Love this cover.
Tom Waits | News | Tom Waits “Seeds On Hard Ground” Chap Book UPDATED:
Tom Waits is releasing a limited edition chap book of “Seeds On Hard Ground” exclusively through his website in collaboration with Anti records to raise funds for homeless services in his region and to bring attention to a growing problem in today’s hard times.
Tom Waits is one of my heroes.
The Three Little Pigs and the Secrets of a Popup Book - An iOS app that shows the inner workings of its pop-up book. Extremely cool. And oddly enough, I was talking with a friend at work a couple days ago about how cool it would be if, when you pull an app like Safari beyond the interface bounds, you could see a bunch of animated gears spinning and working under the hood.
Halo: The Flood - Okay, this book? In a word, poor. I read the first chapter and that’s all I could take. The writing is just bad. (★)
On the literary horizon is an extraordinary book entitled “Waits/Corbijn – Photographs 1977-2010” featuring an array of beautiful artistic images of Tom Waits taken by the renowned photographer Anton Corbijