If you read this blog there’s a chance you’re coming to Portland for PLA 2010 later this month. I’m happy to call Portland home and thought I’d share some places you might enjoy visiting while in town. I have no idea where people are staying but I hope you can get away from [...]
Author Archives: Aaron Schmidt
Library of Dust
15 Mar 10 – 1:00 am
An art project from David Maisel:
Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by [...]
Harland Miller’s Penguin Covers
12 Mar 10 – 2:00 am
Speaking of book covers, I saw a few of Harland Miller’s enormous fictional Penguin book cover paintings in Rotterdam the other week. My favorite one is “Wake Up and Smell the Coffin” also by Poe but I couldn’t find a good image.
Buckram Bindings at MCL
12 Mar 10 – 1:00 am
Caleb Tucker-Raymond’s curiosity was piqued by books covered in Buckram cloth at Multnomah County Library:
From some point after its incoporation to the early 80s, the Library Association of Portland, which later became Multnomah County Library, operated its own bindery. Besides visually and texturally uniting runs of periodicals and sets of reference books on the [...]
Book Themed Cafe
11 Mar 10 – 1:00 am
A nice book themed cafe at McNally Jackson Books in NYC.
via super relax
