The world wide web is a place of experimentation. My first experimentation with the world wide web was in 2000, when I created a website called theliteraypages.org.uk using my BA essays as content. In 2007, I experimented for a second time. This time by creating a pseudonym and seeing if posting drawings of a highly questionable quality to Wikipedia (and Wikimedia Commons) ended with a right royal flaming or if they met with acceptance.
Accept or reject?
Most were rejected by Wikipedia gateholders, especially in the UK, but the images remained on Wikimedia Commons, and other countries have adopted some of the drawings. For example, the Portugeuse Wikipedia site uses the Claude Leví-Strauss picture, and the Slovakian Wikipedia uses the drawing of Lacan I made seven years ago.
The picture of Claude Leví-Strauss was also used in an edition of Anthropology Now, while a picture of Schoenberg was featured in the programme notes for a performance at the Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara.
Where did the name come from?
I'd just been awarded my doctorate in English Literature at the time and so I compressed Dr Anthony Levings to Dr-ant-lev replacing the final letter ('v') with an 'r' to make it sound more like a name. I then used the name of my son as the forename.
How were the images created?
They were drawn in pen and scanned into a computer on a really poor scanner, where the worst bits were erased in a program that came free with the scanner to make them look closer in resemblance to the people they were meant to represent.
Why haven't you posted any of the pictures here?
Quite frankly, I don't think they're any good.
So, why are you mentioning this now?
I'm fascinated by the way in which stuff you give away for free travels through the Internet and ends up in all sorts of places, even when it's not any good.
Other places to find the work of Edward Drantler
What every medical writer needs to know (Springer)
Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics (SAGE)
Crooked Lunch (blog header)
Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics (SAGE)
Crooked Lunch (blog header)
KORTSLUITING (blog post)
'What is Boredom?' (blog post)
Zero Anthropology
Nietzsche on Tony Blair (Chasing Dragons, blog)
Thomas Damm (twitter avatar)
Bookdrum
as well as other, random places on the Internet. The list of places is fairly impressive. And there even appears to be a front cover on which a drawing by Edward Drantler appears.
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