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Shaun Tan short film!

Friday, June 4, 2010

Shaun Tan has made a short film of his picture book The Lost Thing. There’s a trailer on youtube: it seems like the art direction has perfectly captured the style of the book1 but the animation looks a bit clunky. Despite which, I am running to see this … when I find out how/when I [...]

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Upcoming: great Balkan music

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Ok, short notice: tomorrow night at Pakhuis Wilhelmina there’s a fantastic lineup: Amsterdam’s Caspian Hat Dance at 9 then Kočani Orkestar at 10 (and Serbian dj Cigan at 11:30, apparently). That’s gonna be a party. It’s part of a three-day festival (there are films showing at Kriterion and De Brakke Grond too, and more more music, [...]

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Annual clearing sale at Nijhof & Lee

Monday, February 1, 2010

I probably shouldn’t talk about this, to keep the competition down, but… The fabulous typography/design/art bookstore Nijhof & Lee is having their annual clearance sale. Except that last year they didn’t have one, so this is a biannual (even more stuff worth drooling over, no doubt). February 6 and 7, from 10am. I’ve never been [...]

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October: Chiang by Small Beer

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hey here’s happy news: Small Beer Press will be bringing Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others back into print in October. A book I’ve wanted for ages, and a publisher I like paying: win!

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Countdown

Monday, December 14, 2009

This time tomorrow, I’ll be just breaking into a sweat as the committee tear into my dissertation. Please wish me all the luck you can spare, I’ll need all of it.

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BLDGBLOG Book!

Friday, April 10, 2009

The BLDGBLOG Book has become a reality! Can’t wait for this one, and Amazon is selling it for only $20 (even the list price of $30 is less than I expected — it’s pretty illustration-heavy). You can see some spreads on Flickr (adorably photographed on what I presume is the author’s floor, with what I [...]

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New Lhasa album, coming April 21st!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Lhasa has a new release coming April 21st. Fantastic. [How do I know? Soundamus tells me so.]

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How can I not have heard of this?

Monday, July 21, 2008

They’re filming Watchmen. They’re filming Watchmen. Whether it’s a train wreck or a triumph, I am seeing that film.

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His birthday; our present

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Next week it’s Brendan Adkins’ birthday, and he’s giving us a present. Ommatidia, the first Anacrusis book, already exists. Wow. And in a week or so we’ll be able to order it. That gives you about a week to trawl through the archives and discover that that’s exactly what you’re going to do. Update: It’s [...]

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BLDGBOOK

Saturday, May 26, 2007

The super-cool architecture blog BLDGBLOG will be publishing a book! (The bad news is, not until spring 2009.) Congratulations to Geoff, and everyone else should use the time to wander over and check out his archives — by the time the book appears, you’ll know you need it. Some favourites of mine: 1, 2, 3, [...]

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