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This page is for my own personal reference.

That said, You can download the PDFs by clicking on the scan of the publication cover. All of the publications included are believed to be out of print, hard to find, and in some cases unique, rare or exceedingly expensive to purchase on the secondary market

This content has been re-blogged from http://www.publiccollectors.org for my own personal use. It’s a great site and I highly recommend visiting and supporting it. Please contact me if this pisses you off in any way.

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Not that there is anything wrong or illegal about simply linking to files.

With that in mind…

Link removed by request of the publisher.

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black,

1990, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series, New York, 154 pages, offset, perfect bound.

Buy this book here.

It has come to my attention that linking to the PDF version of this book on this site is probably  losing the publishers millions of dollars in revenues. I have thus removed it as I wouldn’t want to take bread out of someone’s mouth. Click the link above instead to buy it.

Somehow, this publisher found this blog and jumped all over me. It’s only a PDF. It’s hardly going to get 10 million downloads. But anyway, in the interests of good faith…

It’s gone! Kaput! Poof! Not only that and because I’m a very reasonable person, I have added a HUGE LINK – TWICE to the place where you can buy the book!

YAY! We are all happy now, right?

I copied these links from public collections .org. It is not my intention to breach any copyright laws in any way. I’m also positive that public collections.org are also not intentionally breaking any copyright laws.

None of these publications are stored on this server. So I’m not intentionally breaking any laws linking to them as I am under the impression that they are not protected by copyrights (as stated by the original site’s information). A lot of these publications are out-of-print, one offs or extremely rare. My intention is to help supply an archive of this material. The last thing I want to do is piss anyone off.

If they are protected by copyright, still in print or my linking to them simply annoys you in some way, then obviously I will remove these links immediately. I think that people have a right to earn money from their work. So please let me know.

So once again.

Buy this book here.

Black Is…, by Martin Dreyer

1971, 68 pages, Lawrence Field & Associates, Inc., New York, 8 1/4 ” X 11 1/4″

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Black Is… is a photo-heavy magazine celebrating several generations of key figures in black history across many fields and disciplines. It includes black athletes, musicians, politicians, writers and revolutionaries. The magazine is particularly enjoyable for the many photos sourced from United Press International that are accompanied by short biographies. From the introduction by Dreyer: “In these pages you see some of the many blacks who have made the breakthrough, who say with hope and compassion to their brothers and sisters: “Follow me. The only way we can go from here is up.”"

Black Theatre – A Periodical of the Black Theatre Movement

#5, 1971, 60 pages, The New Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, New York, 8 3/8″ X 10 3/4″

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Black Theatre was a publication of the Black Arts Movement. According to the Wikipedia entry on the movement, six issues of this publication were produced between 1969-72. This is issue number 5. It includes writings, discussions, art, poetry, and essays by many of the key figures in this deeply influential and radical movement. Included in this issue: Yusef Alhakk, Peter Bailey, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sebastiane Clarke, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Roger Furman, Nathan Hare, Maulana Ron Karenga, Woodie King Jr., Kushauri Kupa, Robert Macbeth, James F. Madison, Theora Makeda, Marcia McBroom, Ademola Olugbefola, Theima Oliver, Roscoe Orman, Paulette Perrier, Roberta Raysor, Clayton Riley, Michael Schultz, Delano A. Stewart, Richard Wesley, Dick Williams, Julia Wright, Golden X, and Marvin X.

The Messenger

Summer 1972, Vol. 57, No. 2, 40 pages, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 8 1/8″ X 10 5/8″

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The Messenger was a quarterly periodical published by and for the men of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the permission of the warden. “The purpose of this magazine is to give the inmates an opportunity for self expression, to provide them a medium of discussion of public problems, to foster better understanding between inmates and the general public, and to be constructively informative.”

How To Build A Beer Can Mortar

Delta Press Ltd, 1977, 8 pages, El Dorado, Arkansas, 8 1/2 ” X 11 sheets folded into half-letter size envelope

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This packet contains plans to build a beer can mortar for purposes of safe entertainment and enjoyment. This device is not a mortar with a barrel made from a beer can, as assumed at first, but rather a more heavy-duty device designed to fire beer cans filled with sand or gravel up to 500 yards. As the literature itself states: “We can assume no responsibility for the manner in which the enclosed information is used.” Don’t hurt yourself or others!

