Back from Sweden (an awesome place, with awesomely attractive people) and catching up on the web stuff. Some quick links then.
Wish I'd seen this before I went travelling: the 1942 guide How To Spot A Jap.
To heal your brain with some nice art you could do a lot worse than Mioke. Hit paintings, then blacksnow, then click on the images. Wonderful, intense, dark. They remind me of Jim Woodring. And of the spectres in His Dark Materials. I would give my pancreas to have one of these on me wall. LITERALLY.
And Mr Woodring uses Moleskine too, so there.
11-Jul-06 at 9:05 am | Permalink
Blacksnow > These are beautiful. I especially like the one of the thingies coming out of the water.
Your pancreas > Is worth three cola cubes and a foamy banana at VERY best, i’m sure.
11-Jul-06 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
And I’ve give my FOAMY BANANA as well.
11-Jul-06 at 7:49 pm | Permalink
Perhaps you should scan a few pages of your moleskine and slap 'em up here for a more authentic read.
Have you read The Art of Travel? It's a really simple and great book.
You seem to write more about places of transit than your actual destinations. Tis interesting.
11-Jul-06 at 8:08 pm | Permalink
> scan a few pages
What an excellent idea. Will try and find something that doesn’t look too schizophrenic.
> Art of Travel
Righto, looks interesting.
> transit
In truth I really enjoy certain aspects of the transit (the bits without heavy bags, clearly). Being in planes, on trains. The sense of being in limbo, of being nowhere. I generally feel a faint sense of disappointment when planes have to land.
In this case it’s coincidence though, that’s the only bit I got to write up ahead of time. More actual stuff if I get some more hours.
11-Jul-06 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
COOL image!
>Will try and find something that doesn’t look too schizophrenic.
Nooo, you have to pick pages at random and not cheat.
21-Jul-06 at 7:29 am | Permalink
I’m looking for a banner image to go in the TF header above.
You see the image in this post?
What if someone chopped a horizontal strip out of that cool image and placed it right-justified in the header? And added a gradient fading to black on the left side?
Who could have such skills?