September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'StoryCubes'
Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
Sneaky peek at Mandy’s desk
October 1st, 2010 1 Comment
While Mandy was out at lunch Alice and I pounced on the StoryCube puzzle she’s working on because, well, because it looks gorgeous! Pencil sketches of farmyard animals, sea creatures, flowers, kittens, insects and snakes are scattered across a set of nine cubes and lie on a background of shades of blue. The sketches cross [...]
Tags: cube · drawing · experiments · inspiration · making · StoryCubes
Case Study – Niharika Hariharan
September 22nd, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I presented Gillian Cowell‘s independent eBook projects and also started with a very simple early categorisation for how people design and use eBooks – publishing and capturing. This week’s case study also deals with the work of an independent researcher and self-described “story teller, explorer, wanderer” – Niharika Hariharan. I contacted Niharika on [...]
Tags: eBooks · examples · experiments · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · StoryCubes
Case Study – Gillian Cowell
September 15th, 2010 2 Comments
This week’s eBook case study involves the work of researcher and community education worker Gillian Cowell. Gillian first encountered the eBooks online while doing research for her masters degree. She was interested in finding online tools help her to “capture data in a more interesting way for local people.” She was also hoping to turn [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · community · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
Comics, Cubed
September 6th, 2010 1 Comment
In my last post I looked at how handmade zines could be made in ways that were impossible to recreate digitally, which led me to discover a handful of comics that exist in three dimensions. Warren Craghead’s “A sort of Autobiography” is a comic spanning ten StoryCubes, each detailing a decade of his life, and [...]
Tags: comics · making · StoryCubes
Story Cubes and Art Works
September 3rd, 2010 No Comments
In 2008 Alec Finlay made a series of two Story Cubes. Alec is an artist, poet and publisher currently working in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Story Cubes he made were titled ‘After Ludwig Wittgenstein‘ and ‘score/fold‘ and could be made up into two cube poems. Each side of the two cubes features a single word and [...]
Tags: making · StoryCubes
Words as Texture
August 23rd, 2010 1 Comment
One of my favourite sets of Story Cubes is the Pharmaceutical Cubes created by Kenneth Goldsmith in 2008. Inspired and intrigued by the extensive warnings and disclaimers that accompany advertisements of pharmaceutical drugs, he found that these documents sometimes covered 43 pages or almost 7000 words. Kenneth took six of these documents and re-formatted them [...]
Tags: cube · residency · sharing · StoryCubes
Seven Days in Seven Dials
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
This week bookleteer has been supporting the project Seven Days in Seven Dials: a week in the life of London’s Culture Quarters organised by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network. Over the past days more than 30 young staff of 9 arts organisations based in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London have been working to [...]
Tags: eBooks · emptyshops · pop-up · residency · StoryCubes
Report Back on PU&P 10: Augmented Reading
July 8th, 2010 2 Comments
Pitch Up Publish 10: Augmented Reading took place last Thursday and thanks to our excellent participants I had a fantastic afternoon. Alan Chamberlain from Mixed Reality Lab, David Crowley and Jeremy Millar from the RCA, James Bridle and Josh, Rob and Fabia from getmorelocal were knowledgable, inspiring, provocative and entertaining and I ended the afternoon [...]
Tags: eBooks · experiments · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes
Julie Myers: Trail Song
July 2nd, 2010 No Comments
While I was thinking about augmented reading in preparation for yesterdays PU&P (which was fab – thanks guys!) Giles showed me the Trail Song project by Julie Myers who he commissioned as part of the Transformations series. The Whyte Museum Archive, Banff, describes a Trail Song in this way: “A Trail Song uses a well [...]
Tags: eBooks · inspiration · StoryCubes · Transformations · videos
Story Cubes Story Board
June 17th, 2010 No Comments
In contrast to Rita King’s technologically-minded Story Cubes project, Alice made a set of Story Cubes for Landscapes in Dialogue that only exist as physical objects. Yet for me these 72 paper cubes have an equally interesting relationship to technological processes… The cubes were made to support a short video about a trip Alice made [...]
Tags: inspiration · StoryCubes
Rita J. King: StoryCubes in a Virtual World
June 15th, 2010 No Comments
Story Cubes in Second Life As I explore Story Cubes I thought I would investigate how artists have used these objects in more successful ways than my fabulously unsuccessful pinhole camera experiments. Rita J. King of Dancing Ink Productions was commissioned by Giles to contribute to Transformations on diffusion.org.uk. Transformations asks writers, artists, performers, thinkers [...]
Tags: augmented · inspiration · StoryCubes · virtual
StoryCube Cameras
June 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Without seeing my post on Thomas Hudson Reeve and his paper cameras, Niharika suggested we try to turn StoryCubes into pinhole cameras. When we mentioned this to Giles we discovered that a project he had commissioned by Tina Keane for Coil Journal of the Moving Image had involved pinhole cameras and there were still a [...]
Tags: experiments · StoryCubes
Paper Cameras
June 11th, 2010 No Comments
Pinhole photograph of the World Trade Center by Thomas Hudson Reeve I was googling around the other day searching for interesting things people had done with cubes and I came across the website of Thomas Hudson Reeve, a New York based artist who have creates paper pinhole cameras. What I like about these cameras is [...]
Tags: inspiration · StoryCubes
Competition: Hand-made by bookleteer
June 4th, 2010 1 Comment
A creative mess in the Proboscis studio… I’ve been having a great time recently playing around with hand-made eBooks and StoryCubes and Giles and I thought we’d invite you to join in. So we’re going to run a little competition called Hand-made by bookleteer. Send us your photographs of hand-made eBooks and StoryCubes and we’ll [...]
Tags: competition · eBooks · hand-made · StoryCubes
