“Volume 1 is here! Limited edition paperback book featuring exclusive photographs taken by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne on tour with The Flaming Lips. Photos feature events such as the annual Halloween March of 1000 Flaming Skeletons, the St Gallen Festival in Zurich, Earth Day concert in Washington DC, the 2009 New Years Eve Concert in Oklahoma City, and many more!”

Some more network love on this Friday. Curated covers the latest from Yale University Press. “Salvador Dali: The Late Work complements an exhibition of the same name now on view at High Museum in Atlanta (nice web component, FYI). Dali’s output after 1940 has been consider repetitive and overly commercial. As such, scholarly discourse on the material has found it of less importance than his surrealist work. This exhibition and book reevaluates the period in which Dali distanced himself from Modernism.”

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While not the newest book on the market, John Pile of the Pratt Institute updated his A History of Interior Design book for a third edition in 2009. By the looks of it, the book is a fascinating look into a very old discipline of design. From Amazon: “A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space…John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology, and product design all overlap. These topics are woven together in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and renaissance palaces, to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth  century and the sleek interiors of modern skyscrapers.”

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American photgrapher Lee Friedlander takes to the American road in America by Car.“Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. This method allows for fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering wheels, dashboards and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches, monuments, suspension bridges, landscapes and often Friedlander’s own image, via sideview mirror shots. Presented in the square crop format that has dominated his look in recent series, and taken over the past decade, the nearly 200 images in America by Car are easily among Friedlander’s finest, full of virtuoso touch and clarity, while also revisiting themes from older bodies of work (Friedlander occasionally used aspects of automotive architecture in photographs from the late 1960s and early 1970s). Never has America been photographed so penetratingly and ingeniously as in Friedlander’s latest body of work.”

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Representative images from America By Car follow.

Edited by former Surfer editor and professional surfer Sam George, and with forward by fellow ex-pro Shaun Tomson, Surfer Magazine: 50 Yearscompiles a half-century of photographs and stories from sport’s definitive publication. Aside from rehashing spectacular moments in Surfer history, the book also unearths unused images and shares interesting behind the scenes tales. Design, people, travel and more are covered, enough to give the novice a primer on wave riding and the fanatic some encouragement to get back in the water.

Published by Chronicle. Available now from Amazon.

Nick knows my slight obsession with noise and sound in general. It is around us at all times, from the hum of a fan to the turbine of an engine. In Garret Keizer’s The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise, he explores sounds as a byproduct of human growth.

From the publisher, Perseus Books, “Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise provides a key for understanding some of our most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change.In a journey that leads us from the Tanzanian veldt to the streets of New York, Keizer deftly explores the political ramifications of noise, America’s central role in a loud world”

Available now from The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise.

Big news from the Michelin man, “Michelin will expand its exclusive hotel and restaurant guide series in North America to include Chicago. The MICHELIN guide Chicago 2010, the first-ever MICHELIN guide for a Midwest city, is scheduled to arrive in stores in November 2010.”

Not to slight my brother, who is former editor of Let’s Go, or the Lonely Planet series, but Michelin guides are a bit more our speed. And, it’s nice to get some Midwestern love.

Acquire points us at a massive new tome on the subject of comics. “DC Comics and Taschen have teamed up to publish the most extensive look through the history of the much storied company that brought the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader into existence. The massive, 720 page “75 Years Of DC Comics: The art Of Modern Mythmaking” reflects on the 75 year history of DC which chronicles everything from the writers and artists who brought the Justice League into the pages of thousands of comic books to the actors who brought the heroes to life on the big screen.”

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Brazilian designer Dalcacio Reis takes us through 180 innovative projects in Product Design in the Sustainable Era. The book, published by Taschen, celebrates and explores the rich range of eco-friendly designs hitting the market today. Bicycles (above), bottles, guitars, and paper are just a few of the items highlighted in the book. Each made, of course, through inventive use of recycled and sustainable material.

Available through Amazon. A few more page views from Product Design in the Sustainable Era after the jump.

Curated turns us onto this new book, entitled Build-on.

It’s Nice That has rebuilt its tightly edited webshop, an event that lends credence to pointing to one of the e-store’s offerings – Build-On.

Build-on celebrates the reclamation of space and the transformation of old buildings for new uses. Old churches become offices and residences. Bunkers and other bits of industrial waste too find new function. It is green architecture of a different kind, a recycling of the disused

Check out the spreads over at Curated.

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