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iconoclassic: nevver: Movie Poster of the Week Striking...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:01:35 +1000

iconoclassic:

nevver: Movie Poster of the Week

Striking Spanish poster for A Clockwork Orange

torteen: littledallilasbookshelf: Brentwood Library,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:40:27 +1000

torteen:

littledallilasbookshelf:

Brentwood Library, Tennessee

What an amazing library.

Via Cory Doctorow’s tumblr.

From BibliOdyssey: Edo Views Yatsumi Bridge “Although...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:22:06 +1000

From BibliOdyssey: Edo Views

Yatsumi Bridge

“Although Yatsumi Bridge literally means “Eight-View Bridge,” a more accurate translation would be “Eight-Bridge View” since from it one could see eight different bridges, including Yatsumi itself, on which the viewer is standing. This bridge was one of the busiest in Edo and joined the mouth of the Nihonbashi River with the outer moat of Edo Castle. So heavily traveled was the bridge that its southern approach served as the site of a stone post on which notices of lost children were pasted. The only allusion to this bustling site in an otherwise placid scene is the two parasols moving along at the lower left. [..]

A luxuriant willow frames the upper right of the placid scene, its elegant branches drooping low into the composition. Below, two men slowly pole a boat stacked with kindling while solitary fishermen, their boats tied to anchor poles, dip square nets into the shallow water. In the middle distance, Edo Castle stretches the width of the view, and Mount Fuji lies on the horizon with its customary majesty. A pair of swallows gracefully course in the summer sky. If we had actually been standing at the viewpoint Hiroshige has created, we would have experienced a bustle that the artist only alludes to in the two parasols moving across the bridge at the lower left. This is Ichikoku Bridge, one of the busiest in Edo, where the mouth of the Nihonbashi River joined the outer moat of the castle. So heavily traveled was the bridge that its southern approach served as the logical site for a stone post to which notices for lost children were pasted; the post which survived at the site today is dated 1857, one year after Hiroshige’s view was published. Yatsumi Bridge, the alternate name of Ichikoku Bridge that is used in the title, literally means “Eight-View Bridge,” but it more accurately translated ‘Eight-Bridge View,” since from this point fully eight different bridges were visible- including the one we are standing on. Two more may be seen in this view - Zenimake Bridge in the foreground and (barely) Dosan Bridge beyond. Out of sight are Tokiwa Bridge to the right , Gofuku and Kaji Bridges to the left, and Nihonbashi and Edobashi Bridges (see print 43 of the series) directly behind us. This scene is utterly transformed today. The moats to left and center have been filled in, and the curve of the Nohinbashi River lies in the shadow of an elevated highway. The purplish horizontal streak in the center of Hiroshige’s view is now Marunouchi, Tokyo’s central business district. It is hard to believe that it was actually possible to fish here, in the very center of the city.” [source]

Le Fils du Roi - 50 Watts Eric Lambé is a pioneering figure in...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:47:52 +1000

Le Fils du Roi - 50 Watts

Eric Lambé is a pioneering figure in the modern Franco-Belgian movement towards a more poetic expression of the comics form, drawing from broader traditions of drawing, painting and printmaking. Active since the 1990s, Lambé has produced a number of books, both alone and in collaboration, for publishers large and small. His masterpiece Le Fils du Roi (“The King’s Son”) was published byFrémok last year. The book refers to pieces by Balthus, Picasso, and other high art touchstones, but their inclusion here seems to be as personal to Lambé as the highly specific objects, gestures and dreamlike images that constitute this jaw-dropping and mesmerizing work. The original artwork for this book was exhibited at Paris’s Galerie Martel this past winter, and Lambé will make a rare North American tour this spring.

classicamericanlit: Black and white photograph of poet Walt...

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:59:53 +1000

classicamericanlit:

Black and white photograph of poet Walt Whitman by the American painter and photographer Thomas Eakins, April 1887. Image courtesy of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. via.

"How exactly does the technology we use to read change the way we read? How reading on screens..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:39:22 +1000

“How exactly does the technology we use to read change the way we read? How reading on screens differs from reading on paper is relevant not just to the youngest among us, but to just about everyone who reads—to anyone who routinely switches between working long hours in front of a computer at the office and leisurely reading paper magazines and books at home; to people who have embraced e-readers for their convenience and portability, but admit that for some reason they still prefer reading on paper; and to those who have already vowed to forgo tree pulp entirely. As digital texts and technologies become more prevalent, we gain new and more mobile ways of reading—but are we still reading as attentively and thoroughly? How do our brains respond differently to onscreen text than to words on paper? Should we be worried about dividing our attention between pixels and ink or is the validity of such concerns paper-thin?”

- (Emergent Futures Tumblelog)

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens

From Scientific American.

mostlysignssomeportents: Crayons with grit via Cory Doctorow...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:22:00 +1000

mostlysignssomeportents:

Crayons with grit

via Cory Doctorow on Tumblr.

explore-blog: On occasion, I write pretty well. In which...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:14:58 +1000

explore-blog:

On occasion, I write pretty well.

In which young Kurt Vonnegut, still relatively obscure, volunteers his services to JFK’s presidential campaign. Pair with Vonnegut on the shapes of stories, his daily routine, and his 8 keys to the power of the written word.

