These fun little flip books made in Japan feature a number of unexpected designs that make use of negative space and secret “compartments” that are gradually revealed as you flip through the books. There are several books in the series published by Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo and you can pick them up on Amazon. Here’s thebug one. (via Travelry)
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These are illustrations from a children’s Art Book about the 30 most famous paintings and their funny (or sometimes not so funny) history!
Written and illustrated by Belgian children’s book writer Thaïs Vanderheyden. Published by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts in 2013.
A librarian in Saint Omer, Northern France, has stumbled upon a 1623 copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, AFP reports. Remy Cordonnier found the rare compilation of the Bard of Avon’s plays while preparing books for an exhibition on English literature.
“It occurred to me that it could be an unidentified First Folio, with historic importance and great intellectual value,” he told AFP.
The book has now been authenticated by one of the world’s leading Shakespeare experts, Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, who said it had been 10 years since a new copy had been discovered.
He told AFP that the ancient manuscript was “immediately identifiable,” thanks to recognizable features such as unique markings, paper weight, and a series of errors found only in this particular edition.
Although books of such scarcity fetch top prices, the Saint Omer copy has several flaws, including missing title pages, heavy annotations, and the absence of the entire play The Two Gentleman of Verona.
Assessing the damage, library director Francoise Ducroquet estimated that the book would likely be worth substantially less that the €2.5 – €5 million other volumes of the First Folio have achieved at auction.
Of an estimated original print run of 750, only 233 copies of the First Folio have survived.
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After giving a popular TED Talk about her record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, Amanda Palmer decided to pen a book about her experiences with asking her fans for support.
Amanda Palmer talked to BuzzFeed about her new book, The Art of Asking.
The musician (who formerly worked full-time as a living statue) talked to BuzzFeed about what she hopes artists and fans will take away from her experiences.
1. There is no “right” way to make money as an artist.
“I think the key is just a general kind of allowance for artists to use the tools they want, connect with the audience in their own style and unique way, and I think the world would be best served backing off a little bit with all of this extreme judgement — ‘U2 is doing it wrong’ and ‘Taylor Swift is doing it wrong’ — and instead just take the wider perspective that we’re all just doing things differently. Every artist has a different relationship with their fans, with their business, and the playing field is very wide. So I support Taylor Swift’s decision to take her music off Spotify if she wants to — it’s her prerogative as an artist — so if she wants to take her music off, good for her, as long as she doesn’t judge me for keeping my music on Spotify.”
2. You can absolutely make your own opportunities.
“I actually just did an interview in London about a research project that found that women are far more successful at crowdfunding than men are. I found that fascinating, especially in a world where industries can be very sexist and women find themselves locked out of opportunities because it’s a boy’s club. It’s great that they can sort of skip that hurdle and say, ‘Hey, crowd, I don’t need the system — I have you.’”
3. Remember that artists need fans as much as fans need artists.
“One of the best house parties was when I drove to Portland from Seattle, stuck in a traffic jam and right before I left, I got my first death threat. It was right around the time of the Boston marathon bombing and I had written an entry for a blog that a lot of people really hated, and on the website someone wrote that they were going to track me down and kill me. I wasn’t really scared of some wacko but it wasn’t a pleasant feeling, being stuck in traffic for seven hours with that. By the time I showed up to the house party an hour late, there were all these wonderful people in the backyard already drinking and bonding and loving each other and I just totally needed them more that night than they needed me.”
4. You also never know who might become a friend.
“There’s a chapter in the book about me and a massage therapist named Courtney. I was just in Courtney’s car, getting a ride to the airport and when you get to that chapter, you’ll understand how significant that is because she was a huge Amanda Palmer hater. It was right after the Boston bombing and life was really shitty and I was getting a lot of hate from a lot of sites for a lot of reasons. It was my birthday, and Neil [Gaiman, author and Amanda’s husband] and I were in Seattle to deliver a couple of house parties and Neil decided to treat us both to a massage for my birthday. He booked randomly online and an hour later, we walked into this girl’s office and when she saw me … she said, ‘When I saw your names, I thought it was my friends playing a practical joke on me. I need to talk to you. I am a person who’s been writing horrible, excruciatingly mean things to you on my blog and you might not want to get on my massage table.’ And I got on her massage table and she massaged me for an hour while I lay there and cried. It was just this moment of total dual forgiveness. And we’ve become friends.”
5. Never be afraid to ask.
“Ask where the benevolence is and don’t spend your time dwelling on anger and resentment toward the people who aren’t inclined to help you. The world owes you nothing and as a musician, you’re not entitled to anything but you can most certainly ask for what you need and see who is heeding your call.”
The fact that Americanah is not the long-awaited masterpiece does not mean that Adichie is a writer of note or that has lost touch.
Masterpiece for Adichie was Half of a Yellow Sun which told the tragic period in the history of contemporary African struggle of Biafra and even that terrible blow to the stomach of The Purple Hibiscus , the delicate and touching story of a little girl who knew too early religious intolerance and the darker side of her country, Nigeria.
And the strength of the author’s right here: to make the reality of the Nigerian public interest, Americanize, somehow.
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The distance between Nigeria and the United States is enormous, not only in terms of kilometers. Leaving for a new world by abandoning one’s life is difficult, even if that world has the traits of a paradise, but for Ifemelu it is necessary. Arriving in America, Ifemelu must learn again to speak and behave. Ifemelu never knew being black: it turns out in the United States, where the company seems stratified by color. Exasperated, Ifemelu decides to give voice to their discontent from the pages of a blog. Her post will quickly win a large audience of readers, who grows up to open in Ifemelu unexpected and fortunate opportunities on the professional and private.
The author says it will investigate “how you learn to be blacks in America, “and the novel, written by a century-long mold, only goes from the loneliness of immigrants, fear of white Americans, even the word black.
Among long flashbacks (reflections on American blacks by a black American is not the right insight, unfortunately) imagine a thread of dissatisfaction at the end of the 458 pages of Americanah.
There is something extremely boring at the end of the events of Ifemelu, something that does not have the innovative thinking that, but that is little more than an old chats on a world-known.
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