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CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN is a Brooklyn-based freelance music journalist whose work regularly appears in the Village Voice, RollingStone.com, Revolver and much more. In 2009 he vowed to review 1,000 new releases over Twitter. His acerbic, foul-mouthed speech at the 140 Characters Conference on the death of music criticism became a viral video smash, and brought enough attention to his project that it was covered in the New York Times, The Onion, Nashville Scene, Eye Weekly, Flavorpill and pretty much everywhere but Wired. At the end of 2009 Weingarten set out to collaborate on a book version of the Twitter reviews with us here at Article. The resulting book is not really a book at all. It is a physical representation of Twitter. Twitter in the raw. Each of Weingarten's 1,000 tweet reviews from 2009 will be individually typed out on to a single index card and the mass of the reviews, along with an introduction by Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield, will be held together in an oak index card catalog with a laser engraved "cover." The boxes are limited to an edition of 30, plus an artist's proof of sorts (a.k.a. the test box). To review, each box includes: "If you’re a fan of opinionated music criticism and/or comic brevity on the Web, you have probably encountered Christopher R. Weingarten" -- The New York Times "If there were a congressional medal for rock criticism, this year’s recipient would be Christopher R. Weingarten." -- Eye Weekly
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