When apples attack oranges
In the Huffington Post, Maddie Crum takes a look at this nifty piece of paper gadgetry designed by Kelli Anderson that’s both a book and a camera! More precisely, it is a pop-up, cardboard camera… Read more »
What is “Iterating Grace”, the mysterious chapbook that’s captivating Silicon Valley?
“Crooks himself never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting.” As Alexis Madrigal tells it, the first heard about Koons Crooks, he immediately wondered… Read more »
A dramatic end to the search for the Boston Public Library art prints
A couple weeks ago, we wrote about how two valuable art prints were missing from the collection at the Boston Public Library, with the detectives and law enforcement on the… Read more »
Artisanal pencil store opens in Manhattan
According to Gothamist there is a new artisanal pencil shop now open on the Lower East Side. Of course there would be. I never cease to be amazed at the lengths people go to find things… Read more »
In Holland, book cover judges you
We’ve seen robots that commit homicide and robots that buy Ecstasy on the Dark Net. Now, in the next step toward the inevitable robot uprising, an actual literal Judgement Day, Dutch… Read more »
Ray Bradbury’s weird art collection sells for almost $500,000
Ray Bradbury’s strange and somewhat disturbing collection of sci-fi-inspired art sold at auction last week for $493,408. Bradbury, who passed in 2012, revolutionized science fiction writing and was best known… Read more »
British Library brings its collection of images to Flickr
The British Library has recently taken a sizable chunk of its collection to the internet, Nick Clark writes for the Independent, posting more than a million images on Flickr for… Read more »
London brings literary art to street benches
The city of London is planning to bring some literary art to the streets next summer. In a program being called “Books About Town,” the literary charity the National Literacy… Read more »
John Ashbery’s things
In a recent piece for Hazlitt, Chris Randle takes the opportunity to “gawk at” John Ashbery’s possessions, even as the poetry of the famously “inscrutable elder” remains obscure. John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among… Read more »
One library’s unused card catalog becomes art
Earlier in the summer (and recently noted at The Rumpus), the Recorder of Greenfield, Massachusetts wrote about a community college librarian who saved her library’s card catalog by transforming it. After… Read more »