Rev. Syung Myung Me also has an excellent recommendation on the comments for the Signal 30 post. I had to share this on the front page too – because it sounds like a must-have to me!
“On a similar tip to the Car Crashes book, have you ever seen Negativland’s book/CD Deathsentences of the Polished & Structurally Weak? It’s one of my favorite things they’ve ever done, and, well, I just about adore almost everything they’ve ever done. The CD isn’t the thrust of the project — though it’s not bad, it’s not sample-based, and really noisy, so something different than you’d expect from them — the book is.
“The book is a collection of photos; they went to junk yards, and took photographs of car wrecks, then looked in the wrecks for detritus of their previous owners. The layout is the car on the left page of the spread, the item on the right, along with a transcription of what it says (as random people’s handwriting is often hard enough to read when it’s not on crumpled paper taken from old, wrecked cars). It’s REALLY cool — I highly recommend checking it out.”
Sounds like the kind of project I might dream up! Great stuff – and the website has a few samples. I just ordered a copy of it for myself. They are available for purchase from the website.