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From Stephen Elliott
You’re a reasonable reader. You like the aesthetics of an old-fashioned paper-and-glue book, but you’re not averse to turning the virtual pages of an e-reader either.
If that description sounds like you, here’s a DIY project you might like: making an old book into a Kindle case.
...moreRemember when R. Crumb blew our minds and our concept of dedication with his thorough illustration of the Bible?
That project sounded physically and emotionally exhausting. Still, he must have started a trend because artist, Matt Kish, is creating an image for every page of the epic novel, Moby Dick.
...moreOur very own film connoisseur, Nick Rombes, reviews Tao Lin and Megan Boyle’s DIY film, Bebe Zeva, which was entirely filmed on a MacBook. The film revolves around a 17 year-old fashion blogger.
“…a film like Bebe Zeva is a window not into Zeva or Boyle or Lin or even the mumblecore movement, but rather into a particular and exciting moment in the history of cinema, when the motion picture camera’s liberation from its traditional form and shape becomes, slyly, the very subject of cinema itself.”
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Still here for you, never you worry.
The misfits of modern agribusiness.
Design Sponge has some lovely terrariums to show you.
2010 is here, so now we have robot border guards.
Landscapes made from tiny things. Evidently we are feeling cute today.
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Back in December 2007, Radiohead released their album “In Rainbows” digitally at an undetermined cost; the listener chose what to pay. This move questioned the “value” of music. When music can be downloaded or burned from a friend at the cost of $0, or £0, what will your listener voluntarily pay?