Sneak preview of the beautiful Owl Cave Books opening this week in SF!
We’re almost all set up and ready to go! Thanks to Louisa @luminousbooks and @n_i_b for all your help today! #owlcave #littlepaperplanes
The good folk of McSweeney’s spicing up the sidewalk today opposite 826 Valencia & the Pirate Store!
Luminous Books setting out to explore San Francisco!
So happy to have squeezed in a visit to the wonderful Publication Studio Portland on our way down the west coast!
Luminous is delighted to be part of:
DO YOU? ARE YOU? WILL YOU?
COLLABORATION SPECIAL 2013
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Reprint of Francis Godwin’s ‘The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon…With a description of the Pike of Teneriff, as travelled up by some English merchants’ (1768) crafted today at Publication Studio Vancouver.
Godwin’s ‘Man in The Moone’ is Considered to be one of the first works of Science Fiction and one of the earliest recorded descriptions of weightlessness as Domingo Gonsales ascends to the world in the moon by several large geese or Ganza’s.
There’s more to life than books, but not much more
Public seminar, curated by Benjamin Thorel
Art Metropole, 1490 Dundas Street West, Toronto.
Thursday May 9—Saturday May 11, 2013
Day One: The factory of the book, the situation of collaboration and the redefinition of author and (social) labour related to this.
Day Two: The practices of exchange and distribution and their spaces, “independent” institutions of the book: magazines, niche bookstores, for instance.
Day Three: The question of the public and of reading, along the famous formula according to which: “Publication is the making of a public.” (Matthew Stadler, Publication Studio)
My disintegrating copy of Trout Fishing in America rebound!
