This is where all the programming and technical manuals live, but they tend to migrate downward as needed.
The Jaques Cousteu set moved up here. Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic cribbed heavily from these.
Mostly design and typography. Again, this stuff tends to migrate to lower shelves.
Fine Art books. A few are mine, but most are Pamela's.
The screen rolls down for the projector when we watch movies. Not so good in the daylight, but that's kind of the point.
I think this is mostly fiction, but Pame moved a lot of this stuff recently and I didn't see where everything turned up.
Pame collects this series of children's storybooks. Andy Warhol did some of the illustrations early in his career.
I found this photo enlarger timer in the dump, years ago. It reminds me of my darkroom days.
Dictionaries and language reference.
Photos I've taken and printed. Mostly from high school; not that much makes its way to paper these days.
Journals (mostly Pame's) live in the box.
I have a hard time throwing away magazines. We recently culled out a bunch, but there's still a sizable collection.
Mostly theory and new media criticism.
A year or two ago I got really tired of dust jackets. Now when I buy a book, the jacket comes off and is added to this roll. One day I'll do something with them.
Mostly philosophy books from my undergrad days.
Theory overflow? This is kind of a grey area.
Screws, nails, metal bits and whatnot all live in this nice old Maxwell House tin. I learned that trick from Andy. So far I haven't contracted tetanus.
Fiction here, mostly Paul Auster. Trying to go alpha by author, but it breaks down pretty quickly
These are where the buttons (or "badges" if yr of the UK persuasion) live before I put them on canvas.
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. One day I'll re-read these, but I've got a lot of other stuff to plow through first.
TOP: Photo album. MIDDLE: A birthday gift from a few years ago which I'll never read. BOTTOM: A bargain rack copy of Quicksilver which I picked up as a loaner copy. Anybody want it?
Pretty gnarly mix of fiction, Borges, DV tapes and whatnot.
A little tea tin to put cable ties in.
More media theory, but getting into science books.
A little series of art books which we somehow accumulated.
This box used to be a pinhole camera from Mr. Wright's physics class. Now it holds photos and postcards.
The O'Reilly books and technical manuals and design books which migrated from the top shelf.
Comics!
Cookbooks and cooking magazines. Nearest the kitchen, natch.
History and political theory. Not the largest section, but growing rapidly, and consistently finding itself home to the most urgent new acquisitions.
Judaica and religion. Class will end in a few weeks, hopefully freeing up some much-needed bookshelf space.
LIfestyle, culture, biography, music, music-bio, pop-sociology (ie Gladwell, Surowieki, etc). Kind of a jumble.
DVDs
I found this at a Goodwill somewhere. It's slated to be the first victim of my urge to circuit-bend.
Music CDs, data CDs, and binders of CDs. There got to be a better way to store this stuff.
Just a mess. Journals, sketchbooks, copy paper. Needs to be cleaned.
20070507 Photomerge of the bookshelf. I like the way the lighting and
perspective get all weird. These annotations describe what's actually
here. I'd like to do another set outlining where everything's
_supposed_ to be. And then maybe I can actually put everything where
it belongs.
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captcreate 49 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called What's on your shelves?, and we'd love to have this added to the group! Please join the group! :)
hanna d 48 months ago | reply
Wow, I love that. My bookshelf is mostly fiction.
journalpoet 40 months ago | reply
Your neighbours must be puzzled why their wall is concave! Great view.
Églantine 23 months ago | reply
A cool image!