Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks

Posted by Fabio 6 December 2012

BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks is a 10-minute film and accompanying TED Book from award-winning Director Tiffany Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute. Based on new research on how to best nurture children’s brains from Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child and University of Washington’s I-LABS. read more

Ward Roberts – Courts

Posted by Fabio 20 August 2012

The culmination of a four-year project documenting sporting courts and fields across the globe, Courts, the debut book by Australian photographer Ward Roberts, is filled with colour-drenched images that operate as both playful documentary studies and intriguing formal propositions. read more

Beck’s New Album to be Released as Sheet Music Only

Posted by Fabio 14 August 2012

In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-color, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case read more

A rare interview with novelist Robertson Davies

Posted by Fabio 13 August 2012

William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada’s best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished “men of letters”, a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. read more

Chris Ware – Building Stories

Posted by Fabio 30 July 2012

Building Stories the new graphic novel by Chris Ware, imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other’s company another minute; and the building’s landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. read more

Book Review: The Loom of Ruin, A Novel by Sam McPheeters

Posted by Jan Galligan 8 June 2012

In the summer of 1965 I finally discovered serious fiction. Having just graduated high school, I was working nights at a local gas station mini-mart in Kenosha, WI, so my days were spent at the Lake Michigan beach. Needing something to read to pass the time, I searched my parents’ small bookcase filled mostly with Book-ofthe-Month and Reader’s Digest Condensed books. read more

Paul Schiek – Dead Men Dont Look LIke Me

Posted by Fabio 6 June 2012

Dead Men Dont Look LIke Me A new book by photographer Paul Schiek, published by TBW Books. The book features 20 duotone plates of men re-photographed from 1950s-era mug shots found by the artist’s friend Mike Brodie in an abandoned Georgia prison. read more

Growing Up Black by Dennis Morris

Posted by Fabio 21 March 2012

Dennis Morris started his career as a photographer at an early age. He was 11 years old when one of his photographs was printed on the front page of the Daily Mirror. As a young boy in the church choir, he was given a camera which was to spark his lifelong passion for photography. read more

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