Bookshelves by colour

This one might especially interest Lily (whose colour-coordinated window displays are a popular and regularly-changing feature of the shop). At COLORlovers, there's a very nice blog post, Organizing bookshelves by color, on just this subject. It cites the Rainbow of Books Flickr group, which has further pretty examples. Perhaps the most ambitious example, though, was in 2004 when the artist Chris Cobb persuaded Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, to let him reclassify its used book section (some 20,000 books) on this basis as a public installation called "There Is Nothing Wrong In This Whole Wide World". Here are some pictures.

- Ray

The Drop

Stephen Clarke has kindly made available on YouTube The Drop, a short film he directed in 1997 for Angelcast Productions; it won the 'best director' class at the Yaraslovl Film Festival. Written by Joel Segal and Simon Persighetti, it features Gabriella Woodcock and the late John H Bartlett, and was filmed in Topsham, in and around Joel Segal Books.

See the John H Bartlett blog, which preserves John's artistic and theatrical website.