Posted in People, Photographers, Reading on Jul 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens
One of my favorite New Yorker writers is about to come out with a book of photographs and an essay on burdock leaves. I can’t wait.
Posted in Movies, People, Reading on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Success Story 2
David A. Price has written The Pixar Touch, about the history of Pixar and how Steve Jobs turned a small investment into one of the most important movie studios of our time.
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Social Software on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Small Publishers Feel Power of Amazon’s ‘Buy’ Button
Oh boy, Amazon throws weight around with “One-Click.” I think they also do it with Amazon Prime although I may be mistaken.
As a consumer who buys most of what I buy online, I’m always torn between Amazon and other online retailers who have less streamlined buying processes. I [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Reading on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
The Poetry Archive is a collection of poets reading their own work.
Check out Allen Ginsnberg reading “America.”
I’m a stenographer of my mind. I write down what passes through it, not what goes on around me. I’m a poet.” - Allen Ginsberg
My only complaint is that RealPlayer is the only way to use this site.
Given [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Humor, People, Reading on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
New York Times Profile of Cartoonist Al Jaffee
I grew up with Al Jaffee’s “fold-ins” in Mad Magazine. For the most part they were corny, even to me as a kid but I still folded almost every one just to see the punchline.
If you don’t know what a fold-in is, check out the Times’ interactive feature: [...]
Posted in Reading, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
Amazon to Buy Audible for $300 million
Oh boy, a monopoly on books. Soon the Kindle will be the only way to read a digital book. On the other hand, maybe not, maybe they’ll continue to support iTunes and computers. Hope so.
Posted in Places, Reading on Jan 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Wojtek has a nice collection of images from a trip to the Northern Areas of Pakistan, including cities and the Karakorum mountain region.
I’m reading the book Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time and it’s reminding me of my fascination with big mountain climbing [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell has written an insightful essay and book review on how the work of James R. Flynn has turned the IQ measurement world on its head.
If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate, what explains the Flynn effect—the steady rise in scores across generations?
Gladwell is one of my favorite New Yorker writers and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Jan 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
Great essay by Heather Champ: How to Read The New Yorker in 10 Easy Steps.
I’ve been getting and reading The New Yorker for longer than Heather and John (below) combined (probably) and I’ve watched the magazine change over time with new writers, ads, layout, and feel.
In the early years I went through it fast, got [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Reading on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Raw Vision: The world’s only international magazine of outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art.
Raw Vision remains the world’s only international journal of the art of the ‘unknown geniuses’ who are the creators of Outsider Art. Untrained, unschooled and uninfluenced by the art world, the work of these artists continues to stun and amaze. They [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Reading, Tech Stuff, Tools on Nov 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
David Pogue seems to like the Amazon Kindle more than most: An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On.
He makes excellent points and he gives a more detailed look at the various features of Kindle: the screen, “ink” and reading experience, and the user interface. I have to say, his review softens me on this [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Tech Stuff, Tools on Nov 20th, 2007 15 Comments »
This reminds me of the birth of the Mac, the birth of the iPod and more. Steven Levy at Newsweek has written the opening big story about the new Amazon reading device and service: The Future of Reading. It’s just too bad that this device/service doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a winner.
You can [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Jul 21st, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife came home from being away for a week and Amazon delivered her long-ago-ordered Harry Potter book and, well, she’s gone again. Sigh.
Posted in People, Reading on Feb 23rd, 2006 5 Comments »
Our friend Tom Hunt came over yesterday on his way home from school. He teaches English at a prep school near here. Poor fellow has to wear a jacket and tie every day. Anne and I have known Tom for twenty years, he’s a very close friend of ours who lives a few towns away.
When [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Sep 29th, 2005 2 Comments »
Carrie Coco is one of my wife Anne’s oldest friends in Connecticut; they go way back. I’m a relative newcomer as I’ve only known Carrie for about seventeen years. In that time I’ve learned of our mutual interest in photography, images in general, politics and world events, and both of us enjoyed the book, The [...]
Posted in Reading on Apr 6th, 2005 2 Comments »
The Wall Street Journal has an interview with Amazon’s most prolific book reviewer. She’s posted 8600 reviews to date and reads 4-5 books per day.
“I have one basic criterion: A book should entertain me and take me away from the rest of the world.”
At that rate I doubt she lives in the rest of the [...]
Posted in Reading on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
David Brooks, who is an excellent writer and a bit too conservative politically for my taste has written an excellent review of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book for the New York Times Book Review: ‘Blink’: Hunch Power.
If you want to trust my snap judgment, buy this book: you’ll be delighted. If you want to trust my [...]
Posted in Reading on Jan 11th, 2005 6 Comments »
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell’s new book and it’s getting excellent reviews. You can read more about it at his site: Gladwell.com.
Posted in Reading on Jan 11th, 2005 3 Comments »
Revolution in the Valley is the book that Andy Hertzfeld has just had published from the stories he and others have collected at Folklore.org.
Here is his post about the making of the book at Folklore.org.
If the stories are already online and free, why buy the book? The design, photographs, and editing of the stories make [...]
Posted in Cartoons, Reading on Dec 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Ted Rall has edited a new book: Attitude, featuring Andy Singer “No Exit” which is a complilation of twelve years of Andy Singer cartoons. You can buy the book directly from Andy and have it signed or on Amazon.
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