The Amazon influence on Shelfari is beginning to show. In their first major move since hiring publishing heavyweight David Nudo, former publisher of Publisher's Weekly, to be their Director of Sales and Marketing Shelfari has announced the creation of wiki-style author pages.Shelfari hopes that this new feature will help them "become a destination for not only biographical information but interactions between authors and their fans"Authors will now be able to create their own pages which "will feature an open wiki in addition to a message board and a list of written books."Jason Kincaid has a post on the new initiative...
Pop Surrealism Meets the Book
"Dry All My Tears" 2008 Ink and acrylic on old bookSize: 27/29cm (10.5/7.5in)Mike Stilkey is on a roll. On the heels of his amazing installation, "When the Animals Rebel" at Rice University this past summer comes "An Occasion of Wonder" his one-man show currently on view at at Milieu Gallerie in Bern, Switzerland.From the exhibit intro:Using ink, colored pencil, acrilyc, gouache and lacquer Mike Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by...
Book Hybrid
"The Future of Books" by Kyle BeanThanks to if:book for the lead
SaveScriveCookieMaker
Here is a little Friday fun compliments of Lynn Wienck of The Chisholm Trail Bookstore*****************************************************************************If newspapers are for breakfast, books for lunch, and cereal boxes for snacks, then this new do-it-yourself-innovation is a tasteful edition to kitchen appliances: fulfilling, appetizing, and digestible in multiple meals.SaveScriveCookieMaker, similar in size and shape to the infamous SaveScriveWaffleIron, comes with removable aluminum trays for easy cleaning. It bakes a single cookie while simultaneously blind stamping six lines of text. Nontoxic, moveable type, SaveScriveAlphabet, sold separately, is available for creations of original, awkward, and unappreciated works. The bite-sized, but inedible letters, slide into a recessed...
Treasures of Montefiascone
The book Show