Book@rts, a Journal of Advanced Publishing Concepts Contents: http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts
Several years ago, I announced Book@rts, a Journal of Advanced Publishing Concepts, which I said mainly consisted of my own work and would be expanded later on. Well, later on is here. It's still all written by me (and mostly about me), but at least I do glance at the work of other authors.
In "Digital Incunabula" I discuss how digitally-produced books can be book art (or at least my kind of book art). I'm interested in content as a visual statement. Can a print-on-demand book be considered book art? Look at my work and decide for yourself.
The story about Gordon Inkeles' latest product, "Sensual Massage on a String," raises some questions about what a book is or can be. Were Gordon a book artist, we'd probably have no problems. He wants to call his work a deck. I call it a book -- because I am a book reviewer. We book reviewers don't do decks. Either way, it's a genuinely useful product that is definitely a book-like work by an artist.
Gordon Inkeles was so happy with the story (link below) -- the first, he said, ever to take him seriously -- that he wanted to put out a press release. Oops. It was rejected by PRWeb.com because of a link to an ADULT image! Can you believe that, folks? So you prudes out there better stop right here because the offending picture is on the front page of Book@rts. The Sun has nothing on us.
Umm. Well, I decided that discretion is the better part of valor. These Anti-Sex League non-judicial activists can get real nasty in their struggle against Internet fleshpots like Book@rts. Trembling fearfully, I put a big CENSORED on the offending picture(s), but you can click through and see what the American Interfaith Non-Violent (I hope) Taliban Movement considers too shocking for your sensitive eyes.
At http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/gordon_inkeles/censored.shtml you will find the letter that I wrote about this outrage to David A. McInnis, Chief Executive Officer of PRWeb.com.
I cordially invite you to look over my current offering. I eagerly await any submissions, too. There's no payment (of course), but you will have the thrill of being published by Book@rts, a major consideration I'm sure.
Book@rts, a Journal of Advanced Publishing Concepts
Contents: http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts
Gordon Inkeles and the Sensual Revolution of the 1970s
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/gordon_inkeles/index.shtml
I can still remember the exhilaration I felt in 1972 the first time I saw Gordon Inkeles' visually and socially revolutionary book "The Art of Sensual Massage."
Digital Incunabula
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/digital.shtml
Incunabula are works from the earliest days of printing -- "of the cradle." Today, we're in the cradle era of new forms of publishing that change the way people are making books and thinking about books.
Deconstructing Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/thompson.shtml
Was he the literary version of Cheech and Chong?
The Inquisition Strikes Back
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/guantanamo.shtml
One of the prisoners was an old incontinent man supporting himself on a walker as he wandered the Guantánamo prison yard weeping.
Tabletop Publishing
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/desktopbooks.pdf
How to make a paperback book on your kitchen table with common household tools and materials. You'll need Adobe Reader (free download) to view this illustrated story.
A Minor Miracle in Oaxaca, 1982
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/miracle.shtml
"See, Don Julio, here are the screens," Chalo said. Lalo beamed positive ratification. Sodden ashes of doubt began smothering the anxious fire in my chest. It was clear they hadn't seen screens in this shop in many a year.
Sponsor: Cancun User's Guide 2005
http://www.cafecancun.com
The first edition (1995) of the Cancun User's Guide was probably the first book written, designed, printed and bound in Cancun. To get a feeling of what that was like, read the story above.