IKEA HEIGHTS!

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

A soap opera about Ikea, set in Ikea, with real customers poking around in the background? Oh, man, I want there to be so many more of these.

ABC3D Pop-up Alphabet Book

A really neat, well-designed pop-up book called ABC3D that I found on Tara Books' website.

100 Year Old Color Photographs of Russia

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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Peasant Girls, 1909.
Digital color rendering.
Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-03984) (4)

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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Mills in Ialutorovsk Uyezd of
Tobol´sk Province, 1912.
Digital color rendering.
Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-03965) (23)

My friend C. A. "Von" E. recently came across this Newsweek collection of early 20th century color photographs from Russia. They are really stunning.

Upon further research, it looks like this was a Library of Congress project-- they took photographer Prokudin-Gorskii's negatives (which he intended to be in color, because he took the photographs using red, green, and blue filters) and converted them digitally. The explaination of the process is really fascinating, and can be read about here. Prokudin-Gorskii's biography is here.

Oh, Library of Congress, how I adore thee.

Stop Smiling Interview with Reif Larsen (The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet)

I've been wanting to read The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet for some time now, and this Stop Smiling magazine Q&A with the author, Reif Larsen, makes me want to read it even more. Marginalia! And he loves Amy Hempel!

Abebooks Weird Book Room

Abebooks.com sent out a recent newsletter, announcing that they've started grouping all of the truly bizarre books that are listed on their site in one place: the Weird Book Room.

All I can say is, "about time" and "good".

Walking on a Dream

Empire of the Sun's Walking on a Dream. It really gets stuck in your head, and the video is craaazzzy.

I can't embed it, but be sure to watch it here.