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Laura‘s Street Books project has been doing just tremendously.

Among many other places, she was written up in the Christian Science Monitor and local filmmaker Travis Shields created this short, really lovely documentary on the project.
Go Laura!

Even better, she announced on the Street Books blog that they’ve officially decided to continue past their original end-date (and we three on the home-front are happy to hear that she will have help).

My fabulous partner Laura Moulton has launched her latest project, Street Books – a mobile, bicycle-powered library for people living outside.

She received a RACC grant for this and the project is generously hosted — while not in motion — at  Mercy Corps just off of Skidmore fountain in downtown Portland. I believe if you go by their office you can see it there.

I’ve really enjoyed the dialogue that’s happened between librarian and patrons so far — and the patrons have seemed very enthused about the possibility of getting books. If you want to see the current book request list, have a look at the Sponsor a Book page.

Street Books bike

Here are a couple of shots of patrons – click on through to read their post on Street Books.

Marvin (only carries the Torah) - I saw a great video of him talking about his bike adventure that Laura will post in the next few days

Elizabeth - chose a Dark Horse book

Dave - took one for his girlfriend too

Steve Snell “River King” paddled the Connecticut river in a wooden, carved couch boat.

I am almost positive that this is one of the characters from my Couch, my bet is on Erik, escaped from the book. If you run into him, please ask.

Click to make it large enough to read the article.

Oh, and I just found this at steve-snell.com. Definitely worth a look-see. I’m so happy that Erik upgraded with a paddle.

Via my good friend Paul Chaney who found this story on the other side of the pond.

Felix Schlater at swarmandcreate.com created an alternate cover for Couch. It’s really lovely. It’s worth checking out his other work too – I loved the Black Keys and Arcade Fire album re-designs. The redesign is similar in spirit to the original design that Small Beer Press mocked up as a placeholder before Andi Watson did the final cover. Actually I think  it was the second mockup – but I can’t seem to find it on the web now.

At any rate, thanks Felix!

Update:

Ah, here’s the secondary cover…

From artist David Horvitz:

I very much enjoyed perusing his things for sale, each of which you may buy a small part, including:

If you give me $3,143 I will go as far away as possible. I live in New York. I will go to Perth, Australia the farthest distance from New York on Earth. I will mail you a photograph of me standing in New York. I will then mail you a photograph of me standing in Perth. I’m a little sad right now and I would kind of like to escape, so if you are thinking about getting one of these and not sure what you want, please take in consideration my emotions and pick this one.

and:

If you give me $437 I will go to Seattle and hang out with my best friend, Naseem. I will send you a photograph of us hanging out everyday. If we fight, and it is inevitable that we will, I will make a video of us apologizing to each other and explaining our position as to why we are angry at the other and how we will resolve the situation. I will post this on Youtube for you. Maybe we won’t fight! But we probably will.

David Horvitz things for sale.

This is worth clicking on to see closer up.

This is called Gato. Stealing power from public utilities. This was shot in the Rocinha Favela in Rio.