Michael Lieberman

A Google Pictionary

 Sure, we're close to the end of the printed dictionary, for it is perhaps the ultimate printed matter for digital replacement. Now what if we replace the words with images? Welcome to Google book  a project by Ben West & Felix Heyes. In Google book, West and Hayes provide a visual rendering of the Google-first mentality that currently permeates and dominates our culture's search for information.   Here's what they did :They took the 21,000 words that were in the dictionary they chose and entered each word into Google. The first image that was returned became the visual equivalent.The resulting PDF was...

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Books on Books: The Painted Version

Talk about a book on books!Can anyone help identify the piece? There are some mentions that it is by John Martin and is called "Hombre Leyendo en una Librería" (Man reading in a library) but I have been unable to confirm.UPDATE:Case resolved -Image is by John Martin, Man reading in a library - Thanks CharlesCover illustration for the 1993 French Edition of Gerard Bessette's Le libraire . Originally published in 1960 (translated as Not for Every Eye)The book painting brings to mind the work of  Mike Stilkey whose latest commission was this piece for the flagship store of Hong Kong...

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Hail to the Book! A couple of booksellers get physical

"if they are [books] to be of any use they must be as living friends or acquaintances and the whole art of forming and keeping a library consists in treating them on this footing alike mentally and materially" - from Books in the house by Alfred William Pollard, 1904In this video, London booksellers Adrian Harrington and Jonathan Kearnes take us on a 15 minute tactile journey focusing on the physical, irreplaceable nature of the book object.  Whether it is Harrington tying together the long history, from Dickens to Harry Potter, of books being the launching pad for cultural stardom to...

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A Trip Across America with the Dickman’s

With Memorial Day around the corner and summer ahead this is the time of year when many of us start thinking road trip. Regardless of our mode; car, bike, plane, train or ..., the goal is to get out there and have some fun. One item you might want to consider bringing along with you is the latest book from poetry's rising dynamic duo, Matthew & Michael Dickman. 50 American Plays (Poems) is a 52 act (don't forget Guam and Puerto Rico) fun-filled parade through America. From the singing jews and dancing blacks of Walt Disney Doesn't Give a Shit...

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Books at the gas station

 In Australia they call them bowsers; here we call them gas pumps.No matter what you call them check out this commercial for the Nissan Leaf electric car that aired down under and features the bowser above.And while we are at the gas station let's not forget this life-size gas station made entirely from the covers of books by Dutch conceptual artist Job Koelewijn's in 2007. The name of the piece: Sanctuary.Previously on book patrol:Fill 'er up at Job Koelewijn's 'Sanctuary'Thanks to Bookshelf Porn for the lead on the bowsers

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