MORE BOOKS for Everyone

MORE BOOKS went up on 20x200.com yesterday. An interview went up on the 20x200 blog today. I love working with Jen Bekman and her crew and highly recommend this experience to any artist. This sort of instant gratification is hard to come by working alone in the studio... 

"We are upstate with mom + bob now. Just made mom run to town so I could log in here at McDonalds to get a piece of art... I GOT THE LAST ONE! [$20]"

"Gorgeous, funny and I bought. In fact, I was driving from Witchita to St. Louis on my way to NY and bought on my iPhone on the side of the road. See you Nov 14."

"OMG. I SO didn't mean to buy it, but it was just so fucking turquoise. I couldn't resist. Damn you!"

More thanks to everyone who snatched up a print! Hope to see you all at Invisible-Exports on November 14th!

It's Google Stoopid

In the process of working on the Volume project, I have seen my subjects start to slip away into storage, deep storage, and in recent months, into dumpsters. Despite the prevalence of the Internet, people are often shocked to hear the books are actually being taken from their shelves. As Nicholson Baker told us the way of the bound newspapers in Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper , Nicholas Carr has written a new book I can't wait to read. In the first few paragraphs Atlantic article he sets the stage from his personal experience as a writer, "Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes." The book is called The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. 

Volume on iGoogle

Thanks to The Webmomster, a Volume theme can now be downloaded from iGoogle. To use it on your search page, follow the instructions here. I'll write a bit more about the timely irony of this marriage and the Atlantic's "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" July cover article another time. Until then, Nicolas Carr's article is worth a read.