Quarantine Q&A: Glen E. Friedman w/ Johnny Temple of Akashic Books

from Akashic Books Official: Photographer Glen E. Friedman talks to Johnny Temple about keeping his eyes fresh, and the new editions of his Fugazi and DogTown books.
Keep Your Eyes Open - The FUGAZI photographs of glen E. friedman
DOGTOWN - The Legend of the Z-Boys go here to pick up these titles - SIGNED or 25% off direct from Akashic

http://www.akashicbooks.com/author/glen-e-friedman/

Thinking is a group activity

from Boing Boing:

Most of us vastly overestimate our understanding of how things work. We think we know more than we do. Why? Because we get by with a little help from our friends. (Sorry.) Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach explore why we think we're so smart in a new book titled The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. Over at Scientific American, Gareth Cook interviews Sloman about how thinking turns out to be more of a community activity.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS IDEA THAT WHAT WE KNOW IS “SOCIAL”?

People fail to distinguish the knowledge that’s in their own heads from knowledge elsewhere (in their bodies, in the world, and—especially—in others’ heads). And we fail because whether or not knowledge is in our heads usually doesn’t matter. What matters is that we have access to the knowledge. In other words, the knowledge we use resides in the community. We participate in a community of knowledge. Thinking isn’t done by individuals; it is done by communities. This is true at macro levels: Fundamental values and beliefs that define our social, political, and spiritual identities are determined by our cultural communities. It is also true at the micro-level: We are natural collaborators, cognitive team-players. We think in tandem with others using our unique ability to share intentionality.

Individuals are rarely well-described as rational processors of information. Rather, we usually just channel our communities.

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (Amazon)

New York Public Library turns subway cars into mobile ebook libraries

from Boing Boing:

Ten MTA cars have been outfitted as Subway Libraries by the New York Public Library: the in-car wifi connects riders to an e-reading repository containing "books, short stories, chapters and excerpts donated by publishers to the New York Public Library."

It's just one of the many excellent ways that NYPL is leading on ebooks, from lending patrons wireless hotspots ("borrow the entire internet!") to the world's greatest elending platform, to the world-beating public domain repository to the amazing, wall-climbing book-train!

“It used to be that you were ‘unplugged’ on the subway, and even though you’re connecting to the wireless now, you’ll still have the sense of being unplugged when reading books,” said Lynn Lobash, manager of reader services for the New York Public Library. “It’s a lot different than the frantic sense of checking your email or being on Twitter.”

Subway Library [NYPL]

New York Today: A City Library, on the Subway [Alexandra S Levine/New York Times]

There's A Word for Buying Books and Not Reading Them

from "OZY"
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE.
Because you won’t read this in a book … if you’re not reading your books.
Part of an occasional series on unusual words we wish we had in English.

Nick Carraway slinks away from Jay Gatsby’s party. In the library he comes across a drunken, bespectacled fat cat who starts going off about the books lining the walls. “They’re real,” he slurs, pointing to them. “What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too — didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?” Uncut pages! If you know how books used to be manufactured, this means one thing and one thing only: Gatsby wasn’t much of a reader. After all, until they’re cut, book pages can’t be turned.

Collecting books and not reading them is, shall we say, textbook behavior. At least for some of you, and you know who you are. Suffering from the condition of racking up book purchases of $100, $200 or $1,000 without ever bending a spine? There’s a Japanese word for you.



Prognosis: terminal. Stats reveal that e-reading doesn’t hold a candle to the joy of reading a physical book. Although e-book sales jumped 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, 2.71 billion physical books were sold in the U.S. alone in 2015, according to Statista. That’s compared with the 1.32 billion movie tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada. As if every American were reading an average of more than eight books annually.

Certainly, it’s unlikely you’re going to hear the word tsundoku on the subway. But in a language where there are words for canceling an appointment at the last minute and the culture-specific condition of adult male shut-in syndrome, how can you be surprised? Other, similar words like tsūdoku (read through) and jukudoku (reading deeply) are in praise of sitting down with a book (doku means “to read”). But we think tsundoku is particularly special: Oku means to do something and leave it for a while, says Sahoko Ichikawa, a senior lecturer at Cornell University, and tsunde means to stack things.

