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Being in Honours lets us borrow FIFTY library books at a time. Best news ever.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
I don’t really agree, but this is an interesting thought. So very Kafka.
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The beautifully renovated home of architect Benedetta Tagliabue in Barcelona, Spain
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The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan.
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The short-film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is beautiful and genius. ‘Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, Morris Lessmore is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favour. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and Co-Director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals.’ The film has been nominated for the upcoming Academy Awards.
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Nigella Lawson in her library
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A crazy architect, Li Xiaodong, has designed Liyuan Library inside a frame of firewood. The inside is beautiful though.
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Phonics!
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Walt Disney reading to his daughters
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This is what I want to be doing, not studying.
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The DutchDFA network’s video profile of famous graphic designer Irma Boom.
‘Boom has made over 250 books, 50 of which are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her ‘Think Book’ for a giant coal company has become an international icon of Dutch design. She sees her books as objects, that communicate ideas and stories, and speak to all human senses.’
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Selby Drummond
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One-off wooden blocks hand-painted to look like books by Italian designer Emanuela Ligabue.
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Emily. NZ.
'What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something looseknit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through.' - Virginia Woolf
This began as a way to store the insane amounts of imagery I collect somewhere other than on my computer, and has kind of escalated from there. I post about art, fashion, architecture, design, movies, music, literature, poetry, quotes, short-films, and anything else that inspires me.
In love with Italia, Europe, New Zealand, ice cream, colours, brown paper, white ink, ribbons, printmaking, painting, reading, writing, baking, cooking, straight lines, and summer.
'all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.'- psalm 139:16
I also have a collection of ramblings about my love for Italy and everything Italian on my other blog here:
http://allthedaysordained.blogspot.com/
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