Word Messengers (A Single Screw of Flesh is All That Pins the Soul), 2006, organza, ribbon, silk, glueThe current exhibit at The Columbia Museum of Art features the work of the contemporary American artist Lesley Dill.The show, I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill, consists of 34 pieces and is "the first retrospective exhibition of the artist of this scale."A Word Made Flesh...Throat, 1994, photolithograph, mixed intaglio, thread, with text by Emily DickinsonFrom the press release:Her pieces give visual form to poetic texts by Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Franz Kafka and others. For Dill, words are her ‘spiritual armor’ and she freely...
A McDonalds Book Sandwich
This ad campaign was created for McDonalds in Hungary by the advertising agency DDB in Budapest and "i'm lovin' it"Thanks to Every Book Its Reader for the lead
Happy Holidays!
via Real SimpleBook Patrol would like to thank everyone for their support and readership over the past year and we wish everyone a happy holiday season..... Photo by Aga Inésand only the best in the coming year!You can see a few more examples of xmas book trees at Booklicious
Best Independent Bookshops in Seattle with additions
Photo by Josh Trujillo/Seattle P-IEarlier this month CBS Seattle released a list of Seattle's Best Independent Bookshops.They begin their story::A bigger book isn’t necessarily a better book — and so too a bigger bookstore isn’t necessarily a better bookstore. While Barnes & Noble, Borders and online retailers may have thousands of copies for that latest best seller, Seattle also is home to many smaller independent shops which cater to readers with finer tastes. Besides Elliott Bay, there’s also the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Left Bank Books, Wessel & Lieberman and others putting a unique stamp on Seattle’s reading scene.Beside the shops...
Before you buy a book for your kids this Christmas
watch this little video.Oouch!