We all know one or two people who have this expensive but arguably harmless addiction (harmless unless your surname is Collyer, that is). We might even look in the mirror and see it. Bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin used to suffer from tsundoku, Elderkin says, before they began to cull their collections. They had a bad case: They stored books in poorly ventilated bathrooms and under the sink, “places where books, frankly, do not want to be,” Elderkin says. Perhaps there’s a reason for those of us still afflicted. Books can be a status symbol. Sometimes collectors acquire for nostalgia’s sake, says Susan Benne, executive director of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. Perhaps they read the books in childhood or adolescence, or the book becomes a symbol of a certain time in their life. Let’s be real: It is probably The Catcher in the Rye.

Who could blame the Japanese for having this word? Murakami books are awfully pretty, but those suckers can be long. Does anyone really read them?

How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better

from Boing Boing:

Leonard Richardson isn't just the author of Constellation Games, one of the best debut novels I ever read and certainly one of the best books I read in 2013; he's also an extremely talented free/open source server-software developer who has been working for the New York Public Library on a software project that liberates every part of the electronic book lending system from any kind of proprietary lock-in, and, in the process, made reading library ebooks one trillion times better.

Richardson explained his project in exciting detail at Restfest 2015 in Greenville, SC in a talk called "The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book," and has posted his talk slides along with notes to his site. I've been discussing Leonard's ideas in light of the proposal for an open library ebook platform that I made in Locus magazine this past spring. Both of us see a nonprofit, mission-oriented infrastructure for ebooks as critical to serving patrons best while protecting their privacy.

Richardson's talk makes the point that in the age of the web, we had hypertext that acted like, well, hypertext. Lots of people contributed to the web in lots of ways, and all those ways joined up, more or less painlessly. In the age of the app, that is virtually unheard of, and when it does occur -- as when Netflix and Twitter opened up APIs that turned into flourishing hothouses of third-party innovation -- it gets shut down without warning and with extreme prejudice.

Richardson's system actually works: they're using it in NYPL and many affiliated libraries. It makes reading ebooks from the library one trillion times better, and it lets anyone improve it, at anywhere in the stack -- it lets commercial suppliers play, too, but prevents them from locking libraries, publishers or readers in. It is a model of how mission-driven public agencies and nonprofits can be truly game-changing in online ecosystems that have been dominated by a single, monolithic corporation.

I'm going to start you off slow. Remember that there are three main vendors in the library ebook space. We did deals with two of them. Now that we've got the middleware in place, we can do a deal with the third vendor. We can license books from a third source without having to tell our patrons to install app #4 on their phones.

Okay, that's nothing to do with OPDS. Any kind of middleware would allow that sort of integration.

But then we decide we also want to offer Project Gutenberg books to our patrons. Unfortunately Project Gutenberg does not have an API. They have this ugly system where you have to use rsync to mirror the ebooks and then pull the metadata from a big RDF document.

So I write a simple content server, which rsyncs the ebooks and pulls the metadata and then offers a collection that is the equal, in quantity if not in quality, of the commercial collections. But instead of making up a custom API for my collection to talk to the middleware, the way the commercial vendors did, I use the API I already have—OPDS.

So now I'm using OPDS for machine-to-machine integration, not just to talk to the patrons. I can use this protocol whenever I am talking about books or collections of books.

Now other sources of free ebooks want to get in on the action. unglue.it is mostly an aggregator for Creative Commons books and other open-access books that aren't a hundred years old. Standard Ebooks is a little org that makes really nice editions of public domain ebooks, because Project Gutenberg ebooks have really horrible formatting.

So I told those people: you generate OPDS feeds, and I'll slurp them up into my content server, they'll show up in our collection and patrons will be able to download them. And that's what they did. I haven't set up my part of it yet, the part that slurps, because I haven't had time, but it's going to work.

At that point the OPDS protocol is doing machine-to-machine integration across organizational boundaries. It's hypermedia API heaven!

The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book [Leonard Richardson/Crummy]

The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles is a cool, huge indy bookstore

via Boing Boing:

This short documentary focuses on the life of Josh Spencer, owner and operator of “The Last Bookstore”, located in Downtown Los Angeles. Against the closure of massive bookstore chains and the rise of eReaders, Josh has been able to create a local resurgence of the printed word. We explore his life as a father, husband, small business owner, and paraplegic, as well as the store’s magnetic attraction of the community.

