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What We Are Learning by What We Are Learning For two years, What We Are Learning issued a monthly compendium of brief reports from several dozen friends, telling what each of them had learned recently. This book gathers their reports into a uniquely compelling narrative that displaces the drama of the individual with the pleasures of the collective. What We Are Learning is one of the most provocative and successful experiments in dispersed authorship that we have seen.
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Meiro Koizumi by Open Satellite This is the first in a series of publications we are making with Open Satellite, a Bellevue, WA-based artist residency and gallery. Open Satellite hosts artists from around the world in one- to three-month residencies leading to exhibitions. The book documents Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's exhibition, The Corner of Sweet and Bitter. With drawings from the artist's notebooks and new essays by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger, and Yoko Ott, director of Open Satellite, the book also significantly expands the scholarship around Koizumi's work.
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture is Canadian poet Lisa Robertson’s lyrical document of a decade or so of transformations in her then-home town of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004, we offer it in an especially janky Jank Edition, chopped, cut, abraded, but with sturdy spine and every word legible, in bright yellow file-folder covers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Yoko + Moon by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Yoko + Moon is Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's collection of ink and water drawings of Yoko Ono or of the moon. Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and musician who lives in Portland, Ore. $40, softcover. |
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Owner of This World by Shawn Records Owner of This World is a book of photographs made by Shawn Records during the four months that his son, Max Records, spent working as an actor on the set of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Max was nine-years old at the time, and neither he nor his family had been involved in the film industry before. Records, the elder, is convinced that the book will disappoint anyone looking for insight into the film or the filmmakers and offers it as a manifestation of his own anxieties; a collection of fears and reassurances, upon letting his son out into a world that is beyond his control. The book is available in a softcover edition for $45, or in softcover with a signed archival inkjet print of your choice (8" x 12" on 11"x 14" paper) for $120. Inquire for prints at other sizes. 54 photographsInterior page samples are: 1 (page 2), 2 (page 6), 3 (page 26), 4 (page 61) $45, softcover; $120 softcover with archival print. |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs by Lawrence Rinder Revenge of the Decorated Pigs (a novel) is an old-fashioned gay romp through the high stakes world of contemporary
art and commerce, written by the former Whitney Biennial
curator, Lawrence Rinder. The author calls it "a subjective
fever dream." Lawrence Rinder, director of the Berkeley
Art Museum, is the author of numerous essays, stories,
and poems. He often writes collaboratively with his friends. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs by Lawrence Rinder San Francisco artist, Colter Jacobsen, has made a limited edition series of covers for Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.
Numbered and signed, these unique pieces (bound to the pages of
Rinder’s book), each come with a small tipped in painting, also by Colter Jacobsen, also unique for each book. Copies are still available for $488. Your purchase is both an
investment in an accomplished young artist and a crucial investment in
our business, Publication Studio. Colter Jacobsen is represented by
Jack Hanley Gallery, USA, and Corvi-Mora Gallery, London. $488, limited edition softcover. |
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Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil. by Howard W. Robertson Two new poems for the New Year by Howard W. Robertson, author of Ode to certain interstates And Other Poems. "I wake to the river at dawn, and I feel a few million years young." $9, softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook |
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Capitalism Inside an Organization by Pravin J. Jain Pravin J. Jain was an executive vice president at Enron International during the years of that company's greatest expansion and catastrophic collapse. In this long essay, first commissioned and published by Clear Cut Press in 2003, he offers a sobering and positive assessment of capitalism's destructive powers and suggests that progressive goals such as social equity, innovation, and better living standards are best pursued through an unsentimental embrace of capitalism, as it was theorized by Adam Smith in the 18th century. $9 softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook. |
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Convivium by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Thomas Fisher Convivium is a collaboration between visual artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins (who was recently selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial) and poet Thomas Fisher, comprising photographs of Hutchins's sculpture, texts written by Fisher, and fragments of other texts selected by Fisher and Hutchins. The book changes occasionally, as Hutchins and Fisher feel moved or find time to change it. (Some of the interior page images, below, are partial...we're working on it.) $40, softcover. |
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Greatest Sips by Alex Brown and Evan George A lively and informed guide to buying fancy beer by the Los Angeles-based authors of the vegetarian food blog, Hot Knives. The book comes with a "radical Hot Knives bookmark," provided by the authors, with a URL for songs that "go well with the beers." $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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The Girl With Brown Fur by Stacey Levine The Girl With Brown Fur is Pen-West Award-winner Stacey Levine's
first collection of short fiction in over a decade. Levine is among the
most uncanny and original voices in American letters, bridging the
distance that separates Jane Bowles from Ben Marcus. Her previous
collection, My Horse and other stories, was published by Sun & Moon Press in 1992. She is the author of two novels, Dra—— (Sun & Moon Press, 1997) and Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press, 2005). This edition of The Girl With Brown Fur is a bootleg, published in October 2009 at the author's request, to provide quickly available books for as long as the original publisher is unable to print and fulfill book orders. Those interested in Publication Studio's bootlegs and the terms of that service should email inquiries to ps@publicationstudio.biz. $20, softcover. |
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Blush by Philip Iosca Blush is a 400-page book by Portland, Ore., artist Philip Iosca, comprising shifting saturations of pink. It can be read or browsed like a book or flipped through, like a flip book. It is large and heavy, like sculpture, colorful and planar, like a painting, plot-driven, like a novel, and pleasant to touch. The pages selected here are in sequence, but they occur in widely scattered parts of the book. A short video file, here, shows the book in motion. Blush is printed on glossy paper and bound in manila file-folders. $125, softcover |
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untitled by Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson Painters Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson made these small water color studies for a wall mural they painted at their neighborhood grocery store, the Cherry Sprout, in North Portland, Portland, Ore.. Each book in this edition of 31 comprises five original water colors, painted by Chris and Johanna on letterpressed pages from Lark Press (another North Portland neighbor), and perfect bound at Publication Studio. $45, softcover. |
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Shoot The Buffalo by Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American
Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class
hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut
Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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California Film: 1996 by Carter California Film: 1996 is New York-based artist Carter's storyboard for an early film project featuring a "fake person," a "furry person." and a chocolate ice cream bar, among other things. Laid out in Polaroids and post-it notes, the storyboard is also captioned by Carter, who created this book in September, 2009, for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time Based Art festival (TBA). Printed in digital color. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Scenes from a Hotel (volume one) by Joey Veltkamp Scenes From a Hotel is Seattle artist Joey Veltkamp's
ongoing series of ink and water drawings from Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.
