Book Autopsies

October 23, 2007 – 10:49 pm

Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion.
awesome, book, books, art, sculpture

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Are You A Certified Asshole?

May 18, 2007 – 12:25 pm

Sure it’s a promo for his new book, but Bob Sutton is offering us all a chance to see if we’re assholes with the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE).
After 24 questions like ?You secretly enjoy watching other people suffer and squirm? (hey, what’s wrong with a little schaedenfreud?) you’ll find yourself placed somewhere on the scale [...]

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Two Ton: One Night, One Fight

October 20, 2006 – 10:19 am

Tony Day is June 28th, but today is the day I received my copy of Joe Monninger’s latest work, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. Joe Louis.
I learned a lot about the characters and times during the two years of research Joe invested in the book, but other than sneaking peaks [...]

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longest book title ever

August 21, 2006 – 2:48 am

Geography Made Easy : Being An Abridgement Of The American Universal Geography, Containing Astronomical Geography, Discovery And General Description Of America, General View Of The United States, Particular Accounts Of The United States Of America, And Of All The Kingdoms, States And Republics In The Known World, In Regard To Their Boundaries, Extent, Rivers, Lakes, [...]

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And We’re Discarding This?

May 20, 2006 – 2:41 pm

I read enough of this to get a good laugh, but not enough to understand if it was serious or not. Some of it reads like satire, but other parts as are dry as, well, they’re dry (who really needs a simile anyway, they’re just dry, okay?).

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Zhang Huan’s ?My Boston?

April 7, 2006 – 12:09 pm

Most people may recognize Zhang Huan from his ?My New York? work that had him dressed in a beefy muscle suit. Above is ?My Boston,? but I have a feeling it might get repurposed elsewhere during finals this spring to represent the agony of study.
Ups to Ryan for the pointer.
art, book, books, boston, fine art, [...]

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Getting Things Done, And Feeling Okay About It

April 3, 2006 – 9:03 pm

[The pictures tell this story, click through to see.] How’s a guy supposed to feel when his manager gives him a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done?

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Book Flower

December 20, 2005 – 8:05 pm

library, libraries, book, books, page, pages, book leaf, open book, flower, art, photo, library mistress, black and white, b and w

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Art Deco Hair

June 25, 2005 – 1:33 am

Daniela Turudich knows vintage fashion. Her books include not only hair, but how to recreate a vintage wedding, vintage recipes and candy making, and Beauty Secrets of History’s Most Notorious Courtesans.
Here’s the description from Art Deco Hair:
Art deco has long been associated with uncompromising style and sophistication, and this guide to recreating the sassy, controversial [...]

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Overheard In The Library

June 22, 2005 – 1:33 am

?I want all the books that I’m interested in on one shelf.?

tags: book, books, libraries, library, read, reading

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The Mystifying Aroma Of Rot

June 12, 2005 – 1:34 am

I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread):
That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books [...]

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