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THE YEAR IN BOOKS

Saturday, January 1, 2011

At the beginning of 2010, we prompted the lucky recipients of our mono.kalender with a greeting card to read more. Today I realized, bizarrely enough, that my reading list was the only new year’s resolution that I actually put into action, while successfullly ignoring bigger challenges. It also made me realize that fulfilling resolutions feels [...]

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Sleeping in Dubai

Saturday, December 18, 2010

While I was sleeping a garden grew up outside my window: bright flowers and soft irrigation pipes sprouted up out of the desert. It wasn’t there yesterday. While I was sleeping they brushed the beaches, glazed the cakes with gold leaf and mixed cement for the glittering monuments.
They fed the fish, rays and sharks so [...]

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LUX ET VERITAS

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Says Hal Incandenza: “I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

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A PAEAN TO BOOKS

Saturday, November 13, 2010

If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of [...]

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FOUND DRAMA

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Today’s Quick Read by DFW: “What you want to do is rhetoric.”

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SUGAR PIE HONEY BUNCH

Friday, October 1, 2010

Blast from the past: two forgotten page-turners reissued over at Hyphen. Large indeed.

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HEATH ROBINSON IN WONDERLAND

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

BTW: This might as well be the funniest Rube Goldbergian children’s book of all times.

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DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

While reading about Web visuals I came across this article from designer and critic Max Bruinsma, for Eye magazine, about The 1st International Browserday, a design student competition which took place in 1998, in Amsterdam, based on the concept of reinventing Netscape’s browser, from its roots to visuals.
The article features some of the 38 designs [...]

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FOR THE RECORD

Monday, April 5, 2010

Joshua Homme is this year’s Ambassador of Record Store Day (April 17); and he wants you to “discover your own theme music”… Cheers!

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Writing is fun

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Axe Cop is written by five year old Malachai and drawn by his adult bother Ethan. It is about cops and fruit and guns and babies and unicorns and the transfigurative power of biting.
Here.

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