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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Tokyo meets The New Yorker
Way back in 2017 I shared a story about a marvelous art and design project that creates faux-magazine covers called , The Tokyoiter, and was reminded of it by a recent post in a blog that I follow. The concept, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Tourism
Tagged Graphic design, Magazines, The New Yorker, Tokyo
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The hills are terrible, they hide the truth of the past.
Sunrise by Louise Glück This time of year, the window boxes smell of the hills, the thyme and rosemary that grew there, crammed into the narrow spaces between the rocks and, lower down, where there was real dirt, competing with … Continue reading
Scotland’s Year of Stories
The tourism organization VisitScotland has announced that 2022 is a “Year of Stories,” and has launched a project called Braw Beginnings (braw meaning fine, good, or pleasing) which translates the first lines of iconic books inspired by or written in Scotland into … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Tourism, Writing
Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Harry Potter, Ian Rankin, Scotland
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A TV Dictionary
The TV DICTIONARY is a collaborative project with a very simple premise: each entry attempts to capture the essence of a TV series using a single word in a short video that combines the dictionary definitions of that word with … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Film, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Better Call Saul, Flea Bag, language, Seinfeld, Television, video
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The Naked Truth and More
I have to admit that I was a poor student of William Shakespeare’s work while I was in secondary school. Over the years, I have come to appreciate the brilliance of his writings, but I was not aware of the … Continue reading
Whitman on writing
“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment…to put things down without deliberation…without worrying about their style…without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I … Continue reading
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
