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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
There are no kangaroos in Austria
Award-winning photographer Kirill Neiezhmakov has created a brilliant hyperlapse tour of Vienna, Austria that plays on the popular longstanding joke that there are no kangaroos in Austria. The very entertaining timelapse video of Vienna explores many of the historic city’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Film, Museums, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Austria, Timelapse, Vienna, Wien
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If you build it, they will come
A 57 year old poet named Jiang Libo in China has spent $116,000 building a bookshop in a remote village on top of a mountain. The Milestone Bookstore is located in a rural area of Zhejiang province in eastern China, … Continue reading
Frivolous Friday
Last month, a small sailboat in distress was rescued by a massive 18th-century sailing ship. “This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?” “So however surreal those cities, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged A.I, Cartoons, casual Friday, Frida Kahlo, Godzilla, Pech Merle
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Who the hell is Edgar ?
Here in the former Colonies we rarely pay any attention to the annual Eurovision music contest. However, this year the spirit of the iconic 19th century American author Edgar Allan Poe appears to be the inspiration for Austria’s entry in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Music, USA, Writing
Tagged Austria, Edgar Allan Poe, Eurovision
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Picturing Maps
I have long been intrigued by old school pictoral maps. The exmples above and below are from the University of Michigan’s Clark Library Maps collection, each shows the United States through a different cultural lens, covering everything from literary giants … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Maps, Music, Public Transport, USA
Tagged Cartography, Illustration, Mark Twain
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Libraries For The People
Here at Travel Between The Pages World HQ we are huge fans of public libraries. We were chuffed to learn about a new organization of library workers, library users, and community advocates that wants to help folks become more involved … Continue reading
La Biblioteca del Mondo
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World is a wonderful new documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Directed by Davide Ferrario, the documentary will launch in the U.S. beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Documentary, Italy, Umberto Eco
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the shape of what you lived
And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you. In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You … Continue reading
Ocean of Books
An Ocean of Books is an interactive map of over 100,000 authors and 145,162 books. On this map every island is an author and every city is a book. Searching the Ocean of Books map by author allows the user to … Continue reading
