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Lets.Make.Stuff.Together. Dayjob really understands us. 

Our Project of the Day is quite a novel idea! The Hundred Story House is a mini-lending library fashioned to look like a classic Brooklyn brownstone, right down to the decorative ivy. The public art piece will be filled with dozens of books, all of which can be taken, shared, and returned by any curious passerby. Celebrate literature through sharing!

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urbanbricolage:

How to start book sharing in public space? Cool way to reuse obsolete phone booths…

Another cool way to share books in public space? The Hundred Story House!

Uncharted Books: WE'LL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 →

unchartedbooks:

I am pleased to announce the soft opening of Uncharted Books, this coming Saturday, January 14. There will also be a Kickstarter backer-only preview on Friday. If you backed the project, check your email for details.

Here are the hours for our slightly funky first week of business and the regular…

A Kickstarter-ed book store comes to life. Hooray!

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Booze books. Repurposing used books to conceal Italian glass flasks. Don’t tell Mum, but we love this.

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Today’s Project of the Day is Victoria van der Laan’s  Cloth Book of the Month. 

If you are anything like me, you fall asleep when you read. Not because the material is, um, sleep, but because of, well, it just happens! In the spirit of softening the blow, and, for non-sleep readers, shifting the experience, Victoria van der Laan is making a series of cloth books, to be serially distributed month-by-month, until your heart is content. 

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KSR IRL/IYF (…In Real Life slash In Yo Face!) (…sweater weather —> kinda aggro.)

in NYC:

• (as aforementioned!) Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival tonight, 9/16 - 9/19 @ Union Hall and The Bell House. Click here for schedge and tix.
• Rafael Salazar’s short film Camillo screens tomorrow, 9/17 at the Urbanworld 2011 Film Festival @ AMC Theater on 34th. Click here for schedge and tix.
  
• The We Promote Knowledge & Love parade hits Harlem Sunday, 9/18 from 1-5p. Meet up at Frederick Douglass Circle located at the intersection of 110^th Street and Frederick Douglass Avenue.
  
• Sunday 9/18 @ 4p (as aforementioned!) the Brooklyn Book Festival features a Kickstarter Conversations panel discussion with KSR co-founder Yancey Strickler and authors Ted Rall, Nelson George, and Meaghan O’Connell.

in Boston:

• Sunday 9/18 @ 3p, Ruaridh Arrow’s feature documentary on Gene Sharp, How To Start a Revolution has its world premiere at the Boston Film Festival. Click here for tix.
• Monday, 9/19, fashion blogger Martini Severin’s “Look at You, Boston!” photo exhibition opens at Boston City Hall.

Last Call, Y’all! One Day Left on The Library of Philip Johnson, Birch Cooper’s pristine preservation project to take complete inventory of the world-famous architect’s library at the Glass House and transform it into a magical 250-page volume that contains over 350 photographic illustrations and brief textual analyses of 100 selected works from Johnson’s study. Each selected title includes a photograph of the cover, highlights from the interior, and a synopsis of the content. I wrote it up for Le Blog a little while back and will continue to pimp this project till the very end. Preview this big beautiful book here. Because nobody likes a bare coffee table. Nobody.

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From Le KSR Blog: “Birch Cooper is a man who understands the value of the book. He began buying and selling rare books as a college student in the 1990s and moved to New York in 2001, where he developed and curated libraries for homeowners and commercial clients. His latest literary endeavor, Birch Books Conservation, is a non-profit organization devoted to the researching, recording, and protection of books found at historic sites. Cooper is using Kickstarter to raise funds for the organization’s first project, the library of world-famous architect Philip Johnson…After 3 years of researching, photographing, and summarizing its contents, The Library of Philip Johnson: Selections for the Glass House will be ready for printing this fall…” Read more about Birch and his book on The Kickstarter Blog and/or grab a $40 copy of the book here. (Hotfire tote avail for $20.)