Enjoy the world of books while it's still here
Apt Studio and Asylum Films put together this great stop-motion film, called "This Is Where We Live," to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of 4th Estate Publishers in the U.K. It's easily the best book-related video we've seen in a while, and not just because it's the only book-related video we've seen in a while (not counting the Art Spiegelman thing from McSweeney's). All that's really missing here is a Godzilla-like Kindle character rampaging through town, setting everything alight and handing out e-book coupons. See lots more over at the film's Web site. |
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March 5, 2009 in 4th Estate, Apt Studio, Asylum Films, Nudd | Permalink |
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Books are great. You can read them when the power goes out and your laptop's battery dies. They have survived radio, the movies, and TV. Print will never go away, so long a there are people on this old rock.
Posted by: Rich | Mar 5, 2009 4:48:21 PM
I found that ad rather bland, but it did point up one aspect of the world of books that's hard to articulate. Books as artifacts have a solidity and a known form. There is a place in your brain for the object marked 'book'. There can be artistry in the physical form of a book. The great writers and their great works have their own quarters in the town, or on your bookshelf. A bookshelf of great books is as exciting to one who knows them well, their greatest hits and misses, as a hockey team made up of the greatest players in history.
I spend a lot of time on the Internet and am sometimes depressed by the impermanence, the mutable forms, the chaos. It's like listening to or being part of a conversation where someone is constantly interrupting. Imagine trying to get the points in Crime and Punishment or The Prince across while someone is breaking in with goatse flashes. eBooks are evolving to mimic the physical novel, but they don't yet have their place in my mental town, and maybe this is part of the reason.
Posted by: High On Markers | Mar 5, 2009 5:10:19 PM
Very cool.
Posted by: J | Mar 6, 2009 5:05:36 PM