(↬ Open Culture)

mythologyofblue: Ernst Haeckel, Lichens, 1904

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:07:02 +1000

mythologyofblue:

Ernst Haeckel, Lichens, 1904

Harper Lee sues over copyright in NY

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:17:00 +1000

Harper Lee sues over copyright in NY:

Via David Grann on Twitter.

Giving It Away

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:21:27 +1000

Giving It Away:

paythewriters:

“It’s hard to insist upon the sanctity of your profession when there’s abundant, sometimes embarrassing evidence of its continued debasement. Writers have always been vulnerable to moments of desperation, but now I think we’re actually starting to reek of it. And is it any wonder? It’s gone way past ‘internships,’ ‘work experience,’ ‘giving back, ‘retraining,’ and all the other euphemisms we have for not getting paid. Now really experienced people – industry leaders with exceptional skills – are routinely presented with the unbelievably obnoxious opinion that they should be happy and grateful to work for nix…”

Great piece from Diana Jenkins at the Varuna Alumni blog.

"A titchy plastic slide jutting out of a cardboard tree was never going to cut the mustard...."

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:36:17 +1000

“A titchy plastic slide jutting out of a cardboard tree was never going to cut the mustard. “But it is supposed to be a spiral slide!” one 32-year-old reporter could not help exclaiming at Thursday’s launch. “I know,” said Gillian Rennie, senior curator at Seven Stories, “but you wouldn’t believe the health and safety issues we had just getting this one in.””

- Fans are disappointed easily.

Enid Blyton exhibition celebrates prolific writer’s imagination | Books | The Guardian

"‘Prizes are all about making the near-invisible (so much terrific writing is published with barely a..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:29:04 +1000

“‘Prizes are all about making the near-invisible (so much terrific writing is published with barely a mention in our media) visible to a wider audience,’ reflects Martin Shaw. ‘No contemporary book judge can be unaware of the historical foreshortening of perspective as to which gender produces the most significant literature. So it bodes well for the future of Ozlit, and its critical recognition, that the playing field is becoming ever more level.’”

- A note to self: a list of what we are missing, what we have missed. This is sometimes done at the end of the year… it should be done more often.

The Miles Franklin shortlist for 2013 has been announced - and it’s the year of the women writers - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas

David Mitchell interview - Radio National Book Show

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:16:26 +1000

David Mitchell interview - Radio National Book Show :

To:Listen.

Hehe, it’s from 2010. And the Book Show is dead, which is not funny at all.

A Different Stripe: In the Freud Archives

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:11:40 +1000

A Different Stripe: In the Freud Archives:

nyrbclassics:

They felt that I had been taken up by Eissler and Anna Freud and other powerful members of the international analytical community very unfairly—not because of any objective qualities I had but because of a certain psychopathic personality charm. It incensed them. They would say to me, ‘I have spent my life trying to get one letter of Freud’s, and you go there and Anna Freud opens up her father’s bloody desk to you. Why? Why you, you little son of a bitch? What did you ever do?’

Helen Garner has just praised Janet Malcolm to the skies in one of our papers. So I will buy this now, having rediscovered it in my drafts here.

"During a conference last year, I was asked by a visiting academic from Bangalore to take a picture..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:06:07 +1000

“During a conference last year, I was asked by a visiting academic from Bangalore to take a picture of him standing at the lectern where JM used to teach, as if it were a tourist snap in front of the Little Mermaid. The same lecture theatre – wooden, antique, hidden in the middle of the ivy-clad Arts block – had been used in the filming of Disgrace (2008). Our head of department (my boss) landed a role as an extra, listening to David Lurie (John Malkovich) as he pronounces on Wordsworth’s Prelude (while really ogling his student Melanie). But she (my boss) was caught carrying a copy of the novel in shot – the Vintage edition with the mangy dog on the cover. The director (Australian) deemed her a postmodern agitator and banned her from the set. (Malkovich, though, was most impressed and invited her to brunch with him.)”

- Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize - FT.com

A marvellous essay, and there is much more to it than this humorous anecdote. But let it stand, for now.

By Moebius, in 1999. Une Jeunesse Heureuse. (These are the tags...

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:03:51 +1000

By Moebius, in 1999. Une Jeunesse Heureuse. (These are the tags anyhow)

Photograph of New York, by Ezra Stoller. The Metropolis strives...

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:57:23 +1000

Photograph of New York, by Ezra Stoller.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point - but does it float)

Once upon a time, all you needed was a flower in your hair. (NB...

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:56:11 +1000

Once upon a time, all you needed was a flower in your hair.

(NB these frames are WOODEN.)

The Bold Italic Shop - The Bold Italic - San Francisco)

The video I just tried to reblog, Miniature Melbourne, can be viewed most effectively at Vimeo.

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:55:00 +1000

The video I just tried to reblog, Miniature Melbourne, can be viewed most effectively at Vimeo.:

A short tilt-shift time-lapse film featuring the city of Melbourne, Australia. This piece is 10 months in the making and features a range of different events and festivals held in the city throughout the year…

Most of the shots were captured from the Eureka Skydeck, which is a lookout at the top of Melbourne’s tallest building. Other locations were the Shrine of Remembrance memorial, car parks and bridges around the city.

Thought my eldest daughter would enjoy this - she is in Brisbane XX