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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Christina Nicodema's paintings explore the schisms of the food chain that all life participates in. They challenge the impossibility of reconciling the opposing notions of violence and empathy.. -
A selection of paintings by Swedish-born artist Camilla Engstrom. -
When the Dust Settles is an exploration of the psychological landscape of our contemporary society.. -
Prague-based type designer Martin Vácha talked to us about design, creativity, and living and working in Prague. Plus a selection of his favourite places.