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"Racing Style" by ASSOULINE
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Not cheap but how often can you slap some real rubber on your coffee table? Don't answer that. Discretion is a lost art.
From the site:
Assouline presents an exclusive, deluxe edition of the epic photography book on the legendary Goodwood Race. This unique volume of photos from the Goodwood Revival is packaged in genuine rubber slipcase to add the feel, touch, and smell of an authentic racetrack.
Emanating from a thrilling and glamorous tradition Racing Style is a photographic representation of the Goodwood Revival, a motorcar race of vehicles from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.
The Goodwood Revival relives the glory days of the legendary Goodwood Motor Circuit, Britain’s leading racing venue between 1948 and 1966, and host to contemporary racing of all kinds including Formula One. Racing Style brings us back to the tracks, as they once were, offering all the romance and excitement of original motorcar racing.
This edition celebrates Goodwood through the years with engaging and unusual photos. On each luminous page, the reader is invited to peek at details of the era, from the cockpits of bugattis to the competitors and spectators who dress in period clothing. Racing Style artistically captures all these special memories in a timeless edition devoted to beauty and movement.
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Updated Oct 1, 2008
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The Batman Handbook
3 people recommended this item
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I've already decided that my sidekick will be a midget named Gregory who always rides a unicycle and wears a beret.
Don't judge me.
___________
With sections on “How to Throw a Batarang,” “How to Make a Batsuit,” and “How to Bulletproof Your Batmobile,” this is the ultimate real-world training manual for any aspiring caped crusader. You’ll discover how to:
* Train a Sidekick
* Execute a Backflip
* Survive a Poison Gas Attack
* Throw a Grappling Hook
* plus dozens of other crucial skills
Updated Aug 30, 2008
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Domestic Art: Curated Interiors
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2 people recommended this item
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Another fabulous book by one of my favorite design publishers, Assouline. This edition cavorts through past editions of Paper City and tucks intriguing souvenirs into its pocket to share with the reader. Lovely.
From the site:
Domestic Art: Curated Interiors captures a mind-set, piques a curiosity to look at things anew, appreciate oddities and revel in uniqueness and personal work. It s a loopy but sublime drawing-room comedy with ghosts of dandies and soulful poets and style aesthetes ... all lounging, sipping and chattering away in 18th-century châteaux inserted into downtown lofts, whitewashed shotgun houses filled with Twomblys and Rauschenbergs, and dark-as-a-hedgehog tiny Tudors.
The selected houses in this book were pulled from the pages of PaperCity, from the years 2000 to 2008. Roughly a decade of design alchemy and clinking highballs. The editors of this book foraged for both the musty and gutsy and the soaring and sensual, from a 500-square-foot bedsit to a mid-century organic architectural wonder thirty seven glorious projects, from follies to disciplined mansions, from Dominique and John de Menil s International-style house with its interior by the great couturier Charles James to artist Christian Eckart s abandoned 1940s warehouses polished to gleaming architectural wonder. Marvel at a compound of rescued, early-1900s clapboards, and an 1880s German-immigrant cottage. We ve included a 50s masterwork by the great organic architect Bruce Goff, and an industrial space that crackles with own surreal designs, while a chalet-style 1913 bungalow manifests the best bits and pieces of the past. A turn-of-the-century seaside gingerbread is a study in anthropology peppered with good art; an antiquarian aims his cerebral arrows at Louis this and Louis that, then electrifies it all with saturated color; and an 18th-century château and an old-world hunting lodge is installed in a downtown loft space. Meanwhile, a stylish gent sips scotch neat in his Scotch Room, watched over by two mounted deer, a pheasant and a wildebeest. Shouldn t everyone have a wildebeest ... and a Scotch Room?
Call it what you will: lavish, loopy, eccentric assemblages, moody modernism. All in all, quite a look at a genre of design we call, simply, inspired.
Updated Oct 1, 2008
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
2 people recommended this item
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For those of you not familiar with Douglas Adams, shame on you. Go get this book and a towel. And don't see the movie.
Updated Aug 30, 2008
Lulu: Publish Your Own Book
First to recommend
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A very cool site that lets you design and publish- without set-up fees- your very own book. Whether you fancy yourself a novelist or simply want to put together favorite recipes as a great Christmas gift, this site gives you all the tools you need- free of charge.
Updated Sep 13, 2008
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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are: Rob Walker
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A riveting look at the complex relationship even the most jaded industry insider has with brand allegiance.
Editorial review:
Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Weaned on TiVo, the Internet, and other emerging technologies, the short-attention-span generation has become immune to marketing. Consumers are “in control.” Or so we’re told.
In Buying In, New York Times Magazine “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important and lasting cultural shift. As technology has created avenues for advertising anywhere and everywhere, people are embracing brands more than ever before–creating brands of their own and participating in marketing campaigns for their favorite brands in unprecedented ways. Increasingly, motivated consumers are pitching in to spread the gospel virally, whether by creating Internet video ads for Converse All Stars or becoming word-of-mouth “agents” touting products to friends and family on behalf of huge corporations. In the process, they–we–have begun to funnel cultural, political, and community activities through connections with brands.
Walker explores this changing cultural landscape–including a practice he calls “murketing,” blending the terms murky and marketing–by introducing us to the creative marketers, entrepreneurs, artists, and community organizers who have found a way to thrive within it. Using profiles of brands old and new, including Timberland, American Apparel, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Bull, iPod, and Livestrong, Walker demonstrates the ways in which buyers adopt products, not just as consumer choices, but as conscious expressions of their identities.
Part marketing primer, part work of cultural anthropology, Buying In reveals why now, more than ever, we are what we buy–and vice versa.
Updated Aug 31, 2008
Extreme Office Crafts
3 people recommended this item
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I went through a brief phase where every time someone left me unattended in an office I drew a teeny, tiny phallic doodad somewhere on their calendar. But I've grown up a lot since last year so I welcome the new material offered by this book.
"Relieve cubicle hell with sticky note mosaics or a privacy “curtain” made from key rings and ID tags. Deem yourself Employee of the Month, and craft a glittering crown embellished with colored paper clips and highlighters. Help pass the afternoon with a game of “Boss Phrase Bingo.” From beauty pickups (a correction fluid manicure) to novel ways to get even with an evil co-worker, Extreme Office Crafts is full of fabulous activities that could be considered brilliant exercises of whimsy (or grounds for termination). Tongue-in-cheek, on-location office photography will have readers lol-ing . . . out loud. "
Updated Aug 30, 2008
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
2 people recommended this item
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Catholic school backfired. Sin is in!
—Nikki Beland
One rainy day last spring, I picked this up at my local Barnes and Noble and made my way to the cafe with my two young daughters. Nearly two hours later, we were still sitting at our little corner table, deep in discussion. Six months later, we still bring this book up from time to time.
It's a simple premise- write your memoir in six words- with a provocative punch, an exercise in both humility and humour, aspirations and authenticity. Try it.
From Smith Magazine:
Six-Word Memoirs: The Legend
Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Last year, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking our readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”).
Updated Sep 25, 2008
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70 Japanese Gestures
4 people recommended this item
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I added this book to my collection last year as part of my campaign to restore gesticulating to the art form it once was. I endorse it wholeheartedly and employ what I learned from it with great passion when drinking.
Updated Aug 30, 2008
Superbad -The Drawings
3 people recommended this item
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The penises? Yeah. They're all in here. Fabulous.
Updated Sep 14, 2008
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