In lieu of black friday today, I'm calling it green friday. Some early holiday shopping ideas for all the Dr. Seuss "Green Eggs & Ham" fans on your list. One of the most amazing works is from Artist Robert Peterson who beaded the entire text of "Green Eggs and Ham" using more than 250,000 beads. If that wasn't enough, he also beaded a green ham purse and two green egg brooches.Crocheted green eggs and ham by The Izz.Would you like them on your ears? Green eggs and ham jewelry on Etsy. A green eggs and ham soap set on Etsy with a ham and...
The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center
This installment of In The Stacks takes us to The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center. The museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming who started collecting posters in 1995, the year the Chinese government ceased the long-standing practice of creating these propaganda-laced posters.The collection is "dedicated to documenting the changes of modern China as depicted on thousands upon thousands of striking posters from 1910 to 1990."The collection holds 6000 posters produced from 1940 to 1990. The museum also holds a significant collection of Shanghai Lady Calendar posters from 1910 to 1940.Shanghai Lady Calendar posterNPR's Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt pays a visit to the museumPreviously on In...
Twinkieless in Gotham
It's a sad day in Gotham today for fans of the Hostess Twinkie. A look back at the baked goodness in the funny pages of Marvel and DC comic book advertisements. See 229 more Hostess ads at Tomorrow's Heroes. A delight in every byte.::Cross-posted over at Letterology today.
Advertising on the dust jacket
Dust jacket used by The Book Inn Lending Library, Seattle Washington ca. 1930's. Long before the Kindle Lending Library there were actual brick and mortar lending libraries. These were not public libraries but part of the offerings of book and department stores. Most charged a daily, weekly or monthly rate and many used their own printed dust jackets to both protect the book and as a revenue stream.Above is one used by The Book Inn Lending Library in Seattle. It features a slew of local advertising from neighborhood merchants (the library was in the now trending Ballard neighborhood). The ads feature the usual suspects;...
Introducing the Biblio-Mat: A vending machine for modern times
The Monkey's Paw is billed as "Toronto's most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop" and they live up to the name with their latest addition, the Biblio-Mat.Faced with the seemingly perpetual bookseller challenge of what to do with all the excess inventory that has become almost impossible to sell the folks at The Monkey's Paw came up with their own ingenious solution. They built their own vending machine.The Biblio-Mat will spew old and unusual books for $2 a piece and boasts that "Every book is a Surprise" with "No Two Alike."And who can blame the proprietor as they try and entice you to "collect all...