Final outcome for Interweb project- metaphor for the Kindle. There are 40 little books inside.
(via quiethouses)
“Among the many things the Japanese people are mourning this week are their libraries,” writes The Book Bench’s Macy Halford in memoriam. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake that kickstarted a ring of Pacific tsunamis, displaced thousands of people, and terminally damaged multiple nuclear reactors recently has also shaken the Japanese library system to its knees. Read more …
Awful.
“These are images of hope, as much as of disaster, and they speak to the idea that the things most fundamental to a culture—in this case, its codified knowledge—have not been lost.”
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Eyder just pointed this out to me. Books, apparently, won’t save your life! -Wright Bryan
When Lacey began these computations, her toe crossed ground from which it is difficult to return: she started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Natalie Portman - Black Swan New York Premiere, November 30th 2010
The ruby on her finger matches the colour of her lips and nails. Mmmmm.
Natalie Portman, holding a Lolita book purse from Olympia le Tan. The day has finally come when books are used as accessories.
I want that purse.
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