Posts filed under ‘art’
“Librarian” by Haunted Love
“Librarian” by Haunted Love. Gorgeous video, beautiful song. “Don’t you find me appealing in a nerdy sort of way?” I found out about this song from Marilyn Johnson’s This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. She says: “The song ‘Librarian’ by the New Zealand duo Haunted Love debuted in 2006 with a video featuring two attractive performers suited up as mock librarians, hair pulled back, glasses in place, fingers and feet tapping in disapproval as a patron committed various crimes, like scattering books through the library and sticking gum under a table. The ‘librarians’ lure the culprit into the closed reserves with the promise of new magazines, then crush him between the movable stacks. The video recycled the usual cliches, but at least it was stylishly done.” Thanks, Marilyn Johnson!
Paradoxymoron
Paradoxymoron is a 1996 painting (with a surprise) by Patrick Hughes currently hanging in the basement of the British Library in London. Here’s a video that shows it off nicely. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolaturdocuments graffiti in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Quinn Dombrowski began the project in 2007. It’s now a blog, a book, and a massive collection of photographs. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Unwanted books made into art
OSA Archivum, Budapest, 2007 forward. Book cube, here and Concrete: Books Bound in Concrete, here, more images here; text of opening speech here. (Thanks, Owen Cramer!)
Art installation at Tutt
Tent-like art installation. Tutt Library, Colorado College, November 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/4075063927/ Pictured: Tutt Library director Carol Dickerson.
Gorgeous photographs by Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith’s gorgeous photographs of bound journals in libraries. Various libraries, credited here, ca. 2009. http://www.mickeysmith.com/installations.htm (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Diego Lama's photograph
Photograph by Peruvian artist Diego Lama. Library in Lima, Peru, 2007. http://www.peakradar.com/event/detail/38385 (Thanks, The Big Something!)
Living at the library
Brown Science Library, Brown University, December 2007. http://www.ivygateblog.com/2007/12/brown-student-moves-into-24-hour-library/ Grant Gilles moved into a 24-hour library for about a week. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Library poetry, art, and comics
Library poetry, art, and comics. Snakeskin online magazine, February 2005. http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/111spred.htm With links to a few other library poems available online. The image at left shows Giselle Restrepo’s “The Corset,” made from library check-out cards.
Library Shenanigans 