Tag Archives: Art
Thoughts on Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
It’s tough to write about Do the Work by Steven Pressfield without focusing on how the book was published. It’s the second release from the Domino Project, a joint effort between Amazon and Seth Godin. Their first book was Poke the … Continue reading
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Lucas Cranach the Elder and Speed Painting
This blog is getting rather dusty lately, but I have a good excuse, really I do. I’ve been focused on finishing the rough draft of what will be my first novel. I have two other novels in the drawer. Whether … Continue reading
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Permanence of Paper: Letters from Dickens, Burroughs, and Hawthorne
I recently came across the University Archives site, and then promptly got lost in its literary offerings. It’s a testament to the staying power of paper. We’ve all heard about how dastardly ebooks are compared with the paper variety. They … Continue reading
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Limited-Edition Bloody Cricket Book for $75,000
It’s often said that a writer’s job is to bleed on the page, but so-called luxury publisher Kraken Opus seems to have taken that mantra a bit too seriously. As reported in The Wall Street Journal last week, a pint … Continue reading
$2 Portraits Project: Seeing the Unseen
As a friend mentioned in the comments section on my post on The City & the City by China Miéville, you realize how much you intentionally work to unsee, unhear, and even unsmell parts of your day-to-day life as you read … Continue reading
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Ray Bradbury and Science Fiction Cave Paintings
In his essay “Dusk in the Robot Museums: The Rebirth of Imagination” from 1980, Ray Bradbury writes about the transition he saw in how science fiction was viewed during his lifetime. This essay, along with many other gems, is collected … Continue reading
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Henry VIII and His eBook Psalter
We’ve all heard the argument that ebooks are nothing like the real thing. They don’t have the same weight to them. They don’t smell like books. Turning virtual pages isn’t nearly as enjoyable as the paper variety. You can’t take … Continue reading
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2010 Webby Awards
The winners of this year’s Webby Awards were announced yesterday, May 4. The full list of nominees in nearly 70 categories is downright amazing, ranging from sites backed by mega corporations, through those bankrolled by celebrities, and then on down to … Continue reading
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Alexander Calder’s Circus, Play Art
While Michelangelo drew me into the Seattle Art Museum last month, their Alexander Calder exhibit (runs through April 11) may well have rivaled the master’s scribbles. The thick black circles on the floor around the bigger mobiles, that you weren’t … Continue reading
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Michelangelo and the Fully Formed Idea
Michelangelo supposedly said that all blocks of stone already contain a statue. The job of the sculptor is to simply release it by chipping away all the bits that don’t belong. His unfinished slaves–which line the hallway leading to dear … Continue reading
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