The latest crowdsourced gem for the book crowd comes to us from Bibliobath. Thanks to Wing Weng and Jasper Jansen, a Dutch-Chinese couple based in Amsterdam, we finally have the waterproof book! They have 4 titles ready to go; a selection of short stories by Mark Twain, one of the selected poetry by W. B. Yeats, an edition of Shakespeare's Macbeth and a special Kickstarter-only edition of the Chinese classic The Art of War. The campaign just launched and the goal is to raise about $10,000 in the next month. Among the rewards are a couple geared...
A peak at some of the treasures of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Did you know that 82 of the 233 surviving First Folios of Shakespeare's plays live at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.? To mark the quadricentennial of his death The Folger is sending a few copies on a tour of America. Jonathan Karl of ABC News was granted exclusive access to the Folger vault, where he got a look at some of the goodies that rarely see the light of day.
Brewster Kahle says ‘Digitize Everything’
[youtube]https://youtu.be/fDGKfVJQRkk[/youtube] What a perfect way to follow up my look at John Palfrey's new book BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google then with a short video from EDUCAUSE Review Online of Brewster Kahle talking about the absolute necessity of digitizing everything we can get our hands on. Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, has been at the forefront of the digital revolution, especially when it comes to the role of the 'library'. His mantra is simple - take the twin attributes that define the library, preservation and access, and apply it to the online...
The Literary Portraits of Alvaro Tapia
Among the healthy portrait output of Chilean illustrator and filmmaker Alvaro Tapia reside a neat series of literary portraits. From Poe to Rushdie these captivating portraits remind me a bit of the work of Ralph Steadman Enjoy! Alvaro Tapia's website
‘Bookfighting’: Art with books gets physical
If you've hung around Book Patrol long enough you know I've got a hankering for the representation of books in art. Now thanks to the French artist Yves Duranthon the relationship between books and art just got a whole lot more physical. It's called 'bookfighting' and earlier this month about 40 people gathered at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to get it on. Think dodgeball in a cage as combatants throw the book at each other trying to score points. And where might such a wild idea come from? Duranthon credits the Japanese writer Yuichi Yokoyama whose novel Combats...