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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
KLM Cares
Last year I posted a story about KLM’s trial run for the airline’s Care Tag audio-equipped GPS tourist guide device. Now, the Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled-out the tiny tech travel guide for flyers who act fast. When you book a flight … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Europe, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism
Tagged airlines, Amsterdam, GPS, KLM
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It’s World Read Aloud Day
Today is the annual World Read Aloud Day across the globe. As part of the ongoing campaign to encourage reading to children of all ages, the international nonprofit LitWorld has teamed-up with publisher Scholastic. Activities have been planned for classrooms and libraries to help … Continue reading
Traveling Books
In recent months, I have posted stories on two traveling bookshops in France, now I have found one in Charleston, South Carolina. Itinerant Literate Books is the brainchild of partners Christen Thompson Lain and Julia Turner. The pair met while studying at … Continue reading
Greetings From Sh**Hole Island
In response to Tangerine Mussolini’s recent asinine comments about “shithole countries”, Haitian communications agency Parkour has created a marvelous, tongue-in-cheek ad campaign. Welcome to Sh**Hole Country uses beautiful landscape photographs of Haiti to poke fun at the bloated gas bag in the … Continue reading
March of the Penguins
Paper penguin sculptures have been popping-up in cities around the world to raise awareness about protecting Antarctica from exploitation. The penguins were created by German artist Wolfram Kampffmeyer for the new Greenpeace campaign titled March of the Penguins. The sculptures have been … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Art, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Public Transport, South America, USA
Tagged Antarctica, Greenpeace, penguins, Street Art
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Literary Illustration
There is a long history of utilizing maps as a mode of literary illustration. The current exhibition Landmarks: Maps As Literary Illustration at Harvard’s Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts brings together a wonderful collection of more than sixty literary maps of places … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Maps, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged 100 Acre Wood, book illustration, Cartography, Don Quixote, mapmaking, Miguel de Cervantes, Oz, Winnie the Pooh
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Road Scholars
Caught Mapping (see below) will likely only be of interest to cartography geeks and serious roadtrippers, but take a gander anyway.
Empire in decline, or Grave New World
One week ago, members of the infamous street art collective known as Indecline commemorated Tangerine Mussolini’s ascent to power with a guerrilla art installation of a faux cemetery near his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course. Using a truck disguised as … Continue reading
Effective Dreams
I was saddened to read this week of the death of the legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. One of America’s literary greats of the 20th and 21st centuries, she was also an inspirational feminist pioneer and steadfast opponent of … Continue reading
Whisper to Me
New York magazine is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, the publication has announced the release of a series of 50 special covers. Eight of the covers, created by Yoko Ono, Alex Katz, Barbara Kruger, Mel … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 