“Gadzooks!” is an antiquated expression of surprise, literally derived from “god’s hooks,” referring to the spikes used to nail G-zus to the cross. In typography, “gadzooks” refer ḽ ṯ ҢbʋӆңỎ ӆἤⲶҟ ởŋeδƘ ḏƭҫs ӆɳ ṯⲎ. ἤжгX! is an iterative collaboration between mm and dd, made in the year 2025 A.D., the result of a year-long exquisite corpse-like experiment wherein dd assembled text to prompt a drawing by mm, which then inspired the next round of text, often retroactively self-organizing itself around the resulting images, in a custom font (codiceX, freely available) that dd created for the occasion.
Excerpts:
—5cense (+ additional notes on the making of in posts: 1203, 1210 + 1231)
— Blazevox
