Douglas Coupland is as much of a visual artist as he is a writer. With his book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Coupland engraved his name on popular culture by tagging the post baby-boomer generation. Books; however, are more than words for Coupland.Coupland's latest book piece is titled Fifty Books I Have Read More than Once. Coupland takes the covers from the 50 books he has read more than once and glues them to the ends of wooden blocks, the length of which is determined by the books importance to Coupland. The installation is on view at the...
Graphic Poetry. Ted Kooser Meets Paul Hornschemeier
The 5th installment of the Poetry Foundation's The Poem as Comic Strip series features a Paul Hornschemeier interpretation of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser's poem The Giant Slide.Upon reading the poem Hornschemeier says he "saw the entire comic, just as it is in the finished version, all of the panels just floating there along with the time and beats of the poem,”Here is a link to the strip. (pdf)Here are the other 4 strips in the series:#1: David Heatley and Diane Wakoski#2: Gabrielle Bell and Emily Dickinson#3: Jeffrey Brown and Russell Edson#4: Ron Regé, Jr. and...
The Dumbing of the American Bookseller
The image is a tapestry of the words "a novel" that appear on the covers or dust jackets of titles currently on the New York Times bestseller list.It was created by David Friedman for a post at the Ironic Sans blog. "I guess just being a work of fiction isn't enough anymore...You have to emblazen your book with a category on the cover so the book superstore employees know where it belongs." says Friedman.As Ron Hogan of Galleycat suggests "hasn't this tag been semi-ubiquitous for at least a decade?"I wouldn't be surprised to find a direct correlation of the use...
A Dark Alphabet Book Comes to Life
Here is an amazing video tribute to Edward Gorey's sinister alphabet book the Gashlycrumb Tinies. The film is the work of Matt Duplessie of ClandestinyThanks to BookGirl for the lead
I Guess It Still Beats the LongPen
Steve Weber at the Selling Books blog posted this cartoon.He titled it:Easy way to get rich selling collectible booksthen said:"OK, here's how it works:1. Find out which authors will be visiting your town this week (you can search here).2. Pick the most famous authors, and buy some of their books.3. Everything else you need to know is in this cartoon."Please tell me he's kidding.