where are all the sad dolls?
from n at the international desk:
n says “this is the first day of the rest of my life as a sad doll”.
i had a swimming underwater dream last night. first i was swimming out to this rocky island way off the coast and it looked kind of scary underneath, but i went under it anyway and i found a way up through the foundation of the caretaker’s house.
so when you are coming up through the foundation of a house on a rock it is really nice if there is a little string that you pull to open the door so you don’t need to mess with the latch. so that was fun. when i opened the door there were like 45 unopened letters in fun envelopes (at least a few were the traditional air mail ones). so i din’t think anyone was there. so i went upstairs. but there was fish on the grill. then there was someone there. then later i found out that my job was to swim to the mainland everyday to work as an unpaid volunteer at a library. but we weren’t allowed to take dry clothes.
on a tip from j.d.t.
a doll just like this got auctioned off in maine yesterday:
more on jumeau here.
i guess there were several different screamers:
so there.
digital graffiti? you have to shake the digital can after a while. and the nozzle is pressure-sensitve along a pretty seriously highly granular scale.
here is another great doll video found on youtube:
by Andrew Huang here.
rise of the animatronic dolls. and the fall.
toadstools, a curvy porcelain dove, cocktail conversations of dogs-as-accessories, out-loud reading barthes on photography, a journal for films seen, flipping through books of gregory crewdson’s photos and mike mills’ photos. encounter at the duty-free that stops you in your tracks.
this is one beautiful bookspace that i’ve actually gotten to visit.
the regional assembly of text. website here.
this is the lowercase reading room inside the regional assembly of text. the reading room has its own blog here.
this place also has stamps. and buttons. and letterpress cards.
so glad that it is around.
an international assignment.
i left some tracks in a far-off land.
ok, in total violation of my strict NO YOUTUBE policy.
[potential to rot my brain, concerns about going there and never being able to find my way back, the comments are THE PITS, the whole site is ugly].
yeah, so i’m violating that strict policy for my new friend, a.a.
maybe it is time to grow as a person.
a.a. sent me a link to this video. in her honor i bring you a curated selection of sad doll movies from youtube.
numero uno: here
“This is a dorky movie that my cousins, sisters, and I made one night when we were bored. Basically it’s about a toy keeper who delivers a overgrown maniac doll to two gothic children playing in a bathtub. And it kills them.”
dos: here
Ghost Dolls!
tres: here
this one gets no caption. but it gets entered in the best foreign language film about sad dolls category. since it is the only entry, it could win.
up next: we’ll curate a series drawn only from the sub-genre of animated sad doll videos. here’s a sneak peak.
she absolutely needs that cansiter to her left. because that’s how she can speak.
HEY.
do you really think we can make things happen like that? or was it just a coincidence. in the hilly home of the muses.
pretty much. probably.
you all know i’ve been thinking a lot about the future of publishing, future of the book, blah blah blah.
enter publication studio (in Portland) (of course)(mnnneeeeeeahhhh).
check it out:
image from their tumblr here.
good lord j.c. i hope things like this can fly.
from their page:
“Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense—not just the production of books, but the production of a public who cares about them. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts: the production and circulation of texts; discussions and gatherings in physical space; and the maintenance of a related digital commons. Together these construct a common space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being. This is publication in its fullest sense.”
