FRAMES and The Pinkerton Diaries

Two of the creative idols that I have spent a good deal of my life worshiping will be self-publishing two very idiosyncratic projects this year.

First up is George Lucas's "FRAMES" book, which I have to say is one of the weirdest ideas for a book I have ever seen. It is basically hundreds of still frames from all six of the Star Wars movies, in order, in a book, all hand-picked by George Lucas. I guess this took him two years? StarWars.com has a video all about it where they get into the specifics of the project, but the bottom line is that each set costs $3,000.00 and comes in a giant wooden box, plus it's signed by Mr. Lucas. They are only making 1,138 of them, and I do NOT need to own one.

Second up is The Pinkerton Diaries, by Rivers Cuomo, which Karl recently described on Weezer.com:

"The Pinkerton Diaries" consists of Rivers's compiled journal entries, school papers and letters from 1994