbled right, the square. The Master of ‘round Ceremonies is there. He wears Only bread would quench their a white button-down shirt and hunger red suspenders. He should be in And they caught them heavy makeup, so his face looks The poor bread sticks flat.] And they ate them with no remorse MC: [shouting through a megaphone] Good evening ladies and But now the bread is germs! Tonight it is my great Sick [emphasis] of it all pleasure to present, The Liber- So we must fight with the ation of Bread As Preoduced bread! by Admiral Estabon Emilio George Wilfred Wolfstein-Gun- [Dancing interlude with classic ther-Cuthbert-Hutchenson III, Zigfeld tropes as, “The rotatFourth Duke of Badenweissen- ing can-can” and exaggerated burgen! So make yourselves movements. The Admiral danccomfortable and lets begiiiiiiiin! es along in the corner] [Spotlight off. Music vamp begins for the opening number, The Great Bread Rebellion, sung to the tune of Mack The Knife. The only instrument playing is a creaky tone-wheel organ. Spotlights on both stairs and square. Enter dancers for stage right and left. A Zigfeld

TA: [Over the music, to the audience] Isn’t this magnificent! A true masterpiece! [Exunt at end of song]