Coudal Partners posted this intriguing offer today:We've been having a blast and working like mad on our latest project which is set to debut in the next few days. We thought we'd try an experiment in commerce before the launch. Place your order, sight unseen, for our next deal and you'll pay the same price as everyone else does after it goes public. The difference is you'll get a "low number" of one thing and a "first-edition" of something else. Plus, we'll add a little something extra to your order when it ships. Only 90 of these Blind Faith Editions...
Read at Work (or Play)
The classics meet Power Point. Clever, if not exactly how I'd try to get away with it.Or you could simply play Pong in book-form.
The Artist’s Library
Joseph Kosuth. On the Phenomenon of the Library, 2006The Artist's Library, currently on view at the Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, features work by 9 contemporary artists whose work centers around the book."The Artist’s Library represents a ‘Library of Babel’ like that born in the visionary mind of the great Argentinean writer J. L. Borges. Artists and spectators become its librarians"This seminal exhibition is curated by Carrie Pilto and consumes all of the Aldo Rossi designed building. The bookshop, the theater, the reading room, the cafe have all become part of the "library."The artists featured...
Camera Stores = Bookstores?
This is Jason Burns on the competition the Internet poses to small camera stores:So times have changed. Internet businesses are often the first place to look. [...] This mythical “support and experience” that the mom and pop [...] store provides is just not accurate. [...] It’s time to take a hard look at your approach. If your business exists on the premise of screwing your customer in the name of small town goodness, it’s time to lock your doors [...].Though the differences between camera stores and bookshops are apparent, it's the last sentence that really grabbed me. The appeal to...
The First Library on Mars
The Phoenix has landed on Mars! That DVD you see attached to the Phoenix lander was created by the Planetary Society and is titled "Visions of Mars." It contains "works by The Planetary Society's co-founder Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Kim Stanley Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Percival Lowell, and many more." The disc includes classic science fiction texts, artwork, radio broadcasts and the names of 250,000 earthlings."Mars has long fired the imaginations of people around the world, and that fascination has been captured in countless stories and artistic visions of the Red Planet. The Planetary Society brought together the...