Filed under: Books, Interesting Tidbits, Photos | Tags: Hand Bookbinding, Smythe Sewing Machine, Stanley Book press, Taurus Bookbindery, Vintage machinery
Stanley Book Press c. 1920’s
Smythe Sewing Machine c. 1870’s
Signatures after being sewn by the Smythe. 140 years later it still works well. This machine is incredible.
Singer Sewing Machine
Filed under: Books, Photos | Tags: Book Cloth, San Francisco, Taurus Bookbindery
Filed under: Books, Interesting Tidbits | Tags: Book cover art, Daniel Mróz, Liars Underneath the Golden Anchor
http://50watts.com/#1200974/Infinite-Hatch-The-Book-Covers-of-Daniel-Mr-z
Filed under: Books, Happenings, Photos, Prints | Tags: Café Delmarette, First Friday, frames, Kenneth Srivijittakar, Monsters Never Die, Newfangled Bygones, painting, prints, santa cruz, wine labels
New Fangled Bygone’s opening at the Café Delmarette. After an intense week of tying up loose ends (that kept manifesting themselves) Ari and I (Alexandra) got our prints up on the wall and heaved a big sigh of relief when we could finally sit back, enjoy the reception.
Handmade Book Table
One corner of the Café displaying three out of six prints
Mingling of folk
A BIG thank you to Melody for setting up the show, supporting our idea and giving much needed advice throughout the process. And a BIG thank you to Kenny for all things frame related.
Monsters Never Die. A collection of art by Kenneth Srivijittakar. What a beautiful show!
The owner of the exhibition space made wine labels out of Kenny’s work. It was so rad!
Kenny, Alexandra, Ari
Monsters in beautiful handmade frames.
Filed under: Books, Happenings, Prints | Tags: art opening, bookbinding, Café Delmarette, New Fangled Bygones, printmaking, santa cruz, Verve Coffee
A wee collection of prints and handmade books by Ari Bird and Alexandra Jane Williams will be up for display at the lovely Café Delmarette for the month of March. Come enjoy treats for the eyes and stomach at our opening reception on Friday the 4th! Also, support this rad local coffee shop; they have delicious food, pastries and Verve coffee!
Café Delmarette… 1126 Pacific Avenue Santa Cruz CA 95060
Friday March 4th, 4pm-6pm
Filed under: Books, Interesting Tidbits | Tags: Ava Sayaka Rosen, Handmade book, Japanese stab binding, poetry, woodcut
The Color of Bone is a collection of ten poems by Ava Sayaka Rosen compiled into a beautiful handmade book. The form of the book follows the concept of the work as a whole. Long and narrow, the poems evoke the verticality of the human spinal chord woodcut that adorns the front cover. To further solidify this idea, the japanese stab binding offers yet another accent of spinal-like verticality. And to top it off, the poems are amazing!
Cover: woodcut, Japanese stab binding
Inside cover
“Jib”
Filed under: Books, Happenings, Interesting Tidbits, Uncategorized | Tags: black hole, bookshop santa cruz, cartoonist, charles burns, comic book, santa cruz, x-ed out
Cartoonist Charles Burns visited Bookshop Santa Cruz yesterday to welcome the release of his latest book “X-ed Out”, the first in a surreal, mashed-up, and entirely epic trilogy. Burns is an intriguing speaker who successfully balances the fine line between remaining mysterious and divulging enough details about his work, past, and artistic process. He is one of my favorite graphic artists/illustrators/writers, and I turned SO RED when I got to meet him, tell him thank you for coming to Santa Cruz, and that I LLLOOOVVEE HIMM!!! (Luckily that very last detail DID NOT past through my lips, but trust me, it was difficult to hold back)
Above: Doug, the drugged protagonist. Below: “X-ed Out’s” book cover: Tin-Tin-meets Naked Lunch (two conspicuous influences Burns himself menitons)
Filed under: Books, Uncategorized | Tags: 1924 Ansco camera, Ansco camera, apocalypse, artist bok, ethiopian coptic, Japanese stab binding, satanism, zombies
-Created by Ari Bird,2009. Contains two wee Ethiopian-Coptic bound books, a scroll book in the back, a Japanese stab bound journal, & hidden notes/trinkets
Filed under: Books, Interesting Tidbits | Tags: 1961, cinderella, dames, detective, how to catch 5000 thieves, insurance detective, little red riding hood, novel, winnies
This weekend, in my San Francisco hotel room, I unearthed an intriguingly cheesy 1961 book that catalogs the true occurrences of an oh-so-cunning insurance detective.
Quote from the chapter entitled ‘There is No Thief Like a Dame’: “Rogers and Hammerstein made no error at all when they wrote “There’s nothing like a dame!”. It goes triple when the Cinderellas with claws and the Little Red Riding Hoods with guns in their pockets, these wide-eyed Winnies with larceny in their hearts run to all types, from the beautiful and damned to the ugly and the ridiculous.”
Two Queries: Was that a run-on sentence? and “Winnies”?
-Ari
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