featuring: The Descriptive Camera by Matt Richardson
 
“The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.”
mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera

freaturing: Laura Veirs, live.

Saw her live at the Old Town School of Folk Music and she was extremely adorable and quirky. She sang the above song, Spelunking, and it was fabulous. Her back-up guitarist sang the Song of Songs, an amalgamation of many songs with three cords in common, including Message in a Bottle by the Police. If anyone can get a good recording, send it to me!

featuring some of my favorite music of 2011:

St. Vincent, Cruel, from the album Strange Mercy

http://youtu.be/Ab2DDmwYVQw

Arcade Fire, Sprawl II, SNL, from the album The Suburbs. Okay, this wasn’t 2011, but when they won the Grammy it was…I just love this song!

featuring: Ruth Asawa

   
These wire sculptures are woven like baskets. I saw some up at the de Young in San Francisco recently. When spot lit, the shadow is as equally interesting as the sculpture itself.

featuring: Haruki Murakami’s latest book, IQ84

I just started the latest from Murakami. Thrilling! Plus, the cover is designed by Chip Kidd with a very cool, but delicate, vellum dust jacket.

featuring: Habibi by Craig Thompson

Craig Thompson’s new book is gorgeously epic!

featuring: Print & Pattern

I just took this book out from the library, and it looks exciting. Here is the description. “Pattern is everywhere…Print & Pattern is a visual celebration of contemporary surface design. Compiled by the creator of the cult blog of the same name (printpattern.blogspot.com), this book documents the work of the best surface designers from around the world and features products that have been embellished with a surface print or pattern.”

featuring: Shea Hembrey

featuring: David Shrigley

I am so excited that David Shrigley is coming to Columbia!
When: Wednesday, September 21, 2011. 6:30 pm
Location: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor
davidshrigley.com

featuring: Papercraft 2 – Book Teaser Video

Here is the “trailer” for a book I found at Powell’s in Portland, Papercraft 2 – Book Teaser Video from Gestalten. Book cover below.