Korean-born, Tokyo-based artist Hwan Lee wanted to get to really know Paris when she lived there as an exchange student. So she decided to create her own map of the city based on 261 metro stations. But instead of traveling the Metro underground, she walk between every station. Her wonderful map of Paris is a personal history of the city.
On April 8,2015 a new website aimed at bibliophiles will be launched. Literary Hub, founded by Grove Atlantic, City Lights, PEN, Tattered Cover, Tin House, Europa Editions, and more than 60 other publishers, booksellers, and literary magazines, aims to be the Huffington Post of the literary world. Literary Hub will have commissioned content, bookstore profiles, and book reviews. Its editor-in-chief will be Jonny Diamond, founder of NYC’s L Magazine.
On December 6, 2014, forty photographers joined together to create LapseLondon . For the awesome project, each contributor shot a timelapse sequence in a different area of the city. The resulting video, comprised of more than 35,000 images, was created by Triggertrap. Take a look at a day in the life of London.
Since its founding in 2000 by Ihar Lohvinau, the Lohvinau Publishing House and Bookstore in Minsk, Belarus has been a beacon for freedom. The international award-winning press and bookshop has been a consistent thumb in the eye of the country’s authoritarian government headed by president for life Alexander Lukashenko. In 2012, the government confiscated a shipment of Lohvinau’s books at the border with Lithuania and charged the publisher with making false insinuations about life in Belarus and the regime. After a lengthy trial and appeal, Lohvinau has been fined 976 billion rubles, or $62,120. If they fail to pay the fine, the government will shut down the bookstore and permanently revoke their bookselling license.
A campaign to save Lohvinau Bookstore has been launched on their website where you can contribute. You can also help by promoting the cause on social media by sharing #saveLohvinau. More information can be found at the Pen International website.
We have all heard that old adage “never judge a book by its cover”. Well the Amsterdam-based studios This Page Cannot Be Found and Moore have created an actual book that embodies the reverse of that hackneyed maxim.
“The Cover That Judges You” consists of a book with an integrated camera, Arduino kit, and facial recognition software that evaluates the viewer and judges if they are calm enough to open the book.
Like Bremen purports to be a project advertising the historic German port city of Bremen and promoting “cultural integration”. I suspect that the students from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen are having a laugh with their hilarious short films. Somehow they have left out the fantastic medieval Cathedral, Marktplatz, guildhouses, old coffeehouses, wine cellars, and the ancient fishing district of the Schnoor. But take a look at the surreal stop-motion animations and decide for yourself if you Like Bremen.
How many countries are there in the world today? That’s a difficult, if not impossible, question to answer with any certainty. There are currently somewhere between 189 and 196 “independent” nations, but check back tomorrow; that number maybe 199. I possess dual citizenship: U.S.A. and Ladonia. But I doubt that Ladonian documents would pass muster at any legal border. Not even neighboring Denmark recognizes Ladonia. And U.N. membership seems out of the question.
National Poetry Month isn’t until April, but the Academy of American Poets has already unveiled the new official poster. New Yorker cartoonist, and National Book Award winner, Roz Chast created the poster which will be distributed to libraries, schools and bookstores.
If you are a regular follower of TBTP, you know that I’m a big fan of the peripatetic French street artist Seth Globepainter (aka Julien Malland). He recently spent some time in Shanghai working with local artists on a series of paintings on traditional buildings that were being demolished to make way for commercial developments. Unfortunately, all of the beautiful murals have already been destroyed.
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