[youtube]http://youtu.be/iL0dV2OvHMM[/youtube] If reading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in bed isn't enough to put you to sleep perhaps Elling Lien's 12 minute music box version will. Lien "took the first few paragraphs from the first ten chapters of Finnegans Wake... printed them onto strips of paper... then punched out the vowels (including Y!) and ran the cards through a punchcard music box player" Good night! h/t BibliOdyssey
Visual Libris: 100 artists and the books that influenced them
Fahrenheit 451 by Frank Germano. “Montag and Clarisse” 18” x 40” (framed, approximately 22” x 44”). Ink and acrylic. Inspired by the The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference that invaded Seattle last week artist Siolo Thompson put out the call for artists to create works derived from books that impacted their lives. 100 artists contributed and all genres, from sci-fi to non-fiction, poetry to romance are included. The result is the nothing short of spectacular. Ex Libris: 100 Artists, 100 Books is destined to be one of the bookish exhibition highlights of 2014. The sample below is just a taste of the depth, range...
Nicole Brauch: The weight of small things is our lives
A Letter And Its Consequences, 2013. Encaustic, acrylic, glass bottle, ash, book pages, photo and diagram. 16 x 12 x 3 inches. It is the remnants of a rich life that form the foundation of Nicole Brauch's work. Brauch is an archaeologist of the highest order, one who combs through their family and personal history to makes sense of the world around them. Tomorrow We’ll See, 2013. Glass jar, wrapped object, handkerchief, photo, acrylic, letter, encaustic and small key hole. 10 x 10 x 4 inches Brauch explains her process: My work is derived from personal history – either told or uncovered. I...
In The Stacks: William Burroughs Through the Lens of Allen Ginsberg
William Burroughs in front of sphinx at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. 1953. For this installment of In the Stacks we visit the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto and their fabulous collection of Allen Ginsberg's photographs. With almost 8,000 prints the collection is the largest repository of photographs by Allen Ginsberg in the world. William Burroughs at typewriter fixing Yage Letters typescript, E 7th street, NY. 1953And with 2014 being the 100th anniversary of the birth of fellow beat icon William Burroughs what better than a selection of photographs spanning almost 40 years of their seminal relationship....
What’s Your Favorite Animal? A benefit for the home for picture book art
To benefit the The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Henry Holt and Company and 14 "heroes of picture book art" have joined forces for the new book, What’s Your Favorite Animal? “The idea of getting some of the world’s most talented and beloved picture book creators to contribute to a book that benefits a museum celebrating the art of the picture book was just too perfect. We could not be more excited to be part of bringing this book to life,” says Jonathan Yaged, president of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, which includes Henry Holt. The illustrious list of illustrators include Nick...