Posts under ‘books’

I've neglected this place a little since my epic write-up of my epic meal at the Fat Duck. Which is a bit of a shame, as I did some equally noteworthy and interesting things last week.

Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]

As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]

So, I was just catching up on some blog-reading, and was looking at Sarah's lovely post on the backstory to Vern & Lettuce, with this ace cutaway illustration of Lettuce's burrow: The illustration instantly reminded me of a book I'd loved when I was a kid, House By Mouse. I couldn't remember who had written [...]

Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context. —— There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set [...]

As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of [...]

The next session's title, Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print, intrigued me, and prompted some great discussion. Session leader, Mary Harrington, outlined what she thinks are the five qualities of books: – physicality – fixity – boundedness – authority – universality The physical shape of books is [...]

After a lacklustre lunch at Camino in Regent Quarter (tasty food but slow and surly service), I decided I should ignore the exciting conversations happening upstairs at PaperCamp in honour of some exciting conversations happening downstairs at BookCamp. First up was a session suggested by Kevin O'Neill (not that one) to discuss the creation of [...]

There were a couple more sessions before lunch. First was Cheathco's Pirates and Scalpels: travel guides/one shot books/newspapers. As Chris confessed right at the start, he has "something of an obsession" with guide books (delineated in more detail in this post), although he is not particularly precious about them as objects. Quite the opposite; all [...]

After Aaron's talk, Tom Taylor gave a little spiel about his microprinter, a standard till printer hooked up to the internet to print whatever you command it to, which in Tom's case are things like his daily calendar, weather reports, and @towerbridge opening times to help him plan his cycling route. Nifty! The notes for [...]