Rob Walker's Blog, page 10
September 25, 2010
S.O. Book News
UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco's Root Division, as part of Litquake's Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. PLUS: the first-ever Object Slam. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
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This is the sixth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — w...
September 23, 2010
Author Updates
UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco's Root Division, as part of Litquake's Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. PLUS: the first-ever Object Slam. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
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1) Shelley Jackson recently authored and illustrated a children's book: Mimi's Dada Catifesto.
2) ...
September 22, 2010
S.O. Book News
DON'T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake's Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco's Root Division. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
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September 21, 2010
The Hypothetical Development project
S.O. friends and readers, this may interest you:
With collaborators Ellen Susan and G.K. Darby, I've launched a new side project: Signage depicting imaginary building uses in New Orleans.
In a nutshell: We've identified a number of buildings around New Orleans that appear neglected and seem to have no future. We have devised imaginary future uses (The Museum of the Self, The Loitering Centre, etc.), and are illustrating those and printing onto 3′X5′ signage. These are meant to be "displayed" o...
Significant Objects Meme (20)
Michael Zelehoski's solo exhibition, Objecthood, at the Christina Ray gallery, "brings actual, quotidian objects into the realm of art. Zelehoski works almost exclusively with everyday objects, but by giving them autonomy and internal coherence, he is able to reveal their intrinsic value as art."
The exhibition runs through October 10, at 30 Grand Street, New York.
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MORE NEWS: For updates about the Significant Objects project a...
September 20, 2010
Author Updates
DON'T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake's Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco's Root Division. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
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1) Here's the schedule for Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City Paperback Tour (Fall 2010):
9/21 –...
September 19, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-09-19
DON'T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake's Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco's Root Division. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
S.O. Book News
DON'T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake's Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco's Root Division. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!
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This is the fourth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — w...
September 18, 2010
Author Updates
1) Miranda Mellis recently reviewed Thalia Field's Bird Lovers, Backyard in Brooklyn Rail. Excerpt:
More than half a century ago, Hannah Arendt was already arguing that scientists "move in a world where speech has lost its power." Field's book is, among other things, science translated into the discourses of poetry and theater. There is an ethical, interdisciplinary vision underlying the recursive image of a gang of students milling around Bird Lovers, Backyard, replete with notebooks and...
September 17, 2010
Author Updates
1) Annalee Newitz published a sci-fi story, "The Gravity Fetishist," in the webzine Flurb. Excerpt:
"Follow me." Ahmed held out a hand, fingers spread to admit Chris' between them. Down more stairs, and at last through a heavy door into a dimly-lit room full of benches and harnesses ringed with ornate gravity bulbs. In one harness, a woman struggled to lift her long, slim legs – a low-gravity body fighting forces it could not withstand. In a corner, a man on all fours crawled toward a...