MY RULES book enters it's THIRD printing and JAY-BOY book is being re-issued next year!

Today i was up at the Rizzoli books International offices to see how the re-issue of the JAY-BOY / Kent Sherwood book was coming along (out next spring) and it's looking good! This is more than a reprint of the super rare incredible book of photos taken by Jay's Stepfather Kent, of Jay, before most anyone else had photographed him. Great book I designed and help get published back almost 10 years ago. It's got a complete overhaul and few new photos too.

I also spent some time in the conference room comparing the third printing (just released last month) to the first two printings ... All look great but inevitably the latest always seems to get a little better - unfortunately I found a few more typos too, been there all along... If you find any lemme know for the next printing update... Yeah, that's my phone.

here's some photos of the three printings being compared to each other on friday . . .


See the photographs as they are meant to be seen! This book is huge, 324 pages, 13wide x 11.5tall, weighs in at almost 8lbs. The best of my books FUCK YOU HEROES and FUCK YOU TOO + about 30% more you've never seen, all bigger and better than ever!

Surprise revival in UK printed book sales, with ebooks dipping

from BoingBoing

Ink on paper is a better product, at least for now, and it's showing at British tills. Sky UK's Lucy Cotter reports the first better year for print since 2007, and the worst one for ebooks since 2011.

Last year saw the first rise in sales since 2007, while digital book sales dropped for the first time since 2011.

Betsy Tobin, who runs the independent bookshop Ink@84 in Highbury, London, offers her customers a personalised service.

The bookshop offers coffee and alcohol and runs events and special author evenings.

Diversifying is part of her success but she says her customers also like buying in person rather than online.

They take pleasure from handling and owning books, she said.

I wonder if this has something to do with how well-run major UK bookstore chains are (small stores in high-traffic areas) compared to American ones (strip-mall big boxes, full of trashy ancillary merch and empty of foot traffic.) The literary retail culture there makes people want to drop in and fuss around with books, while the one here just means no-one is ever in a bookstore in the first place, so they just order stuff on Kindle.

Ruby Roth has a new book! HELP YOURSELF: COOK BOOK FOR KIDS

from:WeDontEatAnimals.com

Wish your kids would eat healthier? Try letting them help themselves!

The best way to teach children healthy eating habits is to involve them in the process.

Help Yourself presents 60+ irresistible recipes kids will beg to make themselves! Bursting with full-color photos, humor, Ruby’s charming illustrations, cute animal characters, and cool facts (did you know your brain actually shrinks when you’re dehydrated? Drink water, quick!), Help Yourself empowers children* to take charge of their own nutrition—for now and for life!

*Help Yourself also makes a great gift for busy/lazy adults.



FAQ's:

Is this book for vegan kids only?
Help Yourself is absolutely made for all kids to enjoy, regardless of current eating habits...the recipes just happen to be plant-based!

Will picky eaters like these recipes?
Everything about this book is specially designed to excite and engage kids, even the pickiest of eaters. The pictures are inspiring and the directions encourage taste-testing, making it irresistible for kids to try their own creations...and it works! The feedback from parents has been amazing—kids are getting into the kitchen and making and tasting things they never thought they would—and asking for seconds, no less!

I like this book, but I'm an adult...is that weird?
No! This is a kids book, but mostly in name and ease! It's a great gift for busy/lazy adults, or really anyone who likes simple, natural, easily accessible whole-food ingredients and recipes that can be made in minute

Ian Svenonius is (still) the most interesting man in Washington DC

from The Washington Post

Local punk music icon and author Ian Svenonius will discuss his newest book on Tuesday. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post)
Ian Svenonius has led an incredible string of bands over the years — Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Chain and the Gang — but the D.C. punk frontman’s bibliography is slowly catching up with his discography.

If you’re smart enough to have made room for his work on your shelves, Svenonius might consider you an ally in the fight against Apple’s cloud-based “anti-stuff” ideology. As he writes in his latest book, “The hit TV show ‘Hoarders’ (A&E) identifies people with things as socially malignant, grotesque, primitive, dirty, bizarre. In a word: poor. Apple has turned the world upside down in making possessions a symbol of poverty and having nothing as a signifier of wealth and power.”

