From Crooked House, via Silliman, for Lauren, who had a similar idea.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Mining the New York Times Archives
September 19 07
TimesSelect, the subscription pay-wall system that has enclosed premium content on The New York Times website for the last two years, expired at midnight last night. The gates have been torn open.
Putting aside the liberated columnists, who I look forward to reading again, the truly great thing about TimesSelect was the access it granted to [...]
Comic Strips and Blog Posts
September 13 07
Illustration Art blogger David Apatoff:
In the course of just 100 intense years, comic art has put on display the personalities of some deeply odd people who have produced truly excellent but Quixotic art—a far higher ratio than would ever surface through art museums.
Why is this? Perhaps the medium combines the privacy for artists to sit [...]
Book, Paper, Scissors
September 12 07
Can’t believe I missed Brian Dettmer in my pompous Book Art All-Stars roundup. He may be my favorite book sculptor of the bunch because he doesn’t add anything to the books or move anything around, he just carves, recontextualizing existing content.
More at the Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery.
Google Book Mashups
September 10 07
Who needs a cut-up machine when you can embed and combine public-domain book-page slices via Google Books?
UPDATE: “Ironics Light and Dark” above had to replaced with “ROBUST RED-BLOODED REALISM” because the 1901 poetry journal I had originally clipped from disappeared from Google’s index. One of the downsides of embeddable book clips. One of the positive [...]
Google Searching Your Bookshelf
September 7 07
Photo: Flickr user gregw
Back in February, I reviewed all the book-oriented social networks I could find and concluded that what I really wanted was a more personalized version of Google Books. The rich related content with which Google surrounds many books is what makes it so valuable. Compare the book information pages for A History [...]