Not Your Ordinary Bookstore
Argentina’s El Ataneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.
Images: El Ataneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.
wols:
2014
screechy noise
SHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIEK
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeS
I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED
WH
man these books were An Event in my life. i should do a reread
#since apparently all i can read is ya books i’ve already read
WHAT. WHAAAAAAT. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
“My local library branch started doing this “Blind Date with a Book” thing, thought you guys might like it. The shelf was full when we got there, but was like this as we were leaving. The books are wrapped in paper and have different designs on them, and then a few words vaguely describing the subject matter of the book. Things like “Drama”, “Plot Twists”, “espionage”, etc. The only thing exposed on the book is the barcode that you use to scan the book out. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.”
Sometimes marketing is not a bad thing at all.
Crystalised Books (2011) - Borax crystals
Alexis Arnold is a sculptor and installation artist interested in the visual displays of time and history. Objects have their own life cycles of accumulation and decomposition. Arnold creates these changes over condensed time frames through catalyzed natural processes, such as crystal growth, forced oxidation, or sun-bleaching, in an effort to see objects in a new way, with a new history. For his ‘Crystalized Books’ series he grows crystals on a selection of books. The books, now frozen with heavy crystal growth, become artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and nostalgia. The crystal growth highlights or creates the aesthetics of these once-utilitarian objects that are entering the world of obsolescence, as well as acts to suggest past and future narratives laden with memory, wonder, and the interminable progression of time, both geologic and on a smaller, more relatable scale.
from StrollerDerby
excerpt:
Steppenwolf
“That looks VERY CREEPY!!!” (My daughter insisted that there be three, exactly three exclamation points). “It looks like it would be scary and very very strange and about creepy things. The story is about a very very hairy eagle who hangs out with fancy ladies.”
Trinity Library, Dublin. The world’s greatest counter argument to the Kindle.
Overcome illiteracy at BofT
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For McAllen, Texas, one man’s abandoned Walmart is another’s public library. It is the largest single-story public library in the country, at a size about equal to 2.5 football fields.
Walmart Abandoned In Texas Renovated Into Chic New McAllen Public Library
