The always entertaining street art/sign hacking collective TrustoCorp was at it again this week in Brooklyn as they posted several new helpful, inspiring and instructional signs.
The anonymous and mysterious TrustoCorp crew, which may or may not be based in NYC, has cleverly shared dozens of satirical, sarcastic, ironic and even uplifting street signs and repackaged products in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC, San Diego and Miami.
Thanks to Tourisme Montreal for this little film on la plus belle ville d’Amerique.
On July 24, 1911 the now famous ruins at Machu Picchu were nearly lost to time and the jungle. Today marks the 100th anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s “rediscovery” of South America’s premier tourist attraction.
In Bruges by Madalina Andronic
Wien by Tini Malitius
Oscar’s Paris by Joanna Gniady
Glasgow’s West End by Alice Dansey-Wright
Paris Ramblings by Judith Cheng
Favorite Firenze by Ranjini Chatterjee
Walkin’ London by Dimitra Tzanos
Created on 10/10/10 by documentarians, students, video volunteers and just plain folks, One Day On Earth offers a unique glimpse of humanity through a recording of a 24 hour period in every country on the planet.
Watch this engaging video about Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore that’s been tucked away in Michael Seidenberg’s apartment on the Upper East Side ever since the rent for his original retail space in Brooklyn was quadrupled. (Jonathan Lethem used to work there.) “This would have not been my ideal,” he says. “I wouldn’t have thought I want to have a bookshop in a location no one knows about.” But Brazen says it’s a continuation of being the kind of bookseller he wants to be—not on the street, not at book fairs, but inside, the shelves lined with first editions, knickknacks, and, one hopes, a cat. “I don’t know if it’s my familiarity with failure,” he adds. “I find ways to survive without it making enough money to be what you would call a successful business. If it’s all about money, there’s just better things to sell.” And how do those of us who’ve never been find him? He’s in the phone book, he says with a smile. Hiding in plain sight.
Hat-tip to Evan Smythe for this timely post:
The spanking new Museum of Liverpool, designed by 3XN Architects of the Netherlands and Manchester-based AEW group, opens today. The exciting building establishes a nexus that naturally connects the city and harbor.
Located on the River Mersey, the low-slung dramatic structure manages to artfully blend into Liverpool’s historic cityscape. The brilliant design is made-up of intersecting forms based loosely on the old cargo ships that once covered the waterfront along the Mersey.
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. To celebrate the centenary of Peake’s birth, the British Library’s exhibition The Worlds of Mervyn Peake (5 July – 18 September 2011) examines Peake’s output as novelist, poet, playwright and illustrator through the worlds he inhabited, both real and imagined.
The exhibition brings together a wealth of material from the British Library’s collections, including the recently acquired Mervyn Peake archive. Previously unknown works discovered amongst Peake’s papers include: the manuscript of the soon-to-be published fourth Titus book, Titus Awakes, completed by Peake’s wife Maeve Gilmore after his death; and the complete first scene of his sci-fi play Isle Escape, in which a couple escape to a tropical island to wait out a world war that they later discover failed to take place.
Other highlights include:
Zoë Wilcox, Curator of The Worlds of Mervyn Peake exhibition, said:
“I hope this exhibition will encourage visitors to look beyond the label of “gothic fantasy”, which Peake so disliked, to see a man who had a profound understanding of humanity and a wicked sense of fun. Mervyn Peake’s archive was recently acquired by the British Library and this has provided a wealth of material for the exhibition, which focuses on the real places that inspired Peake’s imaginary worlds. As befits a master of nonsense, there are plenty of quirks: you can discover why Peake hated camels, had trouble with geraniums and nearly lost face over the purchase of a palm tree.”
For more information, please visit: www.bl.uk/peake
The Worlds of Mervyn Peake is open from 5 July to 18 September 2011 in the Folio Society Gallery at the British Library. Admission is free.
Exhibition book :
Peake’s Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Peake’s Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, ‘The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs’, the early ‘Mr. Slaughterboard’, which foreshadows the ‘Titus’ books, two plays, ‘The Wit to Woo’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’, a broadcast version of ‘Mr Pye’, and a generous selection of Peake’s short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake’s son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake’s Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake’s birth, and to mark the British Library’s acquisition of Peake’s archives.
Hardback £25 (ISBN 978 0 7123 5834 7), 592 pages, 229 x 155mm, 75 black and white illustrations. Available from www.bl.uk/shop (T +44 (0)20 7412 7735 / email <a title=”bl-bookshop@bl.uk” href=”mailto:bl-bookshop@bl.uk”>bl-bookshop@bl.uk).
There’s a wealth of information about Peake, who died at 57 from Parkinson’s, on his son Sebastian’s excellent blog about the author and illustrator.
One month ago today we posted a link to the historic live broadcast and webcast of the Norwegian Coastal Express 134 hour voyage from beautiful Bergen to arctic Kirkenes. The Guinness Book of Records has now certified the braodcast as the “longest continuously aired documentary”.
If you didn’t get enough of the gorgeous Norway coastline last month, you can now view the entire 2600km trip of the MS Nordnorge cleverly packed into a 5 minute film.
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