Claude Closky’s Happy New Years
Claude Closky (AKA Caude Closki, Cleaude Clocky, Klaude Klosky, Claud Losky, Clade Klosky, Klaude Cosky, Laude Clausky, Colode Coloski, Claud Cloqui, Caude Cloky, Claudo Quoski, Quaude Kloky, Clude Clossy, Cladde Klooky, Clod Closkie, Claue Chosky, Clauce Closko, Kaude Closhy, Chaude Koski, Code Cosky, Cloud Clowsky) brings in the New Years.
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Fallen Books, a Book by Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
From www.dubbin-davidson.com:
Books are earthquake proof. Fallen Books is a book project that brings together images of toppled books housed in seismically active libraries. The photographs, often taken by librarians, are laid out as a chronological index of libraries in the aftermath of an earthquake and include earthquake names, locations, dates and the relative intensity of the earthquake as measured by the Modified Mercalli Scale. The accompanying captions are quotes from newspapers and librarian’s notes.
The Modified Mercalli Scale is a descriptive and graphic alternative to the Richter Scale, that quantifies how strongly an earthquake affects the Earth’s surface, humans, manmade objects and nature, on a scale of I through XII. Topographic maps of earthquake areas use the Mercalli Scale color code to indicate how far away from the epicenter the earthquake was felt and at what degree of intensity.
This book in the hands of the reader will always refer to the copies of Fallen Books introduced into the featured libraries. This book is both an archive and a forecast.
Data Matrix, A–Z
The Mean Color
Greetings,
This issue of Private Circulation features a series of prints sent by an anonymous artist titled “The Mean Colors of Recent Developments in New York’s Lower East Side.” The images depict four newish towers from the LES and are purportedly silkscreen and inkjet on paper (no dimensions were given). However, the fifth building, over sixty blocks and seven avenues away, is in the Upper West Side. Several attempts to contact the artist were met by silence, leaving to question whether the fifth building is a calculated fiction or merely a research mistake.
–The Editors
