Someone favorited the above photo in my Flickr stream last night. This is one my own favorite photos but it slipped by in my photo stream unnoticed by anyone for two years until last night. I walked into a little independent book store in the Mission one night because there was a rumor that the
Extra Action Marching Band would be doing a guerrilla show there to interrupt some guys scheduled book reading. So I arrive at Adobe Books and there is this author Seth Malis and 4 or 5 other people there. I'm immediately struck by something as I walk in. There's a sort of surreal cognitive dissonance. It actually took a minute or so, but suddenly I realized that all of the books on the wall were arranged by color. That realization was an incredibly visceral moment! Moments later Seth started reading this great beat poet style work, throwing each page over his shoulder as he finished. After a few minutes of that the EAMB slammed into the store and it was utter chaos. It's one of my most treasured moments in a decade of living in San Francisco. The horizontal photo above is a stitched together panorama of several individual photos, so view it at the
largest size for the best image.
Via the Flickr group
Rainbow of Books, I discovered today that there is a
KQED Spark segment available that goes over the installation of the rainbow of books project by artist Chris Cobb. Mie and I don't watch a lot of TV, but Spark is one of the shows we enjoy regularly.
