Welcome to Haiku-pons, the latest direct mailing for the Target Corporation.The booklet features coupons from select departments; each adorned with a corresponding haiku.Now for the fun part. As you clip your way through the booklet new haikus are formed. Above is a complete page, below is the page with the middle coupon excisedWhat a great idea though the timing could've been a bit better. Why are these showing up in peoples mailboxes the first week of May when April was National Poetry Month?
Letters for a New Library
To commemorate, celebrate and promote the opening of the new public library in Troy, Michigan in 1971 children's librarian Marguerite Hart sent letters to a slew of notable figures asking them to "write a letter to the children of Troy about the importance of libraries, and their memories of reading and of books."Hart received 97 letters in return "from individuals who spanned the arts, sciences, and politics across the50 states, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, the Mariana Islands, and American Samoa." From Saul Alinsky to Vincent Price, from Isaac Asimov to the Pope, the letters provide a cultural snapshot of...
The Monobookist Invades New York
photo via CNN Doth One Book Make a Store? Everywhere you look in the recently opened Ed's Martian Book in New York City's West Village you'll see the same book. Whether you're in the New and Noteworthy section or the Sale section you will be exposed to one book and one book only, Kessler's recently released, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days With the Phoenix Mars Mission, an account of his time spend inside NASA's mission control.3000 or so copies of the book make up the entire inventory of the book shop.photo Guy Calaf for The New York...
The BiebBus: A Mobile Library for the Ages
The essence of a successful library is one that serves its community well.But what about those places that are hard to get to and where it is to costly to build a library?That's where the bookmobile or mobile library comes in and this one might just take the cake.The Biebbus was specially designed for the people of the densely populated and difficult to navigate Zaan region of the Amsterdam metro area by architect Jord den Hollander.It consists of a refurbished shipping container that pops up to provide two rooms, one for the 7,000 books it carries and one for the...
A Book Wall in a Food Place
The restaurant is called Brushstroke, a much anticipated Japanese restaurant about to open in New York City, and the walls of the bar/lounge are made of 12,000 used paperbacks!The Gothamist notes in their post on the opening the potential problems of such an undertaking "Who will be the first sake-bombed customer to idly pull out one of the books and bring the entire restaurant crashing down?"The interior was designed by Super PotatoFrom the photo above it looks like, with some minor tinkering, the the room can be turned into a Kafkaesque biblio-prision for the illiterate.