I bought this book (in 2015) because I liked Pallasvuo’s comics — but this turned out to not be comics, so I forgot to read it.
Some of these quotes may not be real!
Hey, I’ve got copy 22/100 of this national bestseller.
It’s a series of short text, and they’re really interesting. They seem immediate and compelling.
And amusing.
One of the longest texts in the book is about not being let into a Wolfgang Tillmans party — Tillmans refuses him entry himself.
I really enjoyed the book.
The afterword explains what the book is — it’s a collection of texts from Pallasvuo’s Tumblr account, and now it all makes sense. Looks like it was shut down in 2016, but he’s still on Instagram.
Heh, while googling, I found Jaakko Pallasvuo School of Arts and Crafts — is that him? Is that site an art project? Or is it a common Finnish name?
Anyway, the book is very enjoyable, which makes me wonder whether there’s other Tumblrs out there that should have been collected into book form.
Scorched Earth (2015) by Jaakko Pallasvuo (buy used, 4.31 on Goodreads)
There was a blog by Airen about Berlin, drugs and techno, which was collected into the book “Strobo” after another up-and-coming author plagiarized several blog posts for “Axolotl Roadkill”. Certainly an experience to read, but not that good that I’d recommend it to other people.