Books

New window display at Amoeba Hollywood...

Our entry in the Edible Book Festival, hosted at the blog Play by the Book. It's an icebox cake version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with layered graham crackers and vanilla pudding (to simulate pages), with a cinnamon-chocolate glaze for the cover, wafer cookies and pretzels for the spine. The cup of Babelfish continues the theme in savory format.

For Lisa C.'s "A Month of Hands" project. Taken 7/13, at Neighborhood Grinds, RB.

Lisa C just started a Flickr group asking artsy-crafty friends to photograph the books that are "inspiring" them recently. I'm not a crafty-book person--I sometimes look at crochet books at the library, at most. But trying to play along: Top book is called "Structural Package Designs" and I use it all the time to make giftboxes and such. The Barbara Hodgson book SHOULD be "The Tattooed Map," but I've lent that to a friend so I used another one--I'm planning to do some vintage architectural images on some purses soon, and thinking about using old maps/photos of Algiers, Morocco, etc. for one of them, so Hodgson's on my mind. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is just there because I love biographical dictionaries, and because a lot of my purses are featuring women's history subjects lately. And the Hannah Frank book is related to a recent art lesson I proposed (didn't get accepted, but there's always next year).

For Lisa C.'s "A Month of Hands" project.

Neighborhood Grinds, 1/27/11.

Play Me I'm Yours Night Circus Left Neglected Among Others IQ84 Improv Sewing (and a desk calendar)

On the new non-fiction shelves, face-out for special attention. Right next to Phyllis Schlafly.