I met Rachael Morrison when we both spoke about the future of printed books at the Adult Education lecture series in Brooklyn in October. She is an artist and a librarian who is currently working at smelling all the books at the MOMA library. I was intrigued by the way in which her project questions how we relate emotionally to media that is obsolescing. In this week’s New York Magazine’s Reasons To Love New York issue, I wrote about her under this “reason”: Because We’re Home to a Woman Who Spends Her Days Smelling Books
Sometimes, Morrison told me, she day dreams about some future person finding her scent notebook. “Assuming all text has gone digital at that point, I wonder if he or she will think it’s strange or even gross that books once had a smell,” she said. “What will my notebook smell like?”
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Speaking of New York whateverzine, my dad, Bob Grossman, used to do a weekly cartoon for them called Zoo Nooz. He did this panel in 1977.
From New York magazine. I mean website. Whatever:
Obsolete TV Listings Resurrected by L.A. Times
Complete, weekly TV listings guides — the kind on paper! — used to be a regular component of newspapers’ weekend editions. But then cable boxes started to carry the exact same information, without the dead trees or printing costs, and papers like the New York and L.A. Times discontinued them, while magazines like TV Guide started floundering. Now, the L.A. Times, which stopped printing its “TV Times” back in April 2007, will start it up again, because … well, just because! (Or, as an L.A. Times VP puts it, because: “Our [elderly] readers tell us they want a weekly TV book that covers around-the-clock programming.”) Now Los Angeles–area residents can get exactly the same information they have on their televisions by purchasing the L.A. Times at a newsstand, or paying an extra $2.99 per month to have it delivered to their homes. Then they can read it and see it on their TV screens at exactly the same time. [Wrap via Awl]
