6,000 page book captures the entire empty vastness of our solar system
I’m so pleased this exists.
6,000 page book captures the entire empty vastness of our solar system
I’m so pleased this exists.
I’m not a professional writer, just a mom, but if I get to make only one comment it would be this: There isn’t a magic reading list. Never was. Never will be. The reason what transpired that night was memorable was the wondrous Socratic feel of the exchange. Here was a man, a great thinker of our time who has spent his life developing and honing his intellect, challenging the next generation to pick up the mantle. What all these books have in common is they demand us to question, search and engage. They don’t preach, patronize or indoctrinate. They are joyful expression of the whole of the human experience. The very best examples of a life fully lived.
A Wonderful Lamp
A Wonderful Lamp (the shift of light in an unbound universe), the work I made from The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Printed using stone lithography over both sides of each page. And absolute bitch to install, and I had to make some fairly hefty compromises, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Also very, very difficult to photograph well.
A Wonderful Lamp (by crumpart)
A better picture of the Satanic Verses work. Will hopefully get a chance to take some non-rushed pictures of the whole installation tomorrow.
The last of the digital prints for the Atlas, on A1 trace.
Two large format digital prints for the Atlas.
Things are coming up a little more Millhouse already this morning.
Both sides.
Round 1.
Started in on the red today.
Today’s XKCD. So much love.
View from the other side, which will be printed in red.
Satanic Verses progress: 39 pages of blue left to print.
The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto for the liberal arts, for a liberal education, and even for the liberal-arts college. What Milo discovers is that math and literature, Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, should assume their places not under the pentagon of Purpose and Power but under the presidency of Rhyme and Reason. Learning isn’t a set of things that we know but a world that we enter.
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Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker
This is just a really great article about a really great book.
(via ryeisenberg)
(via wnyc)
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Small Demons “Welcome to the Storyverse”
This was a fun one to make and to be a part of, and it all starts with a really powerful idea—that there’s value in connecting the details in all the stories in all the books in the world. Say you’re reading High Fidelity and want to listen to every piece of music. And some of those songs are mentioned in other stories, too. Small Demons. Not bad, right?
A million thanks to the Small Demons team (great people) and everyone who helped make this.
(Source: sandwichvideo)
