"Perhaps as much as any artist using image/sound media, Hill's work in video is about, and is, a new form of writing."Seattle Post-Intelligencer art critic Regina Hackett reports on her blog Art To Go that Seattle based video artist Gary Hill has donated "four of his critical video language suites from the 1980s" to the Seattle Art Museum.Included is Hill's 1987-88 43+ minute piece Incidence of Catastrophe which was inspired by Maurice Blanchot's novel Thomas the Obscure. Like Hill, Blanchot's work is in "constant engagement with the 'question of literature', a simultaneous enactment and interrogation of the profoundly strange experience...
Helen Yentus Book Design
Talk about an inviting altered book.Released to late to make the Top Ten Lists for Book Design this year but a spot on the 2008 list pretty much guaranteed.Helen Yentus also did the cover for Elizabeth Gilbert's hugely popular book eat pray loveGallery of Yentus book coversThanks to The Book Design Review for the lead
The Book Wall at the Kansas City Public Library
Great idea - worthy titles- the design is questionable- books look like a cross between a book club edition and Easton PressThanks to Iconic Books for the leadImage 1 viaImage 2 via
The Twitter Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses
It started back in February. One line of Ulysses every 15 minutes. It took 257 days. On November 13 the last of the 24765 lines was published.For those unfamiliar with Twitter, it is a social networking service that only allows 140 characters per message. Some call it micro-blogging, on one hand it seems like blogging ADD style while on the other it presents a fresh, new template for expression.The folks at Booktwo.org deserve a ton credit for this project. This is Literature 2.0 as much as it is Book 2.0. Booktwo.org says the core of their mission is "to explore...
Is the Kindle the Ultimate Reading Machine?
Evan Schnittman, vice president of business development at Oxford University Press, has an interesting, positive take on Amazon's Kindle that is worth a read.One thing to keep in mind argues Schnittman is that us book-focused news types are not the target audience for this product. This one is for the pure readers. Not the book collectors, the booksellers, not for the book as an object gang but "for folks like my sister-in-law Laurie, a voracious reader of print books" as Schnittman says.He goes on:"Immersive reading has always been the bane of electronic content. As extractive content such as reference has...