Volume one focuses on some of the events in the hotel's new "Night
School" project, conceived and organized by Michael Hebb. $20, softcover. |
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Catalogue of Variable Essence by Ashby Collinson and Dana Dart-McLean Catalogue of Variable Essence is a collaboration between Portland, Ore., artists Dana Dart-McLean and Ashby Lee Collinson.
A combination of prose fragments, poetry, and drawing, each copy in the
edition of 10 contains two original paintings by Dana Dart-McLean. $330, limited edition softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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no. 1 by M Blash no. 1 is the first in a series of three books by film-maker M
Blash.
It combines writing, drawing, photography and film stills. M writes: "no.
1 is a diary of my first few days back in New York City after living in
my hometown of Portland, Oregon, for four years. Portland was super liberating;
I learned a lot and re-connected with a lot of old places, people and
feelings. The book documents my emergence into a city I knew well at one
time, but that now reads like a specter of my childhood, which was spent
for only scattered periods of time there." no. 2 and no.
3, also
by M. Blash, are forthcoming from Publication Studio. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Electric Aphorisms by John Roderick Electric Aphorisms is musician John Roderick's
narrative composed in 365 transmissions of 140 characters each. The
book (perfect-bound in distinctive sky blue, lavender, or rose file-folder stock) is
prefaced with an introduction by John Hodgman, composed similarly. John
Roderick also writes and plays music as The Long Winters. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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F.W.P.C.Y. by Kristan Kennedy Portland-based artist Kristan Kennedy created F.W.P.C.Y. (meaning "For World Peace Castrate Yourself") with designer Rob Halverson for the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. It presents her recent work in which newsprint is partially obscured under ink. $40, softcover. |
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Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha by Matthew Stadler Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha is a new novel by Matthew Stadler, the author of Allan Stein and Landscape: Memory. In a provincial Mexican capital a well-known expat gringa is found dead on a remote hillside. Narco gangs are suspected, but the real killer might be closer to home. The novel is a “cover” of another book, John Le Carre’s A Murder of Quality
(in the pop music tradition of cover songs, which are new renditions of
old standards). The author explains his precise method in a special
afterword to this unusual book. Interior pages include: 1 (page 1), 2 (afterword page 1), 3 (afterword page 2), 4 (afterword page 3). $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes by Isreal Lund Some, But Not All, of My Clothes is Portland artist Israel Lund's
collection of Xeroxed laundry that he occasionally issues in the form
of a zine. He created this perfect-bound edition for inclusion in
Publication Studio's "Portland Pavilion" at the 2009 Amsterdam
Biennale. The book can be bound in either green legal file-folder stock
or manila file-folder stock (the image to the left is of an interior
page). You can view a short video of the book here. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis by Aaron Peck The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis (a novel) is Canadian writer Aaron Peck’s
debut, concerning an archivist who goes missing somewhere between
Toronto and Vancouver, B.C. Our edition is bootlegged from the original
Pedlar Press edition, with the blessings of the author and Pedlar Press. $20, softcover. |
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Where We Live Now by Matthew Stadler Where We Live Now (an annotated reader) presents the work of urban planner Thomas Sieverts in a new English translation by Diana George together with selected
readings in urban theory and history. The readings collected here
inspect indigenous settlement patterns in North America for
pre-European examples of sustainable urbanism that is, in Sieverts’s
terms, “in-between” or decentered. Edited and annotated by Matthew
Stadler. $30, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. |
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Joy and Reffry by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell Joy and Reffry is a two-volume, full-color catalog documenting an art exhibition of the same name by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell,
co-published with Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Ore. Roy McMakin is an
artist and furniture designer. Jeffry Mitchell is an artist living in
Seattle, Wash. Fifteen copies were made and sold during the exhibition. $90, softcover. Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Greatest Sips (launch edition) by Alex Brown and Evan George To celebrate the January 30, 2010 launch of our finest beer book ever, Greatest Sips, by Alex Brown and Evan George, Publication Studio printed, bound, and packed thirty unique copies in a sealed box that was shipped from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, Calif., and back again. To be unpacked under the watchful eye of registered guards in our Portland warehouse, these thirty copies will be stamped, numbered and signed by the Publication Studio printing and binding crew. Greatest Sips (launch edition) is limited to these thirty signed and numbered copies and is available for sale exclusively on this site. $15, softcover. Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |