“
Next to the multi-tasking, attention-deficit frenzy of the Web, the printed page is blissfully disconnected. What might have been interpreted as print’s weakness turns out to be a strength: print is serene and meditative in a world where these qualities are ever more scarce.

And if print is cold, it is offset by the warmth of paper. Set against the harsh glare of Vistas and e-books, paper draws you in, each page soaking up and softly reflecting light. That’s why we so often find ourselves printing copies of anything that takes more than a few minutes to read. We shuffle the pages, we feel their weight, we scrawl in their margins, and the paper itself communicates: a deckled edge conveying a certain refinement, the thickness or texture catching our fingers, the turning of a page imparting momentum to the text itself.
Extract from Codex in Crisis (2008) by Anthony Grafton (via fuckyeahbookarts)
This was posted 3 weeks ago. It has 171 notes.
fuckyeahbookarts: msnbc: Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83. The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator. Image:  Ls  /  AP file Sendak on death: “I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.”

fuckyeahbookarts:

msnbc:

Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83.

The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator.

Image:  Ls  /  AP file

Sendak on death: “I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.”

This was posted 3 weeks ago. It has 2,073 notes. .
I’m glad this plant is nice, and not so much a prick —C compostal: iCac Pokey and quite dryI am green and also redbut I am thirsty. 

I’m glad this plant is nice, and not so much a prick

—C

compostal:

iCac

Pokey and quite dry
I am green and also red
but I am thirsty. 

This was posted 1 month ago. It has 10 notes. .

So good. Congrats Ping!

pingszoo:

I’m back on Tumblr! 

For now I’ll just say that my new book Swan Lake published by Nobrow Press is OUT here in the UK. Get your copy/more photos HERE.

To access old blog posts on my posterous, click here.

This was posted 1 month ago. It has 55 notes.
Yes, it has been a while, but it’s not the end! And with Jeane and Saejean leaving for Asia, it is definitely NOT the end. Good luck in your adventures, you two!

Yes, it has been a while, but it’s not the end! And with Jeane and Saejean leaving for Asia, it is definitely NOT the end. Good luck in your adventures, you two!

This was posted 3 months ago. It has 3 notes. .