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Extra-Alphabetical Ordering Systems
Aaron Britt at Dwell Magazine discusses their research office’s practice of organizing books by color.
We’ve organized our bookshelf by color for some time here at Dwell. And to be fair, it looks great. As visitors pass the design wall, the current issue of the magazine tacked up in its unbound state, they’re met with a rack of chromatic harmony. Hell, we even put a picture of the shelf in the March 08 issue of the magazine.
Includes a link to Design Observer’s discussion of various organizational systems for books as well as some images of San Francisco’s Adobe Bookstore much-publicized by-color experiment.
(Personally, I don’t have much of an organizational system beyond saying,
I think it’s on campus.
if I’m at home and
I think it’s at home.
if I’m on campus. If I were actually organized, I’d shift to the by-color method because I can usually visualize the cover of what I’m looking for.
[via http://www.dwell.com/]
Singing Fingers
[via Designboom]
WTSC Radio c. 1968 + 1972
When alumnus Ted Perkins visited Clarkson in 1968 and 1972, he brought his video camera to WTSC and WNTC, the student-run radio stations where he used to work. He has some additional footage that includes a station promo in the soundtrack.
[ via wtsc news ]
KEXP Album Review Archive
KEXP’s Review Revue is scanning and posting the little sticker-based LP reviews that their DJs taped to albums added to the station’s collection. Ranging from Paul Simon’s Graceland to Sonic Youth’s Goo and more. The brevity and small size of the notes makes them amenable to hosting conversations among DJs posted in series, an antecedent to weblog comment communities. Above is the nearly filled cover of Lou Reed’s New York, which split the community a little:
“This doesn’t deserve H. It’s not lighting up my phones. I’d much rather play ‘This Gift’ than this 2nd rate MTV trend scooter music. So there.”
“Oh Phil, you are such a rock historian. Slip on an Aerosmith disc, maybe ‘Rocks’ or ‘Toys in the Attic’ next you’re spazzin’ over the ‘latest guitar thang.”
“Take a listen! ‘Endless Cycle’ is great! Lou & his many hats (+ cigarettes)!”
“The listeners on NNTNBT loved this disc.”
“Besto!!”
“Contrived anger for the masses.”
[Via metafilter.com]
Time as Space in Comics
Yves Bigerel takes on the thorny issue of comics as new media. Simultaneously very simple and very interesting. Rather than attempting to absorb all of the media available in new media (that way lies animation and cartoons), Bigerel channels and extends McCloud to create what amounts to a user-controlled slideshow. Surprisingly, it works.
[via HTLit]
Cut Up
Christian Verdun’s cut-up collage of Lincoln’s assassination is composed, Burroughs-fashion, of text from magazines. You’ll want to check the Flash version, which allows for zooming, in order to read some of the text. Too cool.
See this page for some background, links to several news articles, and print ordering info.
