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A random view of my bookshelves
Not yet fully reorganized after a recent move
Benezit - An essential quick reference book and a good starting point in researching an artist.
after reformatting, and adding some media already, it's up and running.... 297.77GB available, 293.51GB free
Libary of Intentions
Books I read & Books I consult
Texts I translate
Reference books
It may be interesting to compare the above with the poems written at the Court of Harun al-Rashid.
Douglas Adams was listening to Grand Hotel by Procol Harum when he wrote the Guide.
He was totally nuts, but I love him!
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
true story about a middle eastern girl who was "married off" at a very young age and sought a divorce and WON!!!
He wants to love you!
He wants to love you and store one terabyte of your data!
(Aside: One terabyte is so big that my spellchecker doesn't even accept that a terabyte is a real word. But it also doesn't accept that "spellchecker" is a real word, so it can't really be trusted with such life-altering decisions.)
The London Way of Death. A history of London's way of dealing with death, undertaking and funeral's. A very interesting read.
if you are old like me, you may remember
his short segments on the evening news at first and I think later on on a Sunday morning tv show.
Bók þessi vottar, hve vel Íslendingar í Vesturheimi hafa geymt og ávaxtað menningararf ættjarðar sinnar og er nú gefin yður til minja um komu yðar hingað
Þingvelli, 26. júní 1930
Shot of the late great Alex Harvey outside a theatre in the US where he performed with his band The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. I saw him live just twice at Earls Court and Charlton football ground back in the seventies and was hooked by his music, he was way ahead of his time, a punk rocker before punk was around !
This illustration is from one of the volumes of the Reading Street English textbooks for Korean elementary school kids I coauthored with Haeyoung Kim.
It's taken from a chapter titled, "Why Are There Four Seasons?" It is very lovely, which doesn't fix the fact that it has some of the classic problems of representation of the Earth's orbit around the sun... but I had no say in the artwork, and I have to admit, it is pretty.
Except... light doesn't behave like that! It's quite confusing if you take those images of light distribution on the Earth seriously.
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September 28, 2008
23.) Chronicles of the Black Company (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose) by Glenn Cook
and
24.) The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West
"Black Company," which I've been reading since August, took longer than I thought, but then I realized it's an omnibus edition of three novels in one ;) so now I don't feel so lazy.
[ and grinds again.]
This is a version of Turndust, an artist's book project I am currently working on. This is an early stage 'storyboard' version. I've posted it because I am interested in seing if I can use community on Flickr to add something to the design process. What do you think of it? What could be improved? What's good? What does it make you think about?
I'm planning to develop the book for screenprint in one or two colours with hand colouring in watercolour, so each book will be a little different, although still part of an edition. I plan to include new versions and working-up on Flickr as I go along.
Since this book is intended as a narrative, it's best read from beginning to end. I recommend looking at the set.
Thanks for any comments.