There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World
December 27, 2004
You’ve probably already seen this on Jen’s blog, but it’s pretty sweet. An art installation at a San Francisco bookshop where they reorganized the books by color. Absolutely amazing. I wonder if they could do that at Firestone. The artist, Chris Cobb, said the following about his installation: “Even though there is so much to be unhappy about in this world, we should try to create something amazing and beautiful and interesting despite all of the problems.” [read entire interview here]
Tags: Art, Books, Bookstore
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
December 27th, 2004 at 11:26 pm
At first I was wondering how they did that, then I read your post. Thanks for the interesting info.
January 3rd, 2005 at 5:14 pm
The irony of this project is that this beautiful arrangement creates its own disorder–there are very few books I could find by color. Is the message here that we get to utopia by silencing all those bothersome books? Or is this a gross misreading ‚Ķ
January 3rd, 2005 at 6:34 pm
have you ever worked in a bookstore? how many hundreds of times have people come up to me and asked “do you know this blue book…”. this is a dream come true!