February 4th, 2010 § 0
His and Hers Mug Set by Brooklyn Rehab. Decals on overstock restaurant china — $30
Anatomical Heart Soap from Bubble Genius. Vegan with natural pomegranate scent — $7
Scout Book Journals 3-pack from Pinball Publishing. 100% recycled. Graph paper –$10
Super Sunprint Kit from Lawrence Hall of Science. Includes 15 sheets of 8″x10″ Sunprint paper — $14
All items are in our physical store only, for now.
January 28th, 2010 § 0
Our Hand Soaps were a huge hit this past holiday season. We ran out a couple of weeks ago, but now they’re back in stock. Available online and at our physical store.
As seen on Brokelyn.com’s “Top 25 Brooklyn gifts for $25 and under”. (We’re number one!)
January 24th, 2010 § 0
Esopus 13:
This issue of Esopus includes artists’ projects by Oliver Herring, Peter Krashes, Jeff Gibson and Mickey Smith, plus a portfolio of never-before-seen work by Alex Masket. Other contents include manuscript pages from a memoir by poet Jennifer Moxley, new fiction from Kelly Sandoval and artifacts from the collection of the late, esteemed rare books librarian Marjorie G. Wynne. Also featured are new installments of two regular Esopus series, Modern Artifacts, which reproduces in facsimile materials from the MoMA archives (in this case, documents related to the museum’s first Matisse exhibition), and Guarded Opinions, featuring museum guards’ impressions of the art they oversee. French historian Stéphane Gerson closes the issue with a fascinating analysis of visual representations of Nostradamus over the past 500 years. For the issue’s themed CD, 11 musicians (including Frightened Rabbit, Laura Gibson, Phil Kline and Natureboy) were asked to create a new song inspired by one of Nostradamus’ quatrains.
Preview this issue. Available at our physical store.
Cabinet 35: Dust
Dust is everywhere, a perennial presence in the corners of culture. Dust can be deathly (domestic dust is mostly desiccated human skin), deadly (poisonous dust is the product of industry and war) or beautiful (the dusty matte surface of make-up, a light dusting applied by the confectioner, glittering motes caught in a sunbeam). In British English, “dust” is another name for dirt, or matter in the wrong place, implying that it can be moved from one spot to another, but never–as with matter or metaphor–completely eradicated. Cabinet 35 examines dust’s ubiquity. Features include Steven Connor on the manifold forms and patterns of magic dust; Brian Dillon on Proust’s vacuum cleaner; and Valerie Smith and Matt Mullican on marble dust drawings. Elsewhere in the issue, Steve Reinke catalogues untimely deaths; Helen Polson muses over the fate of lost teeth; Jeff Dolven reviews Conlon Nancarrow’s compositions for musical machines; and Margaret Wertheim takes on the mathematical structure known as E8.
Preview this issue. Available at our physical store.
January 23rd, 2010 § 0
San Francisco’s Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis (aka Treatzone) make these great “altered portraits” — vintage/antique portrait photographs with brightly colored hand-painted embellishment. View the whole set at Treatzone’s Flickr page. Available at our physical store, but not online (yet).
January 22nd, 2010 § 0
The local NBC show “First Look” did a short segment on the store last November. Check it out:
January 22nd, 2010 § 0
That was a close call. The artists Kahn & Selesnick thought they’d sold out their entire limited edition run of Eisbergfreistadt Souvenir Playing Cards a couple of months ago. But after fully unpacking from a move they (and we!) were relieved to find just few more, and they were generous enough to share them with us. This is the last batch, though. Buy them online, or in person at our store.
