Slicing Grapefruit:
1. New Instruction Book
2. Data Bank Site
Pt 1: A New Book of Instruction and Drawings derived from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit.
SIZE
Height: 0.5 inch
Width: 17 inch
Thickness: 1.75 inch
This book deconstructs and reintegrates the instructions from Grapefruit, written by Yoko Ono.
I selected the instructions from the first and second chapters of the source book by breaking down the sentences into their components, such as nouns, verbs, time, prepositions, and duration.
The process was to put the material in a table and by using the statistics function, rearrange the content according to the number of times they appear in their category.
After the rearrangement, a tabular report is provided sorted by order of the words’ frequency. Then by using the original method of breaking down instructions backwards, the order made by the frequency provides a new instructional book.
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