Zone V Fanzine/Photozine 

issue 1, 1983, 48 pages, Jim Saah, Wheaton, Maryland, 7 1/2 ” X 11″

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This is the first of a total of two issues of Zone V that were published. This offset ‘zine has a spare layout that is packed with Jim Saah’s excellent photos of some of the greatest American hardcore bands of this period. Bands included are: Black Flag, Minor Threat (see cover), Hate from Ignorance, Insurrection, Heart Attack, Naked Raygun, Marginal Man, Faith, Void, Flipper, The Meatmen, Circle Jerks, Channel Three, Government Issue, Nig-Heist, Negative Approach, and Scream. Also included are interviews with Henry Rollins from Black Flag and Tesco Vee of The Meatmen, a New York scene report written by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Detroit and Los Angeles scene reports, and a Minor Threat family tree.

Parsons Bread Book

1974, 76 pages, Harper & Row, New York, 8 1/2 ” X 11″

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From the front cover: “A celebration of the art of baking bread and the great bakers of New York City by students at Parsons School of Design who made this book.” Made by David Blumenthal, Vicky Coleman, Chris Grana, Sherry Gutberlet, Peter Mattes, Ed Mazzola, Fran Rappaport, Dot Scott, Carolyn Sievers, Pat Valle, Bonnie Weber, and Cipe Pineless Burtin, faculty. This book started as a student publication produced over three months in 1973 and was produced as a yearbook for the school that “was representative of student interests and values without being strictly autobiographical.” This edition was published by Harper & Row for a wider audience. Thanks to the blog Gravel & Gold who posted about this book and brought it to my attention, which compelled me to find a copy and scan it.

Author unknown, untitled

circa mid-late 1990s, 22 pages, self-published collection of photocopies, 8 1/2″ X 11″

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This PDF of a document that was originally hand-written and photocopied, is filled with stream of consciousness writings on everything from bible passages and church experiences to speculations on the names of various businesses including multiple storage facilities and Pizza Hut. Constantly disrupting the writing are searches for words within words. It is a text that will test the patience of most, however its density and extremism have an unsettling power.

The donor of this PDF, Giles Hefferan, writes, “The manifesto was given to a friend of mine somewhere around 1997 or 98 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A man who was presumably the author came in to my friend’s workplace and handed her a copy and said something like ‘you might want this’, almost apologetically. It was photocopied and I made more copies and gave them to my friends— as far as I know it is complete, at least since I have had it, but I know that it appears to be missing pages and sometimes repeats page numbers.”

Stephen Gaskin, Hey Beatnik! This is the Farm Book

1974, 104 pages, The Book Publishing Co.

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This PDF is a collaboration between Public Collectors and The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-Make the World. Public Collectors provided the book and scan and Let’s Re-Make wrote the following description:

The Farm is a long running intentional community near Summertown, Tennessee, in the south central part of the state. It sits on 1700 acres and estimates of the current population range from 175-200 people. The Farm was started in 1971 by Hippies who migrated from San Francisco, making the trek in a large iconic caravan, to rural Tennessee. They were following Stephen Gaskin, a charismatic hippie whose “trips” – he later calls them “visions” – provided the spiritual connection that he and many others were looking for in building a place like the Farm.

This book, written by Stephen Gaskin after 2 years of living at the Farm, gives you a good sense of the values and the activities of the people, at this point around 600, that lived there. The book chronicles their caravan, which took 7 months to land them in their current locale. It wasn’t an easy journey and the book lays out some of the problems they encountered. It chronicles their growing awareness of farming and raising their own food, their interaction with neighbors, especially older farmers who they found out were an incredible resource of practical information about agricultural practices in the region.

The book encourages others to follow and make their own situations by sharing information and experiences in an open and direct manner. The book today is a study in the groundwork for an intentional community. Page 15 is devoted to enumerating exactly how many acres had to be used to generate the produce needed to sustain their population for one year. There are pages on raising horses, their communal system of banking, building methods, healthy eating, home birthing, and some idiosyncratic gems like “tripping instructions.” This is not what you think and has nothing to do with drugs; those are are covered later in the book. Rather “tripping instructions” describe the interactions and relationships of Farm folks. The people of the Farm valued truthfulness, as they saw it, and challenging each other on their shortcomings. This page lets a visitor at that time know a little of what to expect from the people who lived there.

