koi

Then wrap the body,
as if it were a perfumed gift,
in pieces of silk
held together with invisible threads
like a kite, weighing no more
than a handful of crushed chrysanthemums.
Light enough to float in the wind.
You want the effect
of koi moving through water.
Ikebana, Cathy Song

Banned Books Week starts today. We’ll note efforts to censor books in public schools and libraries all this week; the American Library Association has a list of the 10 Most Challenged Books of 2006, which includes the story of two male penguins raising an orphan (this is apparently “anti-family”; better to let them be eaten by sea lions) and two books by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, “The Bluest Eye” and “Beloved”. Why not make the censors squirm and read one or two of these dangerous tomes this week?

Now see these:

• pinces à linge from clik & clak
• Oni dva from Martin Burda BÄ›lehrádek
• Typography from Becoming a Photographer
• Fenster from Mizomat