Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
Publishers put a lot of thought into designing the covers of books sold at airports. Tailored for an abbreviated shop time.
ColourLovers:
Charlie Rose:
I every much enjoyed the interview with Paola Antonelli last evening. I’ll add another link to her, this time at TED ... by design.
Later: MoMA, Design and the Elastic Mind. Plenty of information in this interface.
Financial Times:
One language fits all. The ‘imperialism’ of English.
CNN:
I’d forgotten that comic books were the scapegoats of the ‘60’s. Who recalls that Charlie Brown comic books were the most-traded between college students?
I need a reprieve from this morning’s news.
Capturing the bear essentials of Paddington. Pooh is more Taoist, but Paddington will do for today.
Guardian.UK:
”Imagination in 21st-century literature has been limited by our lack of engagement with history - we need to break out new forms.”
The Art Newspaper:
Introducing the first identical twin painters in the history of art.
The Atlantic.com:
Where Mother Saw Best. “Alice Friedman’s Women and the Making of the Modern House and Colin Davies’s Key Houses of the Twentieth Century probe aspects of the complex relationship between modernism— the dominant architectural style of the 20th century—and domesticity.”
Publisher’s Weekly:
New York Approves Libel Tourism Bill.
NPR Podcast:
Authors Debate Ethics of Writing Private for Public. Annie Proulx, Uzodinma Iweala, and Michael Ondaatje.
Veer
has completely changed their “Ideas” section. Very nice.
Guardian.UK:
Turning over an old leaf. Just don’t be fooled that reading online is more ‘green’ than a paper book. Trees can be grown renewably and sustainably; power generation ain’t there yet.
Guardian.UK:
“We train female children to be manipulative and to exploit their sex. From the time she is tiny, a girl in our society is taught to flirt. She is usually dressed like a mini-whore in pink and tinsel, short skirt, matching knickers, baby-doll pyjamas, long hair falling over her face ...” Nothing like a Brit to rip a hole in sanctimoniously sticky US tabloid ‘outrage.’
Montaigne:
“The mind that hath no fixed bound, will easily lose itself: For, as we say, ‘To be everywhere, is to be nowhere.’”
Guardian.UK:
Putting faces to fiction. “It seems to me that the more facts one can solicit in the search for truth, the better become one’s chances of finding something that resembles it.”
Yahoo News/AP:
Scanning world’s every book means turning many, many pages.
SF New Mexican:
College of Santa Fe: Merger could keep school afloat. CSF is one of the best art schools in the area ... it would be a shame for it to close down.
The Gathering of Nations
Powwow is this weekend. If you’ve never ‘done’ it, it is an amazing experience.
The US Copyright Office
is experiencing delays. But you can help beta-test their new electronic system in the meantime.
Guardian.UK:
“For the first time, a self-published author has made it onto the shortlist for the prestigious PEN/Ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography ...”
New Scientist:
Life-changing books: Recommendations from 17 leading scientists. Incomprehensibly happy to see “Catch-22” here.
Times Online.UK:
“We need artists as we’ve never needed them before. So, has art risen to this challenge? Is it vigorously policing the world of the image?” I agree with the writer ... art is more interested in twisting reality, than in rendering it literally. Realism has been reviled for years.
London Review of Books:
A show of photographer Alexander Rodchenko’s works. One of my favorites. Girl with Leica. And of course, The Chauffeur.
LA Times:
“Is it possible to lead a dedicated literary life in the billionaire-filled, media-crazed New York of today?” Given the bottom-line nature of our current economics, I doubt it. Time to return to the small cabin by a field (likely sewn with genetically modified crops), and chase the muse.
