Lloyd and Lenore Dickman are booksellers with perhaps one million books. But they don't advertise, don't keep regular hours, and are located on a farm in rural Wisconsin. Oh, and one of their twelve (!?) buildings-full-of-books is in a former manure tank remodeled to look like a castle. Bill Geist recently profiled this charming and wildly-endearing couple for CBS.Now, I have to go check plane fares to Wisconsin...UPDATE (5/23/08): Recently came across the store's exact contact info/location: County Road K in Markesan, WI. 920-398-3375.
Death of a Bookstore Trailer
Video trailers are becoming part of the standard marketing plan for many publishers but this is the first time I have seen one created for a bookshop that's closing its doors!To promote their going out of business sale Loome Antiquarian Booksellers in Stillwater, Minnesota has created this trailer featuring vignettes of books acting "out their favorite literary death scenes."The background music is a bit devilish and there is a little too much book violence for my taste but it is a pretty clever piece. Watching it a couple times I couldn't help but think that it seemed too happy, too...
The Guinness Book
Guinness is running a great new ad that ends in a hail of books. The huge domino sequence "culminates with the pages of 10,000 books flipping open to create a giant pint of Guinness."Bravo.Nicole Martin has the scoop on the making of the commercial in her piece in the Telegraph UK.Thanks to Lee Kottner for the lead
Taliban Sexuality
Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak struck visual gold when he came across these photos at a photo studio in downtown Kandahar after the fall of the Taliban. Photographing any living entity was banned under the strict Islamic code of the Taliban yet there is a long history, whether for identification purposes or for pleasure, of the Taliban being photographed."Kandahar, a city of Pashtuns noted for their gaiety, so to speak, where Mullah Omar had made his final headquarters, has traditions of men in high-heeled sandals, with make-up of kohl and painted nails like sultry silent-movie stars. They liked to have their...
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