[Ian Svenonius, the most interesting man in rock-and-roll]

That kind of anti-authoritarian, half-winking intelligence fills every page of “Censorship Now!!,” Svenonius’s newest collection of essays. To answer your first question, yes, he really argues for censorship in hopes that it will “stop the radio from spewing its vomit” and prevent the mainstream media from creating “a fantasy version of world events and the intellectual framework for mass murder.” And to answer your second question, yes, he is serious — but also maybe not, in that Svenonius’s writing always has blended academic bluster and conspiracy theory into a sophisticated and singular brand of satire that ultimately points toward the truth.

And while putting a copy of this book on your nightstand would be a sign of good taste, who cares about good taste? Are you willing to be seen reading a book titled “Censorship Now!!” in public? If so, your skin might burn with funny glances from squares, scolds and looky-loos. But on the inside, you’ll feel your brain throbbing as it swells to accommodate some hilarious, absurd and radical new strategies on how to live in our ridiculous world.

REVOLUTION BOOKS in NYC Needs help once again...

I've had some great experiences in this store over the years, including a great public talk a couple of years ago, it obviously needs to exist. Help if you can. Thank you.
- GEF

Revolution Books has signed a lease for a new storefront and is making a big move to Harlem. Now the fight is on to ensure that the most radical bookstore on the planet re-opens in September. Donations to this $30,000 Indiegogo drive will go towards the immediate expenses of renovating the new space at 437 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue). This Indiegogo campaign is part of Revolution Books’ larger multi-pronged $150,000 emergency fundraising effort, which includes reaching out to people with more money for big donations, and organizing fundraising events.

Already, hundreds of friends of RB have made donations of $5 to $5000. But re-opening Revolution Books depends on hundreds more contributing. You. Be part of saving this unique bookstore that is at the center of the movement for revolution. This is about changing everything.

Revolution Books fills a great need
Revolution Books is a bookstore for the whole world.

An epidemic of police murder of innocent Blacks and Latinos … 2.3 million in US prisons... a global war on women ... endless US Wars for Empire … immigrants demonized and worse... the planet's air, water, and land destroyed by the ravages of this system.

This is why Revolution Books is needed more than ever: RB is the place where people come from all over the world to find the books and the deep engagement about why the world is the way it is and the possibility of a radically different way the world could be. Scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary, Revolution Books is at the center of building a movement for revolution.

What will happen at the new Revolution Books

This new, relocated Revolution Books will be filled with people of all nationalities and ages, wrangling with the biggest questions facing humanity – getting into the poetry, novels, history, philosophy, science that fill the shelves, as well as provocative children's books that promote values of cooperation and understanding. The intellectual and cultural life at Revolution Books is marked by a critical thinking like nowhere else.

Click here:
HELP RE-OPEN REVOLUTION BOOKS ASAP

The Art of Letterpress | Crafting a beautiful book

via Boing Boing



The Folio Society interviewed master printer Stan Lane about the classic craft of letterpress printing. "Feeling print in paper... you know someone's actually been there."

Fun fact from the film: Lane says we call it a type face because a physical piece of type has a foot, a body, a shoulder, and a face. The face is the only part that gets pressed into the paper.

How books used to be made (video) The Art of Book Making

MY RULES the book Great events wrap up from end of last month

The book hasn't even been out for a month yet, and if you read this blog at least every couple of days and don't have the book yet (unless you're waiting to get it from someone else for a holiday gift), you should be ashamed of yourself. The book is fucking incredible, if i don't say so myself. It's the first pressing and there are a few typos but as my editor at Rizzoli said, "it happens" - that said the book looks fucking amazing, the essays are all fucking amazing, and those little typos in yours may just prove you had the good taste before anyone else to get in on the book in it's first printing before most other people you know. You read this blog, so again I'm assuming you're getting it soon. If you haven't yet. And if you have, how about a review up on your favorite site, or where you purchased it? Thanks.

I look forward to hearing about everyone's stoke and inspiration as they finally get to see it and live with it.

