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Category Archives: Art
A Farewell to Arms (copyright)
It’s that wonderful time of the year when we anticipate all of the amazing works of art and literature that will lose their copyright protections. So, if you’ve been hankering to write that sequel to A Farewell to Arms or paint your … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, movies, Music, Photography, Restaurants, USA, Writing
Tagged Copyright, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Public Domain
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A Merry Middle Earth Christmas
Now that we have officially entered the Christmas season in the U.S.A., what could be more festive than a claymation special starring Gollum and the Hobbit gang. Christmas in Middle-Earth is the wickedly charming musical brainchild of actor/musicians Brendan Dalton. … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Film, Music
Tagged Gollum, Hobbits, J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle Earth
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“For every five people who read this book four will go insane.”
Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned: “For every five people who read this book“, wrote novelist/playwright Ben Hecht, “four will go insane”. If you are feeling courageous, the book is available for free right here. In 2020, Stéphanie Colaux discovered an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, ebooks, Europe, Museums, Public Transport, Restaurants, USA, Writing
Tagged Budapest, Charles Fort, Paris, Ukiyo-e, World War II
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Not your usual guidebook for NYC
Filmmaker and social media maven Nicolas Heller, also known as New York Nico, boasts more than a million people followers on his eponymous Instagram account where he chronicles the characters of New York City. Heller platforms ordinary New Yorkers along … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Maps, Public Transport, Restaurants, Tourism, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, Travel Guidebooks
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Just another marbled Monday
The wavy patterns on the edges, covers, and endpapers on this tooled and blind-stamped, half-bound book are from Carew’s Survey of Cornwall printed in London by Thomas Bensley for J. Faulder and Rees and Curtis in 1811. The marbled-paper pattern is what the University of Washington’s site … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Europe, History, Travel Writing
Tagged Cornwall, England, Fore Edge, Paper marbling
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There would be a parade
If Adam Picked the Apple There would be a parade, a celebration, a holiday to commemorate the day he sought enlightenment. We would not speak of temptation by the devil, rather, we would laud Adam’s curiosity, his desire for adventure … Continue reading
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