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Magpie Monday

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Art Nouveau portraits. Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged akinetopsia, ambient music, Anastasia, animation, Art Nouveau (portraits), astronomy, Bigby Wolf, Bill Willingham, Billy Nunez, Black Lady (Sailor Moon), book cover art, Book Mania!, Bryan Singer, Christina Oppold, Chuck Wendig, Cinder, Craig Hamilton, Crysta (Fern Gully), Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, Daniel Dos Santos, Dave Hensley, David Malki!, death of film, Derek Kirk Kim, Dr Atmo, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, etymology, Fables, failing vs. quitting, FAX +49-69/450464, film trailers, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, frogs, frost flowers, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hawkeye, home libraries (design), I Have Your Heart, intelligence supplements, interviews, io9, Irvine Welsh, Isles of the Sun by Margo Lanagan, Jack the Giant Slayer, jerks (attraction to), Jim Batt, Jim Fern, Joe Daly, John Kenn Mortensen, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Juls Chong, Katherine Salant, Kickstarter, Kim Boekbinder, kishokahime, Leakey’s Second Hand Bookshop, Lili (Legend), linguistics, London, lunar phases, Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice), Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds by Mike Allen, Malta (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child), Mark Farmer, Molly Crabapple, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil's Puppet Dreams, Night Shade Books, No Return, Odette (The Swan Princess), Pete Namlook, Pi vs. Pie, Porno, Ray Snyder, Right Here by David Steffen, Robbie Trevino, Russell Hinson, Sarah (Labyrinth), Scarlet, science fiction (history), seals, self-surgery, short films, siblings, Skagboys, Slow by Erin Morgenstern, Sorsha (Willow), Speed of Love by Deborah Walker, stop-motion animation, Strange Horizons, Susan J. Morris, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Childlike Empress (The Neverending Story), The Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn), The Milky Way, The Most Important Man in the Universe by Joseph Zieja, The Nerdist, The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer, The Simpsons, The Stone Badger by Misha Nogha, The Trap by Steven Kahn, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Your Problem, Thumbelina, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trainspotting, Tune: Vanishing Point, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wondermark, Zachary Jernigan | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 10 September 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I came across Kris Kuksi‘s elaborately detailed sculptures about two years ago, and for some reason unknown even to me I didn’t do any further research on him. Clearly, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged Alex Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed Meets Parkour in Real Life, Athenaeum by J★RYU, author photos, Awesome People Reading, Axel Medellin Machain, Ben Towle, bird funerals, book cover art, BookRiot, bookstores, Chuck Wendig, comic books (organization), Daily Science Fiction, Deepa Mehta, Divination & Delusion, Don't Write Comics, Downton Abbey (Season 3), El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Hand, Errantry: Strange Stories (cover art), fairy-tale films, fake foreign accents, film trailers, For They Heard the First Sound and Trembled by Jessica Breheny, Game of Thrones (theme song), Georgia O'Keeffe, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, J★RYU, John Bishop, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julie Ditrich, KellyThompson, Kris Kuksi, Le Parkour, Leah Palmer Preiss, Let's All Sing like the Birdies Sing by Paul G. Di Filippo, Lindsey Stirling, Marc Basile, Medusa, Michael Cunningham, Midnight's Children, Overheard at The Platonic Ideal Bar and Grill by Aimee Vanessa Blume, Paul Muad'Dib (Dune), Peter Hollens, post-genre, Rachelle Gardner, Richard Scarry, Rotofugi Gallery, Salman Rushdie, sculpture, sex (19th century euphemisms), sex (writing), sexual promiscuity, Small Beer Press, style guides, testosterone, The Ghost of You Haunted Me... by J★RYU (exhibit), The Mobius Garden by James Bambury, The Taste of Salt by Rachel Halpern, The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson (cover art), Trouble Magazine, Will Ludwigsen, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman (TV series), zombies | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 20 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Look at this beautiful little monster! My friend Laura shared this photo on Facebook, and I just fell in love with this baby Amazon Milk Frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix). I … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged A Good Man is Hard to FInd by Flannery O'Connor, Adèle Blanc-Sec, Alan Rickman, AlphaBooks, Amazon Milk Frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix), and Watched by Rahul Kanakia, anti-suicide nasal spray, apostrophes (possessive), Argentina, Batman, Ben Towle, Bigby Wolf, Blue and Blue by Jennifer Linnaea, Bone and Ash and Butterflies by Julia Rios, book cover art, bookcases, bookshelves, bookstores, bookworms, Borg Mary Poppins by Kelly Tindall, Cat Hellisen, Christopher Boffoli, Chuck Wendig, comics (writing), copyright, Dana Scully, David Michalek, DIY writing fellowship, DNA as a data storage, DNA testing, Doctor Strange, Doctor Who, Dr. Seu, drainpipes, drinking cocoa prevents senility and lowers blood pressure, Edward Burne-Jones, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Emma Frost, Emma Peel, Ernest Hemingway, feminism, Fifty Shades of Grey, Flannery O'Connor, Gillian Anderson, Hellfire Club, Herman Melville, how to read someone's mind, Hugh Laurie, Inception (soundtrack), Isaac Cates, Jakita Wagner, Jill Thompson, John Constantine, John Hughes, Juan Santapau, Kirsty Stonell Walker, koalas have human fingerprints, Late Bloomers, Lexa Hillyer, literal green eggs, lonely galaxies, male contraceptive pill, Malekith the Accursed by Patricio Oliver, Matilda, metaphor, Mitch Pileggi, Moby-Dick, Molly Ringwald, money-saving tips for writers, myth studies, Neil Gaiman, Oh My God, Oracle, peacocks, pensions for writers, plotting, Portraits in Dramatic Time, Pre-Raphaelites, private writing, Quentin Blake, Rhoda Belleza, Roald Dahl, scene breaks (writing), Shark Week, Sharktopus, short films, super-hero films, superheroes, Tansy Rayner Roberts, TARDIS, The Avengers (Steed & Peel), The Fire Gown by Michael Swanwick, The Hotel of Suicides by Mike Resnick and Sabina Theo, The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters, The Sandman, The Secret Knots, The Seven Deadly Sins, The X-Files, Three Panels, Time Ladies, trans fat (evil), truck driving, virgin births, voice (writing), Warren Ellis, We Planted the Sad Child, What an assault on the imagination, When the Sea is Rising Red, Whisper, William Shunn, X-Men, YA literature | 4 Comments

