MoviePass

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New HTML5 app, MoviePass, offers unlimited movies in the theatre for just $50 per month. A private beta launch is now operating in 21 theaters throughout SF’s Bay Area, and has already been in operation in NYC.

If Rocks Could Sing

An alphabet book illustrated entirely with stones found washed up on the shore

Ten years in the making, Leslie McGuirk’s latest children’s book, If Rocks Could Sing is now available. A simple A-is-for-apple approach to learning the alphabet is enhanced by the artist’s imagery of rocks that take form of both the letters and the words they describe. The project started when McGuirk moved to Florida and began taking long walks on the beach looking for shells. “All …

Andy Warhol Photobooth Pictures

A rare book of the pioneering pop artist's legendary photo strips

When Harper’s Bazaar commissioned Andy Warhol to do a layout for a feature on the arts in 1963, the artist turned to photobooths. The project launched a three-year obsession with the machines, resulting in images of himself, people he knew and famous faces of the era, as well as one of Warhol’s first commissioned portraits. Still the most cohesive reference on this period, “Andy Warhol …