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Category: art

Le livre du futur

Via the Book Oven Blog, an nifty little French video by Editis:

I mostly agree with what I’m seeing here, and it gets me excited. Except for two things:
1) When they get to the museum and scan the art book into their reader. I call bullshit. Art books are objects you own. They go on your [...]

Little Brother Deluxe Edition by Voyager Books

I usually go on and on about ebooks, and I do most of my reading on my iPhone these days, but I also love me some finely-crafted codices.
I learned of this British deluxe edition of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother by accident, almost—Voyager Books advertises on Tor.com, and I was mangling some newsletter copy related to [...]

In which I rant against entitlement

Megan Messinger has posted a good piece on Tor.com outlining the recent minor shitstorm that George R. R. Martin has started by essentially telling his detractors to back the fuck off, and let him write his books in peace, and at his own damn pace. Since the rampant sense of entitlement so prevalent in today’s [...]

DrawMo! 2008

I’ve been invited to join the DrawMo! 2008 group blog. A drawing a day for the month of November. Let’s kick it.

On Tor.com: A Closer Look at Watching the Watchmen

My close reading of Watching the Watchmen is up on Tor.com, for those interested. I really enjoyed this book, especially considering that I was very skeptical as to its value, in light of the excellent Absolute edition of this seminal work. Go, take a look-see.

Papercraft Camerahead from Little Brother print

My inbox overfloweth with WIN today. Christopher Beaumont, one of the recipients of the Little Brother print I made (inspired by the eponymous book by one Cory Doctorow) created this kickass papercraft model of Camerahead, one of the characters in the print. He will be posting has posted a downloadable printout on his site, Cubeecraft.com, [...]

SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition, Parte Dos…

Is live (and has been for most of the day, I’ve just been…busy. You know, with the day job and all). Check out my review of the cover for Halting State by Charles Stross here, along with a whole bunch of really insightful comments from the Tor.com community. It’s been fantastic to have a place [...]

Lorenzo Homar on BibliOdissey

Lorenzo Homar (along with his sometime collaborator, Rafael Tufiño) is one of my favorite artists, ever, and a huge inspiration in my own work. Imagine my delight to see BibliOdissey showcase some of his works from the Homar collection at the Princeton University Library. Shiny! Go check them out, and enjoy!

Little Brother Binding by Evilrooster.

Abi Sutherland, Making Light contributor and bookbinder extraordinaire, asked me for some of the off-register misprints from the first Little Brother edition, in order to put them to some good use. Well, she’s designed and made a kickass binding out of them, and showed me the pictures today. I then proceeded to run around the [...]

Little Brother Print

  

Little Brother
Originally uploaded by pablodefendini

The Little Brother print is finished, after a weekend in the printshop, featuring various mishaps and frustrations, and many, many learning experiences (may those never end!). In all, I have ten copies that need a good home, so if you want one, and are willing to PayPal me some shipping money, [...]