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Books-rupturing-the-walls installation

Cory Doctorow at 1:09 pm Wed, Jul 27, 2011

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Warey Myers designed this installation for the new offices of Portland's VIA Advertising Agency, which are in the Baxter Building, home to the Portland Public Library from 1888-1960: "Books breaking through the (faux) wall downstairs, referencing the "basement stacks" every library has. In this case it's as if those stacks had been sealed up during some remodel, and are anthropomorphically breaking through, referencing the old library, history, roots, poltergeists..."

^^^ Wary Meyers The Basement Stacks ^^^

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • OldBrownSquirrel

    The Baxter Building? Two thoughts:

    1) I can more readily picture Ben coming through the wall.
    2) Keep Johnny away from the books!

  • http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

    Way cool!

    You forgot to say it’s in Portland, MAine.  The real and first Portland.
    God damn, I love my city sometimes!

    • tedder42

      Portland Maine is not the real and first Portland. That would be the Isle of Portland in Merrye Olde Englande. Or GB, or UK, or.. whatever it is. That’s the Portland that gave Portland Cement its name.

    • http://narrowstreetsla.blogspot.com David Yoon

      If you love it so much, why don’t you marry it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mrs.schaarschmidt Barb Schaarschmidt

    This is beautiful. I’d kind of like something similar in my house. Totally awesome.

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    Johnny can have Fahrenheit 451

  • http://repeaterband.com skeletoncityrepeater

    I have always loved the basement stacks, especially in university libraries. Anyone who thinks ‘everything is on the Internet’ will think again if browsing down there.

    • penguinchris

      I worked in my university’s library shelving books. Many hours were spent on the job “shelving books” that involved looking through interesting old books I came across in the stacks.

  • Soliloquy

    And a voice whispers, “Read me…”

  • alexv

    Oook!

  • jwhibley

    they’re coming for you Doug Ford…