Installation view. Photo: Sibila Savage “Somewhere to begin, with the most available of formats, the book. At times merely polemical or critical, using such availability as comment on itself — an intimate object in public space.” — Simon Cutts, forward to Some Forms of Availability"Museums are asking the same questions bookstores are...I mean, why go to a museum if you can just look at pictures online in high resolution? It's about the experience." says Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.So when Ramsay Bell Breslin, an editor at Kelsey Street Press, conveyed her dilemma of having to either...
Introducing book patrol TV
Welcome to book patrol TV a new weekly one hour video feast of book goodness. Culled from the mountains of book themed videos permeating the internet bpTV aims to present the viewer with a wide range of material from all corners of the book world. Content will feature both new and older material and include book trailers, animations, readings, commercials, movie scenes, how to videos and book-themed exhibitions. Episodes can be dedicated to a sole one hour clip or it can be a compilation of videos from across the book spectrum.Episode 1 is one such compilation featuring 16 videos. In...
Have you hugged your bookmobile today?
Today, right smack in the middle of National Library Week, is National Bookmobile Day! It's time to celebrate the more than 900 bookmobiles that roam our communities providing essential services to those facing economic, geographic, or physical challenges that prevent them from being able to visit a brick and mortar library.John Amundsen's piece at American Libraries, Bookmobiles: A Proud History, a Promising Future provides a nice overview of these vital mobile institutions:Bookmobiles have a proud history of service dating back to the late 1850s, when a horse-drawn collection of books began making the rounds in Cumbria, England. Here in the...
An actor clears his bookshelves: The Michael Lerner Collection at Bonhams
Michael Lerner as Jack Lipnick in Barton FinkHe is best known for his Academy Award® Nominated performance as Jack Lipnick, the Louis B. Mayer infused character in the Coen Brothers film Barton Fink. But Michael Lerner has been entertaining us on stage and screen since the late 1960's. He has made guest appearances on classic television shows like the Brady Brunch, The Odd Couple and M*A*S*H and has also appeared as a guest star on an episode of the popular HBO series Entourage. His movie resume is just as impressive. From roles in Godzilla to Eight Men Out, from Elf...
Checking in at The Library. A Hotel for Readers
Located on Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, The Library, is a beach resort committed to the book set. Their goal: "If you can finish one book while staying with us, we think this is more than an accomplishment [for] our team.The centerpiece of the hotel is "The LiB" a spacious, well lit library with views of the sea.If you still need more, the the pool is red and the beachfront restaurant is called The Page! Also sprinkled around the property are book themed sculptures like these: and where did the inspiration for this Disneyland for readers come from?From the Project...