The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930...I think they're getting thirsty in California. In the last week The LA Times food blog Daily Dish had a post on 4 essential beer books and the latest Cook the Books column from Moe's Books in Berkeley offers up books for the golden age of mixology. So keeping in the spirit here's a peek at some delectable and collectible food and drink books currently on the market: Eat Drink...
A Good Burn: Bibliocide by Julian Baggini
Julain Baggini begins his piece at aeon by asking the right questionNo civilised person is supposed to make bonfires of books. ‘Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings,’ wrote the German poet Heinrich Heine in the century before Nazism. Burning books is a sacrilegious act, and the taboo against it particularly binds writers. So what was I doing in a Somerset field lighting a match under the 32 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica?He then explains his process and his dilemma in detail. In the end it is very difficult to see any reason why...
Mr. Bookman visits Seinfeld
The folks at IMDb were having a discussion about who your favorite living "senior" in entertainment is and someone chimed in with Phillip Baker Hall.Hall plays a library investigator, Mr. Bookman, in the hysterical scene above where he pays a visit to Jerry to ask after an overdue book.Enjoy!
The Lighted Books of Airan Kang
Luminous WordsSouth Korean artist Airan Kang takes an illuminated approach to her art. Her striking digitally lighted books, along with her new LED paintings, are currently on view in her second solo show at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. To prepare for her 2010 show, Light Reading, Kang traveled around the world to visit and photograph different bookstores and famous libraries in order to then recreate each environment as digitized versions of the original simulacra.Lord Byron (Hyper Open Book), 2010. LED lights, resin encasement, custom electronics. 24 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 4 inchesThe current show, Luminous Words, features over one hundred digital...
Personalized Pulp
Welcome to the PULP-O-MIZER where, thanks to Bradley W. Schenk, you too can join the annals of pulp cover history.Screenshot There are plenty of design and text options and if you're happy with your creation you have the opportunity to merchandise the pants off it.Here's what the t-shirt would look like:WARNING! This could be a time vampire, proceed accordingly.PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generatorThanks to Booklicious for the lead