{"id":2137,"date":"2013-04-22T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-04-22T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:07:16","slug":"which-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/04\/22\/which-riddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Riddle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/04\/fluxbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109\" alt=\"E.S.P. fluxkits, by James Riddle\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/04\/fluxbox-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">E.S.P. fluxkits, by James Riddle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>James Riddle, creator of the E.S.P. fluxkit, is represented in the collection by 4 E.S.P. fluxkits.<br \/>\n1) clear box; colored cards visible<br \/>\n2) clear box; colored cards visible<br \/>\n3) white box; contents not visible<br \/>\n4) box with white top, black bottom; contents not visible<\/p>\n<p>Not physically identical, but conceptually, yes, the idea goes across the board. The directions (when available) state that one is to run one&#8217;s fingers lightly over the cards while blindfolded in an effort to distinguish the colors from one another. In attempting to give a digital sense of the physical collection here at the University of Iowa, Which Riddle gets scanned? I ask the boxes: who wants to go? I wait for them to speak. Nope. Nothing. This moment is E.S.P. free. I pay more mind to the containers for each box, which has the most identifying ephemera? Which has been most attentively labeled and wrapped?<br \/>\nSomewhere I read that they should contain 10 cards. Well, that&#8217;s not quite the reality. Two boxes contain 6 cards and instructions, one contains 9 cards, the last contains 13 cards PLUS instructions. And there we have it. I won&#8217;t presume to redistribute the cards evenly but I will give the best representation of the color spectrum Riddle wanted to pose in the E.S.P. fluxkits. Or was it the color spectrum he was really getting at?<\/p>\n<p>Again we are posed with more questions than answers, but the collection only becomes more intriguing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_112\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/04\/31858055133841_023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112\" alt=\"a portion of E.S.P. fluxkit, by James Riddle c. 1966\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/fluxus\/files\/2013\/04\/31858055133841_023-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">a portion of E.S.P. fluxkit, by James Riddle c. 1966<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Riddle, creator of the E.S.P. fluxkit, is represented in the collection by 4 E.S.P. fluxkits. 1) clear box; colored cards visible 2) clear box; colored cards visible 3) white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}