Large parts of Hey Beatnik! are written in Hippy-speak. Changing language to more accurately reflect a culture shift and create a revolution was a popular strategy at the time, and one held dear by the Farm community. The language shouldn’t distract you from the very serious, and continuing, utopian experiment these folks undertook. The Farm is well known for many things, among them the incredible amount of work they have done on home birthing (see Spiritual Midwifery (Click title), by Ida May Gaskin). You can visit the Farm today. They offer classes in midwifery, permaculture, eco-village building and more.

Author unknown, ABC

undated, 20 pages, unique hand-made book, 4 1/2 ” X 6″.

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This delicate hand-made book was found amid a pile of papers, scrapbooks and old homework assignments from the mid-late 1930s at a flea market in Rosemont, Illinois. It is an alphabet book, with a hand-written bible quote to reference each hand-cut collaged letter. Additional collaged images are included in the margins. I’m guessing that the handwriting inside is by an adult who helped with this collaboration/indoctrination.

Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center And Negative Media Engram Abreaction Release Zone

1992, 40 pages, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 5 1/2 ” X 8 1/4 “.

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This 1992 booklet for a collaborative exhibition is designed more like an artist book. There is an essay by Timothy Martin, along with CVs for both artists and illustrations of their individual works, however the most unique feature is the collection of source photos that inspired this project. Among the sources are images from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an Otto Dix painting, a tattoo design and Austrian kitsch.

Elsie Svennas , A Handbook of Lettering for Stitchers

1973, 100 pages, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 8″ X 5 5/8 “.

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A real treat for stitchers and lovers of lettering! From the inside cover flap: “The Author has set out in this book with three distinct aims. Firstly to write a concise history of Lettering, tracing the development from the simplest markings to the elaborate and decorative monogram. Secondly, to give an an illustrated dictionary of all stitches that are suitable for carrying out any lettering. Finally to display in an illustrated section the great variety of lettering designs suitable for various stitches using every letter of the alphabet as examples.”

Robert Chenoweth, Latina Cotidiana

1940?, unique publication, 42 pages, handwritten with various collaged elements, cover: 8 1/2″ X 10 1/2″. interior pages: 7 1/2″ X 9 1/2″.

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This publication is clearly an ambitious student’s homework assignment – one of four different assignments that I acquired by the same author at a flea market in Chicago. Its subject is ancient Roman culture and Latin. What makes this brad-bound piece particularly enjoyable is the use of many collaged elements from various books and newspapers. The numerous clippings, some of which date from 1940, either show examples of Roman history and historical figures, or are used to note examples of Latin, or English words derived from Latin. A variety of popular sources of images and text are employed, ranging from comic strip panels to newspaper ads.

Advertising Matchbooks and Matchless Games

1977?, Lion Match Corporation of America, Chicago, 52 pages, offset with tipped in matchbook covers, 8 1/2″ X 11″.

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This unusual, richly illustrated publication appears to be a sales catalog for Lion Match Corporation of America. It features numerous matchbook designs and a great trove of old line art and matchless game graphics. The publication also includes over fifty actual matchbook covers that are tipped in to display the range of styles and possibilities that customers could take advantage of to advertise their business or service. Matchcovers.com identifies the company as such: “Lion Match Co. — Located in Chicago, IL, known in later years as Lion Corporation of America. It originally started business in 1917, in Brooklyn, NY, and began using the Safety First footer wording in 1922. Today, this company produces a general advertising specialty line. It ceased primary matchcover production in 1995, but still produces advertising specialities.”

John Lidstone & Clarence Bunch, Working Big: A Teacher’s Guide to Environmental Sculpture

1975,Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 100 pages, offset, 8 1/8″ X 9 1/4″.

[Click image to download. 38.8 meg PDF file]

This exciting guide applies some of the ideas of artists and writers like Ant Farm, Otto Piene and Willoughby Sharp to large scale art projects that can be executed with children. A pull quote from the back cover …”Children who have the opportunity to work together with large-scale materials are more likely to have meaningful, in-depth experiences than those whose background has been restricted to participation in small-scale classroom activities. …A school should recognize that (such projects are) not only a logical extension of the classroom curriculum but also a way that students can become involved with art forms that are relevant to the world they live in.”

Wayne Mazurek, Sketchbook

circa 1997-2000, 54 pages, marker and pencil on paper, 8 1/2″ X 11″.

