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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
First Impressions
On April 15, 1874, thirty artists, including Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, held an exhibition of their works in Paris, at the Boulevard des Capucines, the vacant studio of the photographer Nadar (Gaspard-Félix … Continue reading
Literacy for Life
The Literacy Pen by The World Literacy Foundation and the Dutch firm Media.Monks is an amazing educational device designed to enable illiterate individuals to start writing and learning to read, instantly. Open source and compatible with all standard pens on … Continue reading
Maps, Art and AI
The very clever guys behind the website Brilliant Maps have utilized artificial intelligence programming to conjure up some quite interesting maps based on the painting styles of some great artists. You can see the results on their website and on YouTube in … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Film, Maps
Tagged AI, Cartography, Gustav Klimt, MidJourney, Painting
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Smoke Signals
Mt.Etna‘s Southeast Crater has begun emitting countless graceful vapor rings (“volcanic vortex rings”), a phenomenon never seen like this before. Someone said “maybe because we receive so much bad news lately, Etna has decided to do something simply beautiful”.
You may want to see this (or not)
The Abandoned/Ghost station project captures those mysterious stations throughout London which are long closed and disused. Many remain fairly intact and some even feature time capsule-like qualities, such as WWII propaganda posters hanging from the platform walls. The Museum of … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Maps, Public Transport
Tagged Athens, Bookbinding, London Underground, Science fiction
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Nightfall
Imagine a planet in a system with six suns where total darkness, in the form of a solar eclipse, comes only once every 2,049 years. This is the setting of “Nightfall,” a short story that appeared in the September 1941 … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction and Fantasy, solar eclipse
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The Sun and the Moon and You
NASA commissioned gifted artists among their ranks to create an exciting series of posters commemorating the total solar eclipse that will cut a wide swath across Mexico, the United States and Canada today. On April 8, 2024, a total solar … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism: A bit of France in NYC
La Joie de Vivre, a bookstore and café selling titles in French and English, has opened in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Forbes reported that the shop, located at 145 W. 27th St., “offers a quick getaway to France. 50% of books sold in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookselling, Chelsea, France, Manhattan, NoMad
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who gives up a cherished habit?
“Hell” by Virgilio Piñera translated by Mark Schaffer When we are children, hell is nothing more than the devil’s name on our parent’s lips. Later, this notion becomes more complicated, and we toss in our beds through the interminable … Continue reading
