Alle Lieben Pedal

Beer halls and bike messengers: we can't think of a better combination. Pedal screens in Berlin on June 21, and we got our hands on the poster getting wheatpasted all over Germany.

Publisher's Publishers

Oooh yeeeeah. Even the industry is throwing some love to our Summer Workshop Series. Our boys at Anthem some it up nicely: we'll make you famous.

Great Moments in Extreme Irony vol 1

Whenever someone wants to comment on one of our posts, we get an email notification with the message and a "yes or no." Few might know this, but spam has grown past email, and has moved into the blogosphere. Spammers attempt to add comments like "Hey I found this cool site about Hoodia" or "C1AL1$$ Soft Tabs Melt Fat Away!!!!" Well today we received notice for this comment. In translation, it reads (excuse our poor French):

"We're often familiar with the domain of health. Nonisant is made without pesticides... Nonisant gives you the strength and vigor of savage fruits... For the cleanest and healthiest consumption, it's effective cold."

It's a comment on the first post about Great Moments in Spam. Metaspam has arrived.

Scene and Herd at BEA 2006

Introducing M. Suavé De Bonnair: the alter ego of our sales guy, Wes. For more of these photos trés enchanté, visit the online album we made.

Arkitip Floats Our Boat

Petey "The Pirate" Sutherland (so called because of his eye patch and scurvy: hi Peter!) sends word that the new issue of Arkitip has a section about his soccer crew Chinatown Soccer Club, and comes complete with a jersey! That could be useful on the open seas, we thinks. Arr ye limeys, avast! Petey's been Shanghai'ed!

Arkitip Floats Our Boat

Petey "The Pirate" Sutherland (so called because of his eye patch and scurvy: hi Peter!) sends word that the new issue of Arkitip has a section about his soccer crew Chinatown Soccer Club, and comes complete with a jersey! That could be useful on the open seas, we thinks. Arr! Avast! Petey's been Shanghaied!

BEAwesome

Just got some snaps back from Book Expo America, the annual industry conference. This year we partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi for a Lovemarks-themed booth. More to come...

Pedal Pushers

Well no one's really pushing, but we can hardly keep them things on the shelves. Maybe it's this guy?:



Photo by Peter Sutherland, from Pedal.

DUMBO Hearts pH Already

From an email this morning to our general box:

We are so thrilled at the thought of having your bookstore in DUMBO. We've been living at One Main for years and longing to be able to walk out the door and get a book, without Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Thank you so much and we'll be there for the opening!


Man, we can't wait to see what they say when we actually open in September!

Great Moments in Spam vol 12

Bonnie, Caro, your sweet, sweet songs are welcome in these trying times. Trim the sails! Avast ye hearties, to the siren's rock!

Get Yer Smart On With powerHouse

Lookout! The powerHouse summer workshop series is just around the corner! We've got a killer lineup this year, with classes taught by Daniel Power (Publisher, powerHouse Books), Kiki Bauer (Senior Deisgner, powerHouse Books), Sara Rosen (Publisher, Miss Rosen Editions, PR DIrector, powerHouse Books), and Nicholas Weist (Managing Editor, powerHouse Books). And you don't even have to buy a textbook...

Mermelly We Row Along

Far and away the artist most heavily featured on The powerHouse Books' 2006 Move blog, Jeff Mermelstein is a top pick because of his intense, witty, and sometimes ridiculous imagery. His book No Title Here is an insane trip down Jeff's personal rabbit hole, to a place where monkeys are addicted to porn, armadillos are racing animals, and this kind of satuff happens. He has a show opening tonight at Steven Kasher gallery. See you there.



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Start Picking Out Clothes Now

This weekend will be crazy—two parties, Brooklyn Design Fair, and a ton of other crazy stuff. First at bat is Tokion sponsoring a screening of Pedal at the Anthology Film Archives.



Then Lili Almog's show of work from Perfect Intimacy opens at Andrea Meislin Gallery. On top of all that, as previously mentioned, powerHouse is hosting Brooklyn Designs: a weekendful of homegrown, A-list genius. Whew. Dust off those party pants, 'cause you're gonna need 'em..

Business Wiretap

We had know idea there was so much philanthropy going on right under our noses! Or over our noses as the case may be. Not only is the big kahuna pretty civic-minded, but our vice principal is as well. Turns out he was on a scholarship panel for Datacolor and Parsons, as reported by Businesswire.

Great Moments in Spam vol 11

And in the body of the email?:

"Nice to see you!

I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) are bad.
Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..

My dog and I are still alive :)"

Phew. Good thing the prices are okay. —pH

Exhuming the Ridiculous

It's like a special on the Discovery Channel in here!

VRAHOS needled and needled even after they evicted us from our home. We thought it would end when we left, but ooh noo. We were wrong. VRAHOS dug up some old, angry bones this morning with a letter to our lawyer Neil. They're insisting that we pay two months of rent, for a period when we weren't even their tenant! Is there no end to their pillaging?



Photo by Jonathon Moller, from Our Culture Is Our Resistance.

Vanity Press to the Max

In case you haven't noticed, we loooove to congratualte ourselves. Not to be smug, but sometimes it's entirely warranted. In an effort to document the why and wherefor, we've created a page that catalogues our awards and accolades. Doesn't it feel great to win?

Speak of the Devil

Did you know that back in the days the phrase above indicated that someone had used "the speak of the devil," meaning they spoke a person's name to conjure them into their midst? Like when pH writes Joe Rodriguez's name on their blog and he suddenly appears in the office?! Joe just got back from Estonia, where he was teaching a seminar on photography. Maybe we should go there and teach a seminar on BLACK MAGIC!



Photo by Joe Rodriguez, from Flesh Life.

Art Fag Shag Rag

"MORE PORN IN ART!" is the cry echoing across the hallowed halls of the ivory tower today, as reported on by our fave sceney journo Art Fag City. She knows that pH reps for the porn set, though, and threw in a mention of Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City by Joe Rodriguez. Here's lookin' at you AFC:



Photo by Joe Rodriguez, from Flesh Life.

Form Follows Function: pH Hosts Design Fair

After very little deliberation, the Brooklyn Design Fair's higher-ups have decided that powerHouse will host their event in our new space at 37 Main Street. "It's everything AND the kitchen sink," says Gawker of last year's fair, and it's only gotten bigger, ahem, we mean better, since then. Check back for future updates, or visit them directly right here.

Thoughtlab 102

Photo by Helen Levitt, from Slide Show.

Not Just Another Trackstar

Remember when "Pedal Pushers" described pants, and not a group of crazed bike messengers, relentlessly promoting a form of cycling that includes NO BRAKES? Well these Pedal Pushers are supporting the premier of the documentary Pedal, which comes packaged with our epynomous book, so they're okay by us.