Being a huge fan of Merkley??? — local photographer of local lovelies (and their strangely symmetrical couches and cats) — I am thrilled to bits and pieces to see pre-sales for his upcoming book “111???” become available. And, of course, to see the above Thanksgiving photo greeting that just went up on his Flickr photostream (here, use his guest pass so you can see all the good stuff).
Here’s a snip from his post about the book; the post has 11 big gorgeous sexy images selected for inclusion (browser resize warning). I love Merkely because he’s a visionary and makes teh sexy, but mostly because he says “minimalism is for quitters”, which I might get tattooed in reverse text on my forehead. Snip:
“When is it coming out?”
“1-11”
“You mean January 11th right? Where is the release party gonna be?
“111 minna gallery.”
“What time?”
“11pm”
“Word is that you decided to publish the book yourself because you don’t know how to read contracts and are afraid of book stores and libraries and getting porked by book business buttholes and that you’d instead rather print a super duper limited edition of them on your own so that you can make them big and heavy (11×14, 222 thick pages) and sign and number them like rare and collectable pieces of art that will most likely sell out lickety split and then you can wipe your hands of the whole deal and move forward into the sunrise while leaving your nice customers with a purchase that will certainly only grow in value from day one and within a few months each copy will be worth a million bucks OR MORE. Just how rare will they be? Exactly how many copies are you making?
“1111.”
Link.
* Note: Shipping and handling is $11.11.
