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[ August 5, 2007 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents (Ludwig, Cage, Primo)

Quote of the Week: Osamu Tezuka is the subject of a retrospective exhibit, Marvel of Manga, at the Asia Art Museum (asianart.org) in San Francisco. (Full disclosure: I am employed by one of the exhibit’s corporate sponsors.) Of a Beethoven manga by Tezuka, titled Ludwig B, the exhibit notes state, “Possibly because of […]

[ August 5, 2007 / bookmark ]

field notes / Listening to Warren Ellis’s Debut Novel

“The design is such that the sound of the book being opened onto a table has infrasonic content, too low for human hearing. The book briefly vibrates at eighteen hertz, which is the resonant frequency of the human eyeball. … It’s a book that forces you to read it.”
That bit of sci-fi product design is […]