Listening to Bowie this morning, thinking about a painter from Pittsburgh.
Scott Blake's digital pointillism might be making a weighty statement about how we have trapped ourself in the measured black-and-white of the automated world, or he might be making cool collages. Or both.
The Palo Alto Daily News ran a story reporting that the Redwood City Public Library has learned a lesson from San Francisco. Librarians preparing for the upcoming $45,000 renovation of the Schaberg Community Library simply discarded unwanted titles, and did not coöperate with a local resident who tried to take them to other community organisations.