Books

LookyBook


I’m pretty sure that the best part about having a kid, better than all the love and milestones and blah blah blah, will be getting to buy and read kids books. I love kids books. Almost as much as I love cake. Kids mean more cake, too. Basically kids are the answer to happiness for me but not in a loving them way, more in a getting what I want way. The internet, in an obvious attempt to stop me from reproducing, has come up with a new site called LookyBook. The site features hundreds of children’s picture books from cover to cover, both new and old, making it easy for parents to decide which books they’d like to get for their child. It comes with all of the usual bells and whistles including a favorites list (bookshelf), sharing, purchasing (Amazon and Barnes & Noble), as well as embedding the flash book on a website (you might have noticed). It’s nice to know that the internet wants to keep me from having kids. I’m warning it though, I’ll replace The Girl’s pills with aspirin if there isn’t a free cake delivery site up and running in the next few months. Consider yourself warned.

LookyBook

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Interactive
Kids
Technology

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Tank Books


Tank Magazine has unveiled a new collection of novels by great authors called Tank Books. The idea is that since public smoking is going to be banned why not take up another addiction in its stead. Now whenever you reach for that pack of smokes you can pull out Heart of Darkness instead. Your lungs will be healthier, your mind sharper, and you’ll get to spend just as much time out on the patio. I appreciate their spreading great literature and a killer design all in one package. The books themselves come in specially design cigarette packs that are authentic right down to the foil. I can’t wait for some desperate bastard to use a page from one of these books to roll his own. Silly addicts.

Tank Books

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Thomas Allen


Thomas Allen cuts out the covers of old paperbacks and arranges them into new scenes creating a 3-dimensionality that the characters probably never got to have in their written form. But as original as the idea is, it’s the tension that Allen creates through his lighting and composition. Take away the clever pop-out trick and he’s still a helluva photographer. One of the best things I’ve seen all year.

Thomas Allen

3-D
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Photography

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Miranda July


Artist/Director/Writer/Actress/Cutie-Weirdo Miranda July has made a site for her new book (it’s not out yet), and it’s awesome in simplicity, honesty, and humor. She seems like a good person to eat bagels with.

Miranda July

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Weird

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