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| - | '''Daniel Christopher Boyer''' (born [[November 2]], [[1971]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Surrealism|surrealist]] painter, [[draughtsman]], [[printmaker]] and [[digital artist]] known for his [[entoptic graphomania]]s (a surrealist method developed by the [[Romania|Romanian]] [[Dolfi Trost]], in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are made between the dots). He is also known for working in unconventional media such as [[gouache]] diluted with Coca-Cola and Diet Coke and for drawings done using a [[bingo]] dauber. | ||
| - | He published several books including a surrealist novel and two books of surrealist poetry. | + | # A [[game of chance]] for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the [[caller]]; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. |
| - | + | # A win in such a game. | |
| - | ==Biography== | + | #: ''There were two '''bingos''' in the last game, so the players split the prize money.'' |
| - | He was born at [[Hancock]], [[Michigan]], his father a college professor and mother a college professor turned housewife. He made his first automatic paintings in [[1987]], and joined [[Surrealist Movement in the United States]] in [[1991]] after corresponding with [[Franklin Rosemont]]. | + | # A play where all seven [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] [[tile]]s are played. |
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| - | He had failed engagements to Lori Werkheiser and Elizabeth M.B. Davis. | + | |
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| - | He graduated from Curry College with a degree in Politics and History but would later study art at Harvard University. He worked briefly as a saddlery clerk, a soccer agent and a teacher of electric toothbrush painting. | + | |
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| - | == Selected bibliography == | + | |
| - | *''The Octopus Frets: political poems'' (1994) | + | |
| - | *''The Peloponnesian Snows'' (first book exclusively in [[webdings]]) | + | |
| - | *''What Snow Disrupts'' (exclusively [[large print]])(2008) | + | |
| - | *''[[Ethos of Decentralisation]]'' ([[automatic equations]]) | + | |
| - | *''(Invisible As) The Sex of Port'' (poetry) | + | |
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- A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
- A win in such a game.
- There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.
- A play where all seven letter tiles are played.
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