Duncan Fallowell's new book How To Disappear: A Memoir For Misfits is now due out mid-August (preferably before the 12th) from Ditto Press. Nazareno Crea, who has designed the book, was inspired to make this short film with Stewart Smith to accompany it. Click arrow once to watch on this site before sitting back with a glass of opiate.
17 comments:
trippy
Light -colour- many different shapes - I hope the future's like this, but the world seems to be going the opposite way, to a dark conformism
Jelly Beans meets Lego. My childhood.
Dark conformism? Bollocks. It was the past that was like that
On Amazon the book seems to have disappeared without even appearing - the ultimate media magic
Not if you click the link. Must I do everything?
I want to be called Nazareno Crea too
Iz good but prefer Souxsie moozik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvscxrNPfWQ
dayglo constructivist - or do I mean neon suprematist?
Where's the sex?
The Arabs of my acquaintance don't like this for some reason. I wonder why.
Like but take out the brown ones. No, I'm not a racist. I put that demand in all my riders.
Great film to promote the book. It should be played in select book stores round the country, would get people thinking. Good luck!
Being a person of the Concrete, I don't hold with the Abstract. Should there is a limited kid leather edition to adorn the Drawing Room, One would MUCH prefer a Daguerreotype cover capturing the Pulchritudinous flesh of a Young Gentleman in the first flush of Youth... perhaps garnished with a thin layer of feely Flock.
in the outer reaches of the cosmos a young man opened a book andwas never the same again -
Ditto are obviously a bit special because no current British publisher could come up with something like this in a million years.This film is just a light genius touch which sees the appearance of a book as something special, not merely some grinding marketing trudge.
The art scene thrives on originality, springing surprises, being unique. But British book publishing is sclerotic with third-rate conformism and the lowest possible banality. It's utterly sexless. Publishers are terrified of anything which might be art or literature and they sneer at any evidence of quality or originality. There is not a single publisher on the British scene of real calibre. The bogus practices, such as concocting books in-house to attach to celebrity names, is in my view as disgusting as the phone-hacking practices which are now emerging in newspapers. The cynicism and venality are horrifying.
It all amounts to operating without the slightest sense of honesty or cultural ambition. Authorship is now too often a con trick perpetrated on the public by squalid operators. I think publishers who do this should be prosecuted under the trades description act.Publishers excuse themselves by saying they have to do it in the present climate, but it's not true - it's got so bad that they don't WANT to publish real books any more. A real author terrifies them. As for design and packaging of British books - it couldn't be more awful - they haven't a clue.
It seems to me that Ditto are young and imaginative and on the side of quality - I hope they are the beginning of a new vitality. British publishing has never been lower than at present. The current crop of publishing heads have deliberately destroyed everything that was superb in the British literary scene and the sooner they are history the better. Death of the book? Of course not. Death of the present generation of British publishers? Bring it on.
Is DF a misfit? At parties he darts from bloom to bloom, hovering here and there; his books get published and papers run his reviews and journalism. That he is not PAYE-employed does not make him a misfit. Perhaps the title of his book should be, How To Disappear: A Memoir For Library Users.
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