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at one time I considered myself relatively intelligent...
- that time is long gonehallelujah
- "the more you know..."
*inserts rainbow******** - the stupider you are?hallelujah
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you won't sell the covers? it'd be practically the only thing i'd really be interested in. And as it will probably be the most visually pleasing part of the project, and, by extension, the most pedestrian in terms of approachability, you should sell it for a fortune.
Maybe gauge how the rest of the project fares, then price the covers up by a factor of 10, $10,000.- ha! good point perhaps...
i was thinking they would just become the catalogue...******** - By all means, have a catalogue, but that's for mass consumption. Uniqueness is precious, someone will pay.Greedo
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- still frame;
'the telephone book', 1971
http://www.imdb.com/…******** - reminds me of:
http://4.bp.blogspot…Greedo
- still frame;
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I wonder how many levels are there in the SBT.
Did I just move up one?
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I wonder whether you might consider some kind of exposure campaign about the book project which will create interest in the project which I take to be more conceptual art than protest about the plight of bookstores. ( They can enter the internet market just as easily as the larger stores. I'm guessing but niche dealers are probably doing very well. This is a separate discussion.)
If its is a protest against the greed of the large box stores that could easily be fixed by putting a $100 bill in a book and using twitter to announce the fact that a hundred dollars is in a book at x location. Mayhem.
I think there is something in the exchange of cultural commodity, a book is a perfect example, which is compelling. J.G>Boggs does the exchange value extremely well and efficiently where the exchange itself is the generator of value. I wonder if there would be a way to link your books not just to escalating value but to something else that isolates and forces a context for the objects.
Bookcrossing is interesting and maybe there is something in that where the book is an act of charity and migration. Too bad the books are rendered as tokens. There is something about a bout you love being left for someone, a stranger to find and who's luck is your satisfaction.
You have to get the bookstores to buy into the plan. Or would you? No, you could do it w/o their involvement.Doing the project alone is difficult. You need some assistants. This validates whatever you do and dampens suspicion.
- I confess I sometimes sign books on the shelf in a bookstore. I make up a dedication, and sign it.Eau_chap
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JSG Boggs
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interesting point on the exchange-value... i will consider.
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I ponder about the projects.
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Frankie, how are the projects going? Did you manage to figure out the camera?
- did pick up another 6 books
at the recycled book shop
yesterday********
- did pick up another 6 books
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MrDinky--i've been in sleepy Toronto since Wednesday for the sister's book-launch, and only returning to the real city on Saturday; medium-format fun begins then... :)
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Perfect.
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"Sans le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France."
- le bon (sens de) voltaire********
- 1789: 50 restaurants
1814: 3000 restaurants
ParisEau_chap
- le bon (sens de) voltaire
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