Happy Friday! In celebration of the end of the week (and the glorious weather that has finally deigned to grace Chicago), here's a fun video of Lewis Carroll reading Jabberwocky. If you like this, then you should check out the poetryreincarnations channel on YouTube.
April 29, 2011
April 28, 2011
Warner Bros. just released the long trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II.
April 27, 2011
April 26, 2011
April 22, 2011
*Can someone who starred in Showgirls really be expected to give good advice?
*Kindle: from library killer to knight in plastic armor? Amazon just announced it is launching a lending program in more than 11,000 libraries.
*This is going to blow some people's minds. A novelization of Shada, the "lost" Doctor Who story written by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
author Douglas Adams, is to be published next March. *In wistful news, the old mansion that was said to have been the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home in The Great Gatsby is no more.
April 21, 2011
April 20, 2011
The piece is a response to the flooded, jungley environment we were suddenly thrown into when we went to work in Sri Lanka, and the culture shock we experienced. We wanted to take something of the feeling of the flooded environment home, a seed of the jungle to plant in your house which might invade it and take over. We took the image of partially submerged trees and translated it into shelves that have both the qualities of the overgrown lake that surrounded us and the quietness of European furniture.
For more photos and info about WOKmedia, click here.
April 19, 2011
[thanks, Amber!]
April 18, 2011
April 14, 2011
When it comes to covers, Penguin is hard to beat. But somehow, the publisher just keeps upping the ante.
April 13, 2011
I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but it completely slipped my mind! Better late than never, though, so here's why this photo is such a big deal and why this constitutes the ultimate BW. The image above is only a taste of what I want to show you. This is Prague's Strahov Library, and it is the subject of the world's biggest indoor photo. A whopping 3,000 individual photos were put together to form one massive 4,000-megapixel panoramic image. Click here to view and move around that photo (don't worry, it loads quickly).
April 11, 2011
April 08, 2011
*Sensitive aspiring writers, now is the time to break out your smelling salts. Hills star Lauren Conrad has somehow nabbed herself another three-book deal. This is so depressing.
*In more cheerful news, a new e-book version of From Here to Eternity
by James Jones is to include the profanity and mentions of gay sex left out by puritanical censors in the original 1951 edition. Better 60 years late than never.*The everything-old-is-new-again trend that's taken over Hollywood seems to be seeping into other media. Just when you thought Sweet Valley High was safely banished to that embarrassing '90s box in your parents' attic, it was announced that author Francine Pascal will be releasing new books in the series. This time around, however, the Wakefield twins are starring as twentysomethings. Let's hope the books are better than that atrocious - and ill-fated - Nancy Drew on Campus reboot.
*And in the most delightful news I've heard in a while, the New York Public Library has launched a massive smartphone-based scavenger hunt. The hunt kicks off May 20 with an invite-only, 500-person lock-in and runs through the end of the year. Players download the iPhone- and Android-compatible app and then head to the library to hunt down historical objects and complete challenges. You can enter for a spot in the kick-off lock-in here.
April 07, 2011
Measurements: 25.59" H x 17.72" W
April 06, 2011
What an utterly yummy home office. I am all about those uninterrupted shelves - those long lines just make everything look so clean and sleek. Of course, you'd have to have either windowless walls or a simply massive room to make it work, but I think I could put up with the latter - somehow. (The former, not so much.)
April 05, 2011
Ever wondered what goes on behind the publishing-industry curtain - how books are selected for publication, the reasons behind marketing strategies, how long it takes to get a newly acquired manuscript on shelves? Well, now one publisher is attempting to answer all your burning questions. Algonquin Books just launched its Ask an Editor series and is accepting questions about the publishing process from readers through its blog, Facebook, and Twitter. Every fortnight, one question will be selected and answered by an editor.
The video above features executive editor Chuck Adams answering the question, "How did you acquire Water for Elephants?" It's just a brief video, but it gives some insight into the acquisition process and is especially interesting considering how massive the book became. (As an aside, doesn't the movie look just gorgeous?)
[via GalleyCat]
April 04, 2011
[Book End bookends; available in white or silver; £18 for set; from store]
[Bookendings bookends; three styles available; £19.95 per style, $54.95 for all three; from Signs for Homes]
[Alphabet bookends; only A and Z available; $39.95 each; from Wrapables]
April 01, 2011
After last month's deluge of adaptations, it's hardly surprising that we've got slim pickings in April. But what we do have is diversity - this month includes a blockbuster, a classic, a play, and a comic strip. Eclectic, to say the least.
Water for Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz. Based on Sara Gruen's book of the same name
. In theaters April 22.
. In theaters April 22.
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