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Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Mako, the King James Bible 400th birthday, and the four holy gospels
my friend Mako has done something brave and unique and beautiful. he's illustrating the Bible with abstract art. the mystery of creation. a new illumined bible for the 21st century.
there's a new modern art in town!
Mako's paintings move you profoundly. they are worship in paint.
opening tonight at the Dillon Gallery
555 W25th Street, NYC
6.30pm
More here.
His book, The Four Gospels Illumined Bible will be on sale in January.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
stop the world
Instead of shooting a fast moving object, Taylor's high-speed video camera is the fast moving object (on a high speed train going around 125 mph), and it is filming the platform moving by. Fast motion in slow motion.
no plot, no action, totally mesemerizing.
via Graeme Taylor's blog: Straylight
filmed with a casio exilim fh20
He says: "In all my slow-motion work so far, I’ve used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? For instance, if you use a 210fps camera at 35mph, on playback at 30fps it’ll seem to the observer that they’re moving at walking pace- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed."
ah yes. just as I suspected.
Friday, December 3, 2010
patty cake cats
a friend sent this to me and I'm sorry but it IS friday so silliness is in order
(wait. sorry. silliness is ALWAYS in order)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer has a new book coming out called Tree of Codes and he made it by taking his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz and cutting out the words to create a completely new story. wow.
This is an image of the book.
He uses sculptural means to craft a story--and reminds us that books have bodies! This is one that I can't see working on a nook or a kindle or even an iPad.
Books with bodies!
Books with bodies!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Project Sunshine Visit
Earlier this month I was privileged to visit Cohen's Children's Medical Center on Long Island with Project Sunshine.
Schwartz & Wade at Random House very generously donated the books so that we could give each child their own copy. (Thank you!)
The day started at Penn Station for me with a pigeon pooping on my head. So of course it was quite fitting that I should begin the reading with a manners book (the pigeon clearly had never read of it).
This is little 5 year-old Tayema and we are reading HOW TO GET MARRIED BY ME THE BRIDE and BEING A PIG IS NICE. The hospital IT people also filmed the reading for their close circuit TV thing where children from their various beds could join in--probably about 50 of them--and it will also be put on their TV loop.
Oh dear. Poor children. All I can say is I'm glad I don't have to watch myself on endless loop--no doubt you are too. (It's not just me on the loop mercifully. They have other authors and entertainers on there too.)
But seriously what a wonderful charity.
Friday, November 26, 2010
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