[Click image to download. 41.1 meg PDF file]

Wayne Mazurek’s primary creative focus is to design concept cars of the near future. With great care, he contemplates automotive history and renders his ideas for future models. These drawings fill sketchbooks that are used not merely for private reflection, but as a social tool to provoke dialogue about car design with others. Mazurek engages in these dialogues with people who drive cars as well as representatives of car manufacturers themselves who Mazurek sometimes meets at auto shows in Chicago. Generally Wayne is thinking ahead only several years into the future, so while this sketchbook is undated, I would guess that these models from 1999 to 2002 were drawn between 1997 and 2000. This publication differs from others that have been featured on this website thus far, in that it is a unique work rather than a publication produced in multiple. However, given the energy with which Wayne Mazurek attempts to share his work with new people that he meets, it feels appropriate to include his sketchbook and extend his drawings via the internet. Additional works by Mazurek can be viewed here: http://www.littlecityarts.org/pages/wayne_mazurek/51.php

Ken Isaacs, How To Build Your Own Living Structures

1974, Harmony Books, New York, 137 pages, offset, spiral bound

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This high resolution scan was donated by the The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-Make the World. They write: “This book is a beautiful guide about how to make a variety of flexible experimental indoor interiors, storage units, and a microhouse. The microhouse is a flexible creation of architect, Ken Isaacs. The modular design is based on stacked tetrahedrons, which can be moved in and around each other providing shelter and dividing living space in a creative way. The book gives you step-by-step instructions with plans for many different versions of Isaac’s original designs interspersed with ideas about simplicity, and getting rid of our personal possessions. The book is type written and spiral round in a nice Do-It-Yourself aesthetic, and Isaacs writes in a genial manner as if he were sitting across the table from you. He muses on the philosophical meanings of surplus and uses the designs as a means of addressing life as whole; a simple place to raise a family and house extended family that has a low impact on the surrounding natural environment.” Thanks to Let’s Remake, and Sarah Lewison who lent them her copy for scanning, for sharing this.

U.S. Border Patrol Museum, El Paso, Texas

Undated, 16 pages, offset

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A coloring and activity booklet for children of all ages where, among other things, readers get to meet Koroc, the dog from Holland that searches for people and illegal drugs. Good luck completing the word finds and the maze! Thanks to Deborah Stratman for the gift of this publication.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum Cards for the Hearing Impaired

1979, The Art Institute of Chicago, 78 pages, offset, loose cards in paper wrapper.

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Did you ever want to know how to say “Museum”, “Abstract” or “Gallery” in sign language? This flash card set, intended for a general introductory visit, will show you how. This card set, which was scavenged from a dumpster at the Art Institute about ten years ago, features an enjoyable collection of rudimentary drawings that attempt to convey the most basic essentials of the museum and the field of art, in addition to providing an interesting lesson in signing.

Michalis Pichler, hearts

2008, Michalis Pichler, AGRA, and Revolver, Germany and Athens, 220 pages printed, offset, perfect bound.

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This book is a playful examination by German artist Michalis Pichler who has an affinity for trash. In the past he has documented patriotic garbage – with a special interest in Pizza boxes bearing American flag imagery. In this book Pichler focuses his camera on the heart symbol, photographing garbage bearing this image and, perversely, the space on the ground occupied by the garbage after it has been picked up. In case that isn’t enough, Pichler also transcribes every bit of text on each item and presents it in clinical typed reproduction on the opposite page. Special thanks to Michalis for providing Public Collectors with a PDF of the digital layout from the book. More of Michalis Pichler’s work can be seen at www.buypichler.com.

Jean Toche, I Accuse

March 26 – April 9, 1968, Gallerie Le Zodiaque, Brussels, 20 pages, offset, staple bound.

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A rare catalog from an early solo exhibition by Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG). This booklet documents Toche’s little-known aggressive light environments. The catalog, which is also a kind of artists’ book, features text in English and French. Thanks to Jean Toche for allowing Public Collectors to incude a scan.

Douglas Huebler

May 8 – June 14, 1970, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 24 pages, offset, staple bound.

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An obscure exhibition catalog that artist Douglas Huebler treated more like an artist book. Along with some short statements concerning his ideas, the booklet presents a variety of his “Variable Pieces”. The usual dry humor is much in evidence. As the sole Forward statement by Director C.C. Cook accurately states: “Douglas Huebler is a real artist”.

Céline Duval - Untitled

2001, cneai – Chatou, France and École Régionale des Beaux-Artes de Caen – Caen, France, 32 pages, offset, staple bound.

