Spectacle: 360 Degrees of Beautiful Baroque
Posted by Avril in Art, books, Decor, media, spectacle on 05. Apr, 2011 | 2 Comments
I am a HUGE bibliophile. Kindles be damned, there are few things I love more than a beautifully bound book. Add to that a long-standing passion and fascination with photography and a simple, but earnest, appreciation for the arts and this next story pretty much devoured several hours of my life the other day. Behold [...]
The Atlas Shrugged movie trailer. And it is awful.
Posted by Simon in books, Film on 14. Feb, 2011 | 2 Comments
Not the first movie adapted from one of Ayn Rand’s tomes of objectivism, and probably not the last. Particularly because, from the looks of it, this one has all the trappings of ending up in straight-to-DVD purgatory. Asides from coming off melodramatic and poorly written, this movie also looks, you know, totally boring. Trains people! [...]
My brain: comics, Penguin Classics, and classic hip-hop albums
Posted by Jef in Art, books, comics on 26. Aug, 2010 | 2 Comments
These are two things that have helped make my week (and both serve as a nice segueway into this weekend’s Fan Expo) — first up, from the Flickr page of Penguin art director Paul Buckley comes some very great comics-inspired Penguin Classics cover designs (The Communist Manifesto, above):
In lieu of praying and loving (I’m down with eating) part 2 of 2
Posted by Jef in books on 20. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
There’s a bit of embarrassment that comes along with making a list of all the self-help/inspirational books you’ve read. For one, yes, there’s the implicit admission of vulnerability, of not being able to handle your own shit, but there’s also the need to uphold an appearance of taste. Looking at the books on this list, [...]
In lieu of praying and loving (I’m down with eating), part 1 of 2
Posted by Jef in books on 18. Aug, 2010 | 5 Comments
The blah blah surrounding the release of Eat Pray Love last weekend re-revealed a certain amount of disdain for the self-help book genre. I too have knee-jerk problems with Elizabeth Gilbert’s three-pronged central premise; but I also am in the market for some life changing. Lately, after my cynicism falls asleep before I do (happens [...]
