I've been wanting to write about Stefan's Daily Monster book for ages, but felt, for some reason, that I ought to wait until you could get it in actual UK bookshops first. And then, we spotted it, in the Oxford Street, Borders. And you can get it at the UK Amazon. it's a fantastic thing, even more fantastic for those of us who've followed it from the beginning, seeing the idea arrive and take off. The book is also the story of the book, if you see what I mean. It's an excellent thing, a genuine and creatively successful product of the power of organising without organisations. I hope it sells and sells.
Funny, I just read your post on originality, then I ran into this. Had to laugh, as I have this gallery on flickr that I add to from time to time -http://tinyurl.com/67yo68 - yep, that's right, daily monster! To be fair Stefan seems to have made a bit better job of it than I have though. Also, your discussion of originality reminded me of this excellent edition of In Our Time -http://tinyurl.com/5nwyqt. In short, originality is perhaps an overvalued concept.
Posted by: Sam | June 10, 2008 at 11:20 PM