What Happens on Each Page of Gravity's Rainbow

Zak Smith’s Illustrations For Each Page of Gravity’s Rainbow – The Modern Word hosts a staggering 755 illustrations by New York based artist, Zak Smith, depicting the events and imagery of Pynchon’s magnum opus. It was exhibited at the Whiteny Biennial last year, taking up an entire wall, and is now completely viewable online. I wrote an introduction to the work and co-created the website, personally coding over 400 pages of HTML and giving myself the worst neck pain of my life!

It was worth it, though - we got mentioned on Kottke.org, Metafilter, Screenhead, and Yahoo! Picks-- each one creating a spike of over 1,000 unique hits per day. Funny to think that once per minute, someone new is checking out a website featuring experimental illustrations of an absurdly difficult novel.