PRISM index: Handmade Mixed Media Art Book — by Jeffrey Bowers

“We’ve been on this show thirty seven times, and I’ve never asked you: do you like R&B music?”

Thus begins the totally bizarre, frequently animated, surrealistic pitch video for PRISM index, a handmade, mixed-media book which combines a CD (rare, unreleased recordings, contemporary tunes, etc) with a DVD and the printed word. Three issues in, founder Jeffrey Bowers has made it his business to be meticulous as all hell with the physical form — handmade pages, hand-bound editions, hand-stamped covers — and he’s definitely no slacker as a curator. Past issues have included Jay Rosenblatt, Bill Plympton, Mountain Man, Wooden Wand, Michael Hurley, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Amy Lockhart, Trinie Dalton, and … do you want me to go on?!

Get into it.