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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Comics Join The Classics
Joing the likes of Ivanhoe, David Copperfield, and The Great Gatsby, a series of Marvel comic books have united with Penguin Classics family. The Marvel Collection retraces the origins of favorite comic book superstars. The collection of stories reintroduces The Amazing Spider-Man, Black … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Black Panther, Comic Books, Marvel, Spider-Man, superheroes
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Self-Portraits (with and without hats)
Vincent Van Gogh was known to have painted over 30 self-portraits between the years 1886 and 1889. That is until this week when it was revealed that a hidden self-portrait by the artist has been discovered behind one of his … Continue reading
Our Own Digital Voyages
Wikivoyage: is a down the rabbit hole website for anyone jonesing to travel. It’s worth a visit the next time you’re thinking about traveling somewhere or just daydreaming about an adventure. Wikivoyage is Wikpedia but for travel, a communuty-editable database … Continue reading
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Land Art Leaves a Big Footprint
Close to Mongonissi Bay on the Greek island of Paxos, you’ll find this 1000 square meter land art project. It is a huge print of a boot. The artwork, called Footprint , was created by the Greek artist The Krank. It is … Continue reading
Drink coffee at cafes and write about stuff
Support the comic on Patreon! Corey Mohler creates this terrific philosophy themed webcomic Existential Comics.
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir
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A Window on the World
The Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves has created a stunning project titled “Windows of the World.” The impressive collection of urban photos captures the idiosyncratic personality of each European city that he visits. You can see the entire project and … Continue reading
To Live Deliberately
Writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. Associated with the Concord-based literary movement called New England Transcendentalism, he embraced the Transcendentalist belief in the universality of creation and the primacy of personal … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, Philosophy, Transendentalism, Walden
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Almost Paradise
It’s always a happy day when a Tweet from Paperback Paradise pops up in my Twitter feed. I know that I’ve posted about the project before, but one can never have enough bibliophile humor. The graphic designer Domi creates the wildly popular … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged Book Art, bookcovers, paperbacks, Photoshop, Pulp Fiction, Satire
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your one wild and precious life
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 