In the mean time we've had three great events so far where i went and signed books for people, we showed the video of Ian and I talking about some of the pictures in the book, and i've had some great Q&A sessions with some of you, good shit talking, laughing and stories exchanged. I don't know where we will do one of these next, but so far in Brooklyn, and two in the Los Angeles area were all a blast... and we also sold out of all the books at each event!

Thanks to those who came by and those of you who got the book so far, I am happy to be inspiring as i have always strived to do.

Here's a few clips from the west coast events and some stills from the bash in Brooklyn.

best,
GEF






(Both videos made by Laura Rudich)


Brooklyn at the powerHouse arena (click any image to enlarge):

Watching the screening with my son and many friends just before the talk.



I was lucky enough to have my great friend, Author, Musician, Ian F. Svenonius
as our ace conversationalist extraordinaire/moderator for the evening...



Old timer and old friend John Woodstock showed up as a big surprise. John was probably the first professional skateboarder in the entire north east. We asked him to come up and tell a story or two. It was great to see him, it was probably more than 35 years since i had last hung out with him... Stoked!



Mark "The Gonz" Gonzales also came out to support, he asked one of the first questions of the night, classic as always...
Did i say "classic"? i meant "character" as always



The King "DMC" also came out to support, and sign some books for the folks.



and the board Jim "Red Dog" Muir donated to the raffle powerHouse arena held
for all those who bought their copies of MY RULES in house that night.



Let the signing begin! I was there for almost 2 hours after the talk signing books for all the cool people who came through, great night, great friends, and fucking great vegan food from the incredible Brooks Headly - sorry no food porn, but he hooked it up crazy!



(thanks to Taji Ameen for most of these photos)

’What Every Child Needs To Know About Punk Rock’ is a real children’s book that actually exists

from Dangerous Minds

The Ramones’ 40th anniversary celebration just happened at Bowery Electric last weekend, and the last living original member of the band died, aged 65, just a couple of months short of being able to attend. Punk rock is OLD, and yet, through generations, it persists. As ways for a kid to rebel go, punk has been extraordinarily durable and flexible. Its most basic and superficial tropes were long ago rendered cartoonish or outright mainstreamed, but the defiant outlook they express is eternal.



Eh, why not? It’d beat them turning Juggalo.

>The very idea of punk as a staid cultural institution, let alone toddler-book fodder, might be met with wounded howls of opposition from some circles—as it should be—but again, 40 years. There are OG punks who are grandparents now. I have an 11-year-old Godson who spent his infancy decked out in Ramones and DK’s onesies. So as weird and implausible as a children’s book frankly explaining punk may sound at first blush, one could make a case that by now, it’s pretty well overdue. What Every Child Needs To Know About Punk Rock was released about a week before the Ramones’ 40th anniversary show, and it’s actually kind of awesome. I’ll let these spreads speak for themselves.





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The book is credited on the cover to “Brad and Marc.” Sounds pretty casual, but both of them are highly credentialed.  Marc is researcher and healthcare analyst Marc Engelsgjerd, and Brad is child behavior expert R. Bradley Snyder. The two have co-authored several books in this series, penning What Every Child Needs To Know About board books on a topics as trivial as pizza and coffee, and as serious as cancer and the economy. I can think of a few adults in pretty dire need of that last one.



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Spreads reproduced with permission from Need to Know Publishing

EVENT SIX DAYS FROM TODAYI will be doing a book signing in Brooklyn at the PowerHouse Arena

Mark you calendar! Come on down! Ian Svenonius will be moderating if any special guests show up besides him, and if not he'll moderate between your questions and myself! Infamous punk rock drummer/five star chef Brooks Headley will be hooking us up with his renowned mini vegan burgers, and for those of you who actually buy a book at the event itself you'll be included in a raffle for a DogTown skateboard signed by Jim "Red Dog" Muir and Jeff Ho!

For more info and or directions check this link:
MY RULES Tuesday September 23rd 7-9pm

Spread the word! Thank you!

GEF

MY RULES NEW BOOK OFFICIALLY RELEASED TODAY!

MY RULES, The book, is officially being released on the 20th anniversary of FUCK YOU HEROES original publication. TODAY!

This book is being released by RIZZOLI international publications – our first ever collaboration with a major publisher.

It's a mother fucking, ass kicking, monster!

Hard cover – 11.5″ tall by 13″ wide – 324 pages

You are going to LOVE IT! Of this I am sure.

It will contain the best of both FUCK YOU HEROES (out of print for almost two years now) and FUCK YOU TOO (out of print for over three years now).

But it won’t just be a rehash, because the images will be larger than ever! 
Many as full bleed, and up to 300% of the there originally published size,
with scans better than ever, for more detail than ever,
 for many of the most classic photographs GEF has ever created.

PLUS over 30% of the book will be never before published work (over 100 never before published photographs)!

There will also be essays from many of my favorite and most respected and interesting subjects over the years,
 speaking truths that will inspire you, without a doubt.

Contributors include:

TONY ALVA
IAN MacKAYE
ICE-T
LANCE MOUNTAIN
HENRY ROLLINS
LL COOL J
DUANE PETERS
KEITH MORRIS
CHUCK D.
RODNEY MULLEN
RAKIM ALLAH
JAY ADAMS
MILO AUKERMAN
DARRYL McDANIELS
ALAN “OLLIE” GELFAND
JELLO BIAFRA
RICK RUBIN
JEFF HO
TONY (CADENA) BRANDENBURG
ADAM HOROVITZ
GARY “DR. KNOW” MILLER

Introductions by
C.R. Stecyk III and Shepard Fairey

Afterwords by
Lisa Fancher and Gary Harris

GO CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

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— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 19, 2014

@glenefriedman I got my copy of My Rules today. A stunning work of art, so inspirational. Thank you.

— Captain Badbeard (@captainbadbeard) September 8, 2014

Longtime friend @glenEfriedman's book "My Rules" is out TOMORROW! Check out the incredible photos & the frwd I wrote. http://t.co/e5SFgFh5Wt

— Shepard Fairey (@OBEYGIANT) September 15, 2014

Появились в правильной компании в книге @glenefriedman pic.twitter.com/qws5TTaQJH

— Надя Толоконникова (@tolokno) July 22, 2014

#MYRULES damn this book is fucking huge @glenefriedman http://t.co/W2eiPceGGK

— Brian Knoess (@boknyc) September 5, 2014

saw 1st advance, surpasses hype http://t.co/fQgRZFkX6i 324pp.11.5x13" pre-discount> http://t.co/7fd4A48dck Pls. RT! pic.twitter.com/EFI60TgFoI

— glen E. friedman Ⓥ (@glenefriedman) July 21, 2014

My friend @GlenEFriedman's amazing new book is on cheap pre-order sale here http://t.co/yfZz2hkFCD at amazon, get it! http://t.co/mZjAry0r6V

— Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) August 3, 2014

Can't wait to get my hands on this book // Ian MacKaye & @glenefriedman talk 'MY RULES' // http://t.co/ETL7SC8CYp

— Chip Kalback (@ChipKalback) August 21, 2014

Glen E Friedman #MYRULES a must get book. My 1st show pic to left.. Nations Hoodie Alt to the right pic.twitter.com/znHmFrieaz

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) August 19, 2014

Clever Ikea ad treats print as a new technology: 'Experience the power of a bookbook'

"At only 8mm thin, and weighing in at less than 400g, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue comes pre-installed with thousands of home furnishing ideas."


Thanks, Boing Boing

Ian MacKaye and I discuss some of the photos in my forthcoming book. (video)

Advance copies of the book MY RULES have been trickling out into the hands of a few scattered press sources and those folks who have contributed to the book in one way or another. I am so happy that the reactions and responses have been phenomenal. As i've said before, i really can't wait for y'all to see it. it's a monster! Official release date is September 16th.

You can get all the details you might want about it here on my web site at a special link we set up MyRules.info and if you like, you can pick it up as a greatly discounted pre-order HERE.

Below is the short film I told you all about a few months back that Ian and I did with my friend and film maker Eric Matthies, I think you may like it. If the response is good enough perhaps we'll put together a longer version of the afternoon talk, Please let us know what you think ;-)




Thanks for your appreciation and support, it's been an INSANE week.

MY RULES - The Book Is being delivered done to the publisher today

My new book has an official release of Sept 16th, 2014



here's the page on the publisher's website RIZZOLI, they just posted recently.