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Magpie Monday

Posted on 9 July 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ My thanks to my friend Laura Crary for sending me this image, a still life with books by Stockholm artist Maria Friberg (part of her Still Lives series, 2003-2007). … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged A Mighty Girl, Alan Moore, AlphaBooks, Alzheimer's Disease, Andreas Feininger, animation, Annie Owens, annotations (LXG), anxiety, Before Watchmen, Ben Towl, Bizarro Classic, Black Lodge, Breaking Bad, Bruce Bickford, busyness, Cameron Cook, Captions, Cat Rambo, Cate Blanchett, Cecelia Holland, Charles Tan, cheese, Christopher Barzak, chronologies, color acuity, color tests, Cracker Barrel, Dale Cooper, DC Comics, Doctor Strange, Double R Diner, Easter Island, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Klages, F. Brett Cox, Fabio Fernandes, family trees, Franz Kafka, Galadriel, Gary K. Wolfe, geek culture, Green Man, Gregor Samsa, Guy Gavriel Kay, Guys Read, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeffrey Ford, Jeremiah McDonald, Jess Nevins, Juan Santapau, Karen Burnham, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Kevin O'Neill, Laura Crary, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Leah Palmer Preiss, left-brain right-brain, Locus, Loki, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings Project, Mad Men, maps, Maria Friberg, Marvel Comics, Mary Poppins, Matthew Salesses, Michel Fiffe, Mikhail Bulgakov, miniatures, Neil Gaiman, Nick Fury, Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe (Deluxe Edition), Organization, Ourit Ben-Haim, Paul Graham Raven, Paul Witcover, Peter Jackson, photography, psychic powers (faux), puppets, Red Room, revision, Robb Pratt, Russell Letson, Sam Howzit, Sarcastic Voyage, Siobhan Carroll, Stefan Dziemianowicz, subtitles, superheroes, Superman, Superman Classic, Sutured Infection, Terry Bisson, The 'Busy' Trap, The Avengers, The Big Bang Theory, The Glass Noose, The Hobbit, The Master and Margarita, The Metamorphosis, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Secret Knots, The Underground New York Public Library, Theodora Goss, Tim Kreider, timelines, Twin Peaks, Watchmen, Who's Who, Will Ludwigsen, Witch House, witches, writing (research), xkcd | Comments Off

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

Magpie Monday

Posted on 23 January 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ You know how much I love the miniature, and German artist Frank Kunert’s miniature art makes me think twice about what I’m seeing (they’re also really funny, as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bookfession, Cameron Cook, Chuck Wendig, David Lynch, Drive, Edward Gorey, Emil Johansson, exit deer, family trees, Frank Kunert, genealogy, gossip, horror films, James White, Jeff VanderMeer, Keanu Reeves, miniatures, movie posters, Nick Mamatas, severed heads, Shortlist Magazine, Side By Side, Starve Better, Super Punch, The Lord of the Rings, writing | Comments Off

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