Mini Bookroom Since the 1970's Shannon Moore has been making small things. Furniture, containers, various scenes and books have all fallen under her miniaturist touch. Here's a taste: Bookbox: Golden Home 9 1/8" x 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" Inside view of Golden Home Bookbox: Blue Britannica. 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 11 1/8" And check out the jewel called The Potting Shed, it's a biblio-diorama! side view rear view front view Moore's website where there are a number of bookboxes and scenes available for sale. Previously on Book Patrol: The Really Small World of Tim Sidford The Return of Mother Nature: The...
The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object
Assembled by the brain trust of THE THING Quarterly's, Jonn Herschend & Will Rogan, The Thing The Book is a magical tribute to our favorite physical object, the printed book. More than 30 "creative visionaries" were asked to contribute with each being assigned a different traditional element of a book. From endpapers to ribbon bookmarks to page numbers, no part of the codex is left untouched. Here's a taste: Ed Ruscha got the bookplate; Jonathan Lethem got the footnotes; Miranda July got the erratta slip; Lawrence Weiner got the thumb tab; John Baldessari got the epigraph; Rick Moody got the endnotes. There are also plenty of essays and...
Scared Straight, 1990’s Style: Drug and Alcohol Posters from Uncle Sam
Here's another offering courtesy of the new partnership between the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Digital Public Library of America. A sampling of Government issued posters from the early 1990's (and one from 1989) dealing with the dangers of drugs and alcohol. All from the vast archive of government posters that reside at the University of Iowa. Enjoy! Previously on Book Patrol: Keeping track for the National Archives and Records Adminsitration
Take Poems Once a Day and call me in the morning: Deborah Alma – Emergency Poet
Meet Deborah Alma the Emergency Poet and mastermind of "the world’s first and only mobile poetic first aid service." Dressed in white coat and stethoscope, Emergency Poet travels the UK in her 1970’s ambulance, accompanied by Nurse Verse or The Poemedic. Her domain - literary and music festivals, libraries, schools, pubs, weddings and conferences… "anywhere where poetic help may be urgently required…" Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her ambulance and prescribes poems as cures. In the waiting room under an attached awning Nurse Verse dispenses poemcetamols and other poetic pills and treatments from the Cold Comfort Pharmacy. Perhaps the folks at Wave...
Of Interest: Burn the Diaries, How Literature Saved My Life, Storytelling Through Textiles and The Writer’s Garden
Burn the Diaries by Moyra Davey and Alison Strayer. Illustrated with photos by Davey. "The dross of the diary, the compulsion to scribble, the delusion that we can hold on to time. The inversion of this neurosis is the anxiety of being read, the fear of wounding and, just as strong, the dread of being unmasked." Comprised of texts from Moyra Davey and Alison Strayer Burn the Diaries is a meditation on the act of writing and much more. Using the works of Jean Genet Davey explores the story of her life in text and photographs. She then shares them...