lifeserial:

If you’ll allow me just a second: Today is a big day for me. That’s the cover of the book that I made with Ian Dingman. And, starting now, it is available for PRE-ORDER!

Matthew’s blog is one of my favorites, so I’m more than happy to reblog the announcement of his first book, To Slow Down The Time. I know how it feels, and it’s kind of a big deal.

I mean, I realize that I’m on Tumblr and that means I should be all like, “Hooray, Internet!” But for me, right now, I think this is more of a feeling of “Hooray, Stuff I Can Touch!” It’s important to regularly run the risk of moving into the region of tangibility, and I’ve always felt particularly affected by work that offers more than just an ethereal sense of a person’s existence. The fact that Matthew bound the hardcover edition of his book by hand says something about that idea, and it made me think about how my extensive history with DIY fanzine culture and independent record labels intersects with how I view this project: This book is the reification of author as artifact, and that’s valuable.