Friday, May 28, 2010

FAUX POSTAGE SCIENCE FICTION STAMPS/ lunar liberty 22 asteris/ REPUBLIC OF THE MOON/ a tableau of the loonese script




Lunar Liberty
2000
Republic of the Moon
by Eric Whollem
Edition of 100, plus ten artist's proofs
Copyright by the artist

The Digital Script of the Loonese

Notes from the text of Quantus Qwo's Treatise on Lunar Civilization

It was the noble Cudley, first postmaster general of the Republic of the
Moon, who developed the digital alphabet depicted on this 22 Asteri
stamp. He allegedly developed the alphabet utilizing an antique DOS
system word  processor that was brought to the moon as scrap metal
in the twenty second century.