Tokyo 100 Views is a wonderful, whimsical project from Japanese anime artist and illustrator Shinji Tsuchimochi. The colorful illustrations take us on a wacky little tour of Tokyo, replete with imps, ghosts, animals, movie monsters, and robots. It’s sort of like Tintin meets Lost in Translation on magic mushrooms.
After a recent post on the beauties of Budapest, I was discussing the tourist attractions in the Hungarian capital with a TPTP reader and was saddened to find that I completely missed out on visiting the fantastic Ervin Szabó Library. Housed in the stunning former Wenckheim Palace just next door to the National Museum in Pest’s Palotanegyed District, the city’s central library’s main building is a gem of Hungarian Neo-Baroque architecture. Built in 1889 as a townhouse for the industrialist aristocrat Count Frigyes Wenckheim, the landmark was purchased by the municipal council in 1927 and converted into a gorgeous working library.
I’ll be certain to schedule some time to tour the library on my next visit to Budapest, but if you’re a bibliophile planning to be in the Hungarian capital consider putting it on your to see list.
During the past few weeks, I’ve seen a number of news stories and blog posts disparaging Paris tourism. The complaints seemed to focus on a perception that the city is dirty, noisy and crowded. My only comment is that travelers who don’t want a big city experience should head for the country. For my part, I’ll take Paris.
New York City-based videographer/photographer/cinematographer Tyler Fairbank appears to share my love for the French capital. This past summer he spent two productive weeks in Paris filming a wonderful 4k hyperlapse titled “Bonjour Paris”.
For the past year or so, stacks of books have been appearing around New York City with attached notes which read: “Take a book. Any book. Email the artist when you’ve finished it.” The mystery man behind The Reading Project is Brooklyn-based artist and advertising art director Shaheryar Malik.
The book piles have popped-up on the Brooklyn Bridge, in Central Park, on the popular Chelsea High Line, and even in the Times Square subway station. Inside each of the books, Malik inserts a bookmark with his email address. So far, he’s heard back from folks in 30 different countries.
photo credit © Daniel Yim
Happy Poetry Day
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary this year with a physical and online exhibition called “Lines of Thought: Discoveries That Changed the World”. The historic library has grown from a small collection of manuscripts kept in a wooden chest into one of the world’s greatest libraries with more than eight million items, ranging from inscriptions on ox bones and turtle shells, illuminated manuscripts, and early printed books, to ebooks and digital archives.
The exhibition in Cambridge runs until September 30, 2016, but if you can’t make it in person you can view it here online.
UNESCO has declared that Monday March 21, 2016 is World Poetry Day. To commemorate the event, more than 1,000 coffeehouses around the world will offer customers a chance to purchase the beverage of their choice with a poem. The video below, sponsored by Austria’s Julius Meinl coffee, features the great word artist Robert Montgomery.
Travel Between The Pages 