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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Garden of Earthly Delights
Each June since 2010, the waterways in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch —aka Den Bosch—have been the venue for one of the Netherland’s most surreal and wonderful events. Inspired by the macabre work of local painter Hieronymus Bosch, local creatives … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Music, Theater, Tourism
Tagged Den Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch, Netherlands, parades
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Happy Families Are All Alike
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Anna Karenina, Breakfast of Champions, Princess Bride, The Catcher in the Rye, the Hobbit
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Any Given Book
Any Given Book is an exciting book art project which has brought together sculptors, street artists, photographers, cartoonists, and painters. Rome’s White Noise Gallery has curated the unusual show of book art. The participating artists have each brought an idiosyncratic take … Continue reading
Into The Sun
Check our cartoonist Peter Chiykowski’s blog Rock Paper Cynic for more like this.
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism
Tagged Bookstores, Cartoons, Comics
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And I Love The Licorice Too
OK, I admit it, I shop at IKEA. In fact, half of my house is furnished by the Swedish furniture giant. My office is lined by the famous Billy bookcases, my file cabinets are all IKEA, even the desk that … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, History, Museums, Restaurants, Tourism
Tagged Ikea, lingonberry, Smaland, Sweden
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What’s In A Title
Many thanks to Lucy from Jonkers Rare Books in lovely Henley-on-Thames for this wonderful infographic. If you can’t get to the UK, you can still visit the terrific bookshop via their website.
Posted in Books, Canada, Europe, Writing
Tagged Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby
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When The Bookstores Are Closed
Singapore bookstore BooksActually has launched the first two of a new series of book vending machines. The machines are located at the Singapore Visitors Centre and the National Museum of Singapore. The book vendors will be rotated every three months … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Museums, Tourism
Tagged Bookselling, Penguin Books, Singapore
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Data Visualization Is A Beautiful Thing
These wonderful graphic representations of air travel routes were based on 600,000 flight routes from 3,200 airports around the world. Swiss programmer Martin Grandjean utilized data from OpenFlights.org to create the graphics. Check out his fascinating website to learn more.
Posted in Air Travel, Europe, Maps, Public Transport, Tech
Tagged Air Traffic, Air Travel, airports, Data Visualization
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Montreal in History
Here in the New World we tend to forget that we too have a history. Montreal, one of my all time favorite North American cities, was founded in 1642. In the run-up to next year’s 375th anniversary celebrations, Montreal tourism folks … Continue reading
Pulp Fiction
I’m a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino’s films, so naturally I’m also digging these faux vintage pulp novel book covers. The project by graphic artist David Redon (aka Ads Libitum) is called “Pulp Books”.
Posted in Art, Books, Film, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs
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