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This is one of French artist Céline Duval’s first books and it remains a favorite. Consisting entirely of unaltered found postcards, the postcard-sized book arranges the cards into a very subtle and clever sequence that viewers should be left to discover on their own. Originally printed in an edition of 600 copies, this is out of print. Thanks to Céline for letting Public Collectors include a scan. For more of Céline Duval’s work, visit her website: www.doc-cd.net

Carlos Chavez - Como Armaa 20 Cuerpos Geometrico

 undated, Gomez-Gomez Hnos. Editores, Mexico, 44 pages, 6 3/4″ X 9″, staple-bound

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This book shows how to cut and fold paper or cardboard to make 20 different three dimensional geometric shapes; a tool that can be used with young children or adults to build complex structures.

Lloyd Kahn - Domebook 2

Pacific Domes, 1971, 128 pages, over-size paperback, ASIN: B000H02IU8

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This scan was contributed by Let’s Remake. An excerpt from the description on their website: “A dome is just a portion of a sphere. Lloyd Kahn is at it again, with Domebook 2. He says about the Domebook, “It’s much easier to build, than it is to write about it.” True to this sentiment Domebook contains over 100 pages of beautiful images and illustrations with brief and clear instructions – both written and drawn – and conversations about inspirations for building shelter out of domes. Buckminster Fuller, the key thinker behind Kahn and others’ fascination with dome building, gave away his original design for what he called the Sun Dome in the May 1966 issue of Popular Science. The plans, after Fuller improved them, were later sold for $5 by the magazine. Fuller’s geodesic geometry was built with mathematics, wood scraps and staples; a model that Kahn took up with a passion, continuing the meme with Domebooks 1 & 2, building domes around California.”

Lloyd Kahn, Robert Easton and others - Domebook 1, Pacific Domes

1970, 56 pages, over-size paperback

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The predecessor to Domebook 2 (see above). This excellent scan was contributed by standardRGB. Thank you very much!

The Unforgettable Fire – Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors

Edited by Japan Broadcasting Corporation, 1981, Pantheon Books, New York, 116 pages, offset, perfect bound.

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From the back cover: “The art in this book was a response to a request broadcast on a morning television program in Japan for drawings from atomic bomb survivors. The results were immediate. The television station was inundated with drawings. So powerful were the survivors’ desires to share their memories that they turned to whatever materials were at hand – pencils, crayons, watercolors, Magic Markers, colored pencils, India ink – and drew on the backs of calendars, advertisements, bills, or even the paper used to cover Japanese sliding doors. Some drew on the backs of children’s scribbled papers, probably those of their grandchildren.”

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black

1990, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series, New York, 154 pages, offset, perfect bound.

Link removed by request of the publisher.

Clegg & Guttmann - The Outdoor Exhibition Space: Munich – San Francisco

1992, published by K-Raum Daxter, Munich, 52 pages, 8 1/2 ” X 10 5/8 “, offset, perfect bound.

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From the introduction by Karola Grässlin: “Clegg & Guttmann declared a road underpass with no relation to art to be an exhibition space that, for the public, was an unfamiliar one and brought back (in the form of photographs resulting from this expansion of potential art sites) the exhibition to its original location, the K-raum Daxer sponsored by art patrons, Mr. and Mrs Daxer.”

Erving Goffman - Gender Advertisements

Introduction by Vivian Gornick. 1987 Harper Torche edition, 100 pages, 8 1/2 ” X 11″, offset, perfect bound.

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“Gender Advertisements is concerned with the behavioural representations of our cultural assumptions about the nature of the sexes. The first part of the book deals with the properties of gender displays… Erving Goffman then discusses the nature of photography and the relations of photographs to what they purport to picture. Finally he presents in detail the ways in which gender, especially the female gender, is presented in popular advertisements.” – from the back cover.

Amputee Love No. 1

Feb. 1975, 36 pages, published by Last Gasp.

[Mature content. Adults only. Click image to download: 16.4 mb PDF file]

This comic was written by a woman named Rene (identified as a double amputee and listed only by her first name) and drawn by her husband Rich. The cover art is by Brent Boates.

Very Rev. Msgr. Edwin B. Broaderick, Ph.D. - TV and Your Child

1955, published by The Paulist Press, 52 pages, 5″ X 7.2″, offset, staple-bound.

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An attempt to deal with the then very new medium of television and its programs. Broaderick, the author, was the first director of radio and television for the Archdiocese of New York. Sample quote: “The vivid attraction of TV, like the rhythmic coiling of a snake, can be so fascinating that the question “Is it poisonous?” may not arise until the children are helpless in its grasp.”

FOOD, an exhibition by White Columns

curated by Catherine Morris, published by Walter König, 52 pages, 8 1/4″ X 11 11/16″, offset, staple-bound.

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An out of print and hard to find exhibition catalog devoted to FOOD, a collaborative artist-run restaurant in New York City founded by artists Gordon Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden and Tina Girouard in 1971.

Michael Gira - Three Stories By M. Gira: MTV And The Cult Of The Body / The Idiot / My Birth

 1996, self-published, 25 single sided 8.5″ X 11″ photocopies.

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From the Swans Discography: “This photocopied packet of stories was sold on the 1997 tour. It includes four illustrations by Gira (one for each story and the cover drawing). The cover is dated 1996 but the copyright information is listed as 1996/97.” There are actually six drawings in total but Gira’s astonishing writing is the primary reason for posting this obscure publication.

trans formation : arts communication environment, N° 1.

1950, edited by Harry Holtzman, 64 pages, 8 7/16″ X 11″, staple-bound.

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A truly multi-disciplinary journal which affirmed that “art, science, technology are interacting components of the total human enterprise…” This publication, which existed for only three issues, treated the arts and sciences “as a continuum.”

Bruno Richard - Elles Sont De Sortie (E.S.D.S.) #19 Kolor Love

1986, published byFuturopolis, 44 pages, 6 ” X 7.5″, color printing with rubber stamp on cellophane cover, staple-bound.

[Mature content. Adults only. Click image to download: 18.3 mb PDF file]

This early publication by Paris-based artist Bruno Richard consists of garishly colored and highly aggressive drawings abstracted from photos of women and men in the military. This rare publication is posted with kind permission from the author. To see more visit: http://lsont2sortie.free.fr/

Marc Fischer - 9 Years of Mail: Bruno Richard / Marc Fischer

2006, published byColumbia College Center for Book & Paper, 24 pages, 8.5″ X 5.25″, black and white laser printing, staple-bound.

[Mature content. Adults only. Click image to download: 1.8 mb PDF file]

Created for the occasion of an exhibition at Columbia College, Chicago titled “Exalted Trash”, this booklet focuses on the friendship and postal correspondence of artists Fischer and Richard. The booklet includes examples of their mailings to each other, along with a brief interview with Bruno Richard by Marc Fischer.

For a sneak-peek of the site in development, please click here.

Here’s me as a ghoul in a Toyota Ad which was never used.

Click here to have a look!

The latest push to convince users to quit IE6 equated the browser to a nine-year-old carton of milk. IE6 debuted in August 2001.

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“You wouldn’t drink 9-year-old milk,” reads a milk carton pictured on a page hosted by Microsoft’s Australian division . “So why use a 9-year-old browser?

The campaign, which was first reported by Australian blogger Long Zheng , touts IE8 as the replacement for IE6, and cites company-funded research that claimed IE8′s malware-blocking tools caught 85% of the malicious sites the browser faces. Microsoft has sponsored several such studies , all conducted by NSS Labs.

IE6 has had its share of security problems. Late last year, for example, hackers used a vulnerability in the browser to steal confidential information from Google and scores of other major technology companies.

It’s also gotten the cold shoulder from several prominent Web sites and services. Google’s Gmail and YouTube, Facebook and Digg have all announced that they will no longer support IE6. Last March, a Denver design firm hosted a mock funeral for the browser; Microsoft sent a floral arrangement with a card reading, “Thanks for the good times.”

Microsoft has been begging users to leave IE6 for almost a year. Last August, the company’s general manager for Internet Explorer noted that, “Friends don’t let friends use IE6″ as she made her plea to users.

Whether users listened or because millions have moved to Windows 7 , which includes IE8, the percentage of people running IE6 has plummeted since August 2009. According to data from Web metrics company NetApplications, IE6 has fallen from a usage share of 25.3% to 17.6% in the last nine months, a drop of nearly eight percentage points, representing a decline of 30%.

However, Microsoft’s newest pitch is misleading, since IE6 true expiration date is April 8, 2014, when it finally retires the almost-as-old Windows XP . After that date, Microsoft will not release security updates for IE6 or Windows XP.

People still using IE6 must upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to continue to receive patches after July 13, 2010.

IE8 will be Microsoft’s final browser for Windows XP customers, as the company will not support XP with IE9, the next-generation browser that is in the early stages of development.