if You Printed the Internet (in 2008)
A Blackstrap is just 74 pages…easier to travel with.
via @stevesilberman
Father’s Day is coming. The Blackstrap crew feels like giving your father a book full of amazing articles might be the perfect gift…but we’re biased.
Order your book before Friday 6/10 at 7 AM EST and your book will get there in time.
Your Dad’s brain will appreciate it.
“Start-up creative agency Hodcha and Alexis Nuselovici of Cardiff University worked together to develop an event-based model of publishing. Book Kernel allows audiences to curate and print a personal memento of a live event, incorporating selected content, social media interaction and contextual information.”
The Book as Directory, Silvio Lorusso (2013)
Culture changes and that’s ok. However, the feeding of culture should maintain a panoply of mechanisms for inserting ideas into the cultural stream.
The thing about book’s disconnectedness is that that disconnectedness allows culture to flow in non-standard ways. Putting cultural inputs onto a standardized, connected platform seems better for computers than for humans.
Blackstrap is excited about disconnecting content because it allows readers to insert knowledge into the stream through their own specialized ways.
(via mmmmarginalia)
Florian Cramer, Post-digital Aesthetics ◊ Jeu de Paume / le magazine (via mmmmarginalia)
Importantly these niches fulfill aesthetic and social deficiencies. These deficiencies can be accounted for, but in accounting for them what is lost? Perhaps a better question is - Why lose them? Structure your life to absorb maximally through a variety of content consumption approaches.
(via mmmmarginalia)
Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.”
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Bruce Mau’s 43 lessons (and growing) are remarkable. We felt this was particularly relevant to the work we do at Blackstrap on behalf of our readers.
Disruptions: Even the Tech Elites Leave Gadgets Behind
And we welcome them to Blackstrap. Come be undistracted…for a bit.
