Lack Of Character

Lack of Character [twitter.com/LackOfCharacter]

Inspiration: - twitter is a daisy-chained quasi-community of narcissistic over-sharers who equate truncated, tourettes-like utterances with pithy proclamations of profound interpersonal importance - web 2.0 social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, Livejournal, et al.) are little more than swirling cesspools of self-important cyber-sages and pseudointellectual emo-sexuals - craft a densely surreal screed that combines the narrative deficiencies of twitter with the expository excesses endemic to web 2.0 social networking sites Posts: - 140 tweets @ 1 tweet per day - first tweet = 140 characters - subsequent tweets = 1 less character than the tweet prior - final tweet = zero characters - tweets will be posted manually (versus via an auto-posting app) - tweets will be written within a 15-30 minute time period - tweets will be written the day of, and immediately prior to, their posting - tweets will not be written using pre-existing material - tweets will not be written according to a pre-determined narrative arc Content: - the phrase “a disturbing lack of character” will serve as a touchstone - extemporaneous, on-the-fly, convoluted, obscure, ultimately cohesive and linear - tweets will invite multiple interpretations when read individually - tweets will invite multiple, shifting interpretations when read sequentially - relatively readable and grammatically correct in essay form (e.g. paragraphs) - beginning (140 characters), middle (70 characters), and end (0 characters) Style: - grandiose (to fully understand each tweet, a dictionary will be required) - obtuse (to fully understand each tweet, wikipedia will be required) - morose - debased - over-wrought - self-referential (each tweet will stand on its own and relate to those adjacent) - self-important - pseudo-profound