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White Whale

Found this truly epic image of Moby Dick on But Does It Float (http://www.butdoesitfloat.com/). Done by Tom Neely (http://www.iwilldestroyyou.com/). But Does It Float is like a virtual art gallery, in the sense that it is a minimalist space where artwork is presented with sparse supporting context. It’s exactly like walking into a white room and [...]

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Wild Things…

You are probably, like myself, eagerly anticipating tomorrows release of Where the Wild Things Are. It looks intense, it looks kinetic, it looks just as richly detailed as Maurice Sendak’s original artwork, evoking his densely hatched and lined illustrations.  The film looks alive, yet alive mainly in the imagination of a child, which has always [...]

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On Book Covers

I love The Penguin Blog in a way that might be startling. I adore Penguin in general, and that adoration causes me to replace perfectly sound copies of books with their dog-eared dopplegangers, merely to have an array of gloriously coloured spines on my shelf. Penguin books have almost always been designed to reside solely [...]

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