Who Needs Turkey

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Who needs turkey when you’ve got a Philly pretzel ? This wonderful street art mural appeared recently in Philadelphia’s up-and-coming Port Richmond district. The newest work from the Local Critters Project mural series was created thanks to a crowd funding project launched by neighborhood resident Natalie Shaak. Along with the “happy raccoon”,  the project also raised money to rehabilitate the adjacent kid’s playground. You can learn more and contribute to the ongoing project at their Go Fund me page.

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Underground Design

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Frequent visitors to Travel Between The Pages will by now indulge my interests in maps, public transportation systems, and design. This brand new series of very cool maps from Blue Crow Media was just launched with a brilliant two-sided cartographic guide providing insight into the architecture, graphic design, and history of London’s Underground network.

The London Underground Architecture and Design Map was curated by transport design historian Mark Ovenden and has terrific photographs by Will Scott. It includes a geographical Underground map, with featured stations and corresponding information, graphic design, artwork, and architecture background.

Blue Crow plans to follow-up with similar publications on other famous public transport systems. Here’s the link for more information on the project and ordering yours.

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Rome: Bookstore Tourism

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Many years ago when I first visited Rome, Via Del Governo Vecchio, just off of the sublime Piazza Navona, was an atmospheric narrow street with antiquarian shops. While it’s still a lovely area, the antique shops have been replace with boutiques and vintage clothing stores. One popular exception is the very cool Altroquando indie bookshop.

Now the store is expanding to include an English language bookstore too. Europa Editions, which publishes European literature in translation for Americans, will have its own dedicated bookshop stocking 5,000 to 10,000 titles in fiction, non-fiction, and periodicals. The shop, which is owned by Edizioni E/O, will also host book readings and related events. There was a soft-opening yesterday, while the official open is on November 30th.

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Traveling Bibliophiles Can Relate

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

h/t to Laura Pacheco and The Wild Detectives

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Itinerant Bookstore Tourism

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Margaux Segré gave up a comfortable civil service career with the French Ministry of Culture to pursue her dream of being a full-time bookseller. After crowdfunding the renovation of a delivery truck, she now roams southwestern France visiting village markets, book fairs, cultural events, schools, and festivals in a traveling bookshop called Le Serpent d’etoiles. Seems like the perfect life to me.

 

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NYC Layered

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

I have never seen anything quite like this very trippy, multi-layered time-lapse video below. Here’s what the filmmaker Julian Tryba had to say about the process:

Traditional time-lapses are constrained by the idea that there is a single universal clock. In the spirit of Einstein’s relativity theory, layer-lapses assign distinct clocks to any number of objects or regions in a scene. Each of these clocks may start at any point in time, and tick at any rate. The result is a visual time dilation effect known as layer-lapse.

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Mustachio On The Orient Express

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Tom Gauld

 

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What we live with now

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Those of you who follow TBTP on a regular basis are well aware that I’m a huge fan of the Spanish artists collective Luzinterruptus. Their international environmentally focused art installations always make bold and memorable statements. “The Plastic We Live With” or “El Plastico con el que vivimos” was their most recent project. Last month, it transformed a former Virgin Megastore in Bordeaux, France to help graphically visualize the excess plastic all around us.

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Fillory and Further

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

I’m a big fan of author Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy. The brilliant and always entertaining fantasy series is like a rollicking mash-up of Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The books come with some very cool Tolkien-like maps of the magical world of Fillory created by Roland Chambers. Now, the illustrator is offering high quality limited edition prints of the maps on his website.

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Bookstore Tourism Lisbon

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Portugal is well known to traveling bibliophiles for its extraordinary bookstores and libraries. One of Lisbon’s most popular book browsing destinations is the popular Livaria Ler Devagar in the Barrio de Alcantara district. Set in a 19th century newspaper printing factory, the bookshop shares space with two cafes, galleries, and performance spaces. Packed floor to ceiling with thousands of books, the shop, whose name means “read slowly, is the cornerstone for a growing creative neighborhood. It’s open daily, but go on Sunday for the local street market.

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