Magpie Monday

Posted on 25 June 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The summer solstice (the longest day of the year) was last week, and in celebration Irene Gallo rounded up a collection of paintings her artist friends “thought best represented … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged Alan Moore, AlphaBooks, Andy Hull, Angelina Jolie, arsenic, Art Spiegelman, Austria Solar, Ben Towle, book cover art, book promotion, Bookfession, BookRiot, Christoffer Relander, Chuck Wendig, colors (women), Daniel Clowes, Disney, dolphin, Dungeons & Dragons, editors, Eeyore, Elizabeth Spann Craig, fairy-tale photography, family trees, fantasy, fantasy (writing), Futurama (title sequence), gas masks, Gérard Dubois, Housekeeping, Irene Gallo, Janice Hardy, Jasper Fforde, Kirsty Mitchell, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leni Zumas, library system, love (addiction), Maleficent, Marilynne Robinson, multiple-exposure portraits, N.K. Jemison, Neil Gaiman, novel (writing), octopus, Once Upon a Blog, peppermints, Pytor, reading speed, scared to death, setting (as character), summer, summer solstice, Sutured Infection, The Eyre Affair, The Rules of Magic, The Simpsons, The Solar Annual Report 2011, The Storyteller, The Woman Who Died a Lot, Theodora Goss, Thomas Allen, Thursday Next, Ursula K. Le Guin, What Was That Book?, world building (short stories) | Comments Off

Video Friday

Posted on 13 April 2012 by Robert

In case you were wondering, I assure you that I am not going to make Video Friday all about TEDTalks, but I enjoyed these two and wanted to share. The first is Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret, sharing some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Video Friday | Tagged book cover art, Chip Kidd, Frank Warren, PostSecret, TEDTalk, The Book Cover Archive | Comments Off

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