Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, has created this beautiful video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out,Enjoy!
The art of broken Kindle screens
The book is called “56 Broken Kindle Screens” and is the brainchild of digitial artist Sebastian Schmieg in collaboration with Silvio Lorusso. It is a compilation of found images depicting broken Kindle screens.“56 Broken Kindle Screens” "takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device's materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements."Of course, the book is available as a print on demand title only and is selling for under $5.Video of how the book appears on the Kindle: 56 Broken Kindle...
Words of Mystery
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "every word was once a poem", but where do these words come from? Independent filmmaker Jessica Oreck unfolds some of the etymological meaning of words in her new animated mini-series, Mysteries of Vernacular. Each word is skillfully constructed within the pages of old books, then animated in a 90 second short, often taking 80 hours or more to create. When complete, the Mysteries' shorts will contain 26 installments of word origins in alphabetical order. By day, Oreck produces documentary films on such topics as Russian folktales against a backdrop of war in The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, and Arctic Cowboys, about reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland. The Mysteries mini-series began as...
Literary Table Napkins
Enjoy the company of four of the world's greatest writers at your dining table. This set of four cotton napkins featuring the typewritten letters of Jack London, Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain will enliven any meal. Never mind that Emily Dickinson's loveletter to Susie was written about ten years prior to the invention of the typewriter—it will melt your heart. Mark Twain's note to a young child named Joy will make you rethink every letter you have ever written. "The idea of your house going to the wanton expense of a flower garden!—aren't you enough? And what do...
Long Overdue Library Cards
Who doesn't have a book lover in their life who would appreciate a well-crafted due date card? Library Cards, from the creative team of Sara & Brad McNally of Constellation & Co. in Seattle, are letterpress printed on 3x5 inch white card stock with bookish phrases, accompanied with manila pocket envelopes. For the perfect gift to a mutual book fan, tuck them inside a book with an endearing note or literary quote. Available individually, or in a boxed set of five here.The welcoming print shop of Constellation & Co. world headquarters located in an old 19th century building in Pioneer Square in Seattle.