HUM BOOK AND CD AVAILABLE

HUM from Barry Stone on Vimeo.

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16 page full color book and audio CD with 16 minutes of original music created to accompany an exhibition of photographs, drawings, and collage. THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT.

Lakes Were Rivers Book Launch | Saturday, February 19, 2011 at Domy Books, Austin

Image by Leigh Brodie

Domy Books is pleased to present:

Lakes Were Rivers
Book Release Party and Slide Show

Featuring work by:
Adam Schreiber, Anna Krachey, Barry Stone, Ben Ruggiero,
Elizabeth Chiles, Jason Reed, Jessica Mallios, Leigh Brodie,
Mike Osborne, Sarah Murphy, Susan Scafati Shahan

Essay by: Katie Geha

Saturday, February 19, 2011 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

All signed copies of Lakes Were Rivers ($27) will include a print by one of the artists

New Work

My Musent Touch It by Barry Stone |

"Admiration and hatred both reign in the neighborhood regarding my “musent touch it.”"

During his Yosemite summer Adams had grown a mustache, which he here refers to as “my musent touch it.”

This quotation and footnote is excerpted from: Ansel Adams: Letters 1916-1984, Edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Little, Brown and Company, First Paperback Edition, 1988, p.21

This book consists of images of painted reproductions of Ansel Adams' photographs.

SMOKE BATH

Previous images by Nicholas Poillot.

Great project benefiting the Fresh Air Fund curated by Peter Sutherland.

Book available here.

Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher

Robert Hanham, author of the Hipster Handbook offers a think piece on hipsterism, its death, persistence, and relation to materialism.

Via The Morning News

Related tale of hipster intrigue about the "Hipster Grifter" via the New York Observer.

William T. Vollman's Imperial in Pictures

NYT, Monica Almeida

To accompany Vollman's 1200 page tussle,entitled Imperial, with all things Imperial County, CA, the southernmost county in the state, Powerhouse has released a 200 page book of his photographs he took took during his 12 years of research.

Great slide show of Vollman via NYT.

Funny review of the 1200 page tussle via Kottke.