(b)logophile

Here’s a photo my father Paul took. It’s actually not a very big spider. What he did (I kid you not) is duct-taped a lens onto the front of his camera… backwards. Why this works I couldn’t tell you… but it’s why you get that awesome blurry fading effect: the depth of field very very [...]

From a Pharyngula post I learn that the Museum of Jurassic Technology has a website. Magnificent. (A few years ago I picked up Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, about the MJT and its proprietor, in a fit of whimsy and a second-hand bookstore. Highly recommended.)

I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this. That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my [...]

Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (which I have raved about before) has won a Locus Award: for best Art Book. Well-deserved, I must say (his website has images from the book, they’re even more beautiful full-size on the page). Now go find it and read it. Look at it. Whatever you do with a wordless story-in-pictures. [...]