“I say fever” was Ramona Falls’ single back in 2010. It has an amazing video where the characters from 19th-century wood engravings come to life and… well, you’ll see.
Kind of like an animated version of La femme 100 têtes. I love this little film.
 

Ramona Falls “I Say Fever” from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

Thinking over ideas about 'library impact' and how one might create a narrative/ discourse/ discursive field (whatever), that featured a kind of 'extended set' of impact value. When I read about Michael Porter talking about shared value in the Harvard Business review I immediately thought "how might this be relevant to libraries"?

That's not an easy stretch! Because of course Porter is talking about business, and libraries aren't exactly that. Nevertheless ,what Porter does is to (at least potentially) reconnect the ideas of business, value and society. It seems to me that libraries (and in particular public libraries) have been putting value into their communities for, well, over 100 years now. Surely we've learned something about how to create and manage the output of shared value. And what is its impact? And… following Porter, how does it feed back to creating market value? That's just a final stage – part of a sort of multiple-format 'balanced scorecard' idea.

What one would have to do is create the 'value' of the value libraries create. Everyone is aware of this, which is why people get upset when they close. But we need a contemporary way to introduce those channels of value into the conversations we have nowadays. What is the nebulous value libraries offer? I'm quite sure it is there if we look.

So this is a kind of 'impact as a nominative technique', rather than as a 'measurement technique'. We create value by naming it: not by measuring it alone.

Let's name those values and see if they are worth something.

Interesting feature on Physical Fiction‘s process of creating images with lego plates.

Basically they’re using the flat-surfaced top plates of lego tiles as a sort of movable type for pixel art, with the pixel size corresponding to one individual ‘bump’ of lego. This is a great idea, and makes me think it would be a wonderful thing to scale up so that the pixels took on a closer level of detail when the view saw the completed piece. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, indeed! There are of course easier ways to get the work done, but the simplicity of the solution here is both wonderful from a geeky point of view and kind of accessible.

Just did my exam on stuff like Huffman coding/entropy/efficiency and the like along with metadata, logic, Boolean/nearness searching and algorithms and associated stuff. Not my finest hour as I’ve been whittling away at other things meantime, but it’s done now. Hopefully get some results quite soon.

It’s a bit of a shame not to have spent more time on the subjects involved. I’m genuinely interested, but the 1-year MSc is such a whirlwind that there’s really no time to do anything but keep my head above water. I reckon I have already forgotten a goodish chunk of what I knew this afternoon!

I've been listening to The Clientele a lot the last couple of days, then poked around for lyrics online and found the singer's blog. He does good drawings too: http://alasdairforsale.blogspot.com/

at Priddy Bonfire, originally uploaded by aesop.

Thanks to Penny for giving us a nice time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

via www.visual-editions.com

Added a new instructional handout to my resources pages. Single-Sheet Slit pamphlet. This is a super simple pamphlet, whose advantages are its great simplicity and the fact that you can quickly fling together a small pamphlet from a sheet of paper printed on a single side.

End clothing are promoting a range on New Balance sneakers based on pubs. Each shoe's lining matches the carpet of the (real) pub it's named after. Do Want.

We’ll be honest, a few of us here at End don’t mind the odd beer, but in our ever advancing years we have started to drink less and less lager, instead opting for a good real ale. We’re lucky enough to be blessed with a plethora of amazing local breweries here in the North East, and it just so happens End and New Balance have come up with the perfect excuse/reason to let one of our lucky customers get their hands on a hand-picked selection of local tipples!

via www.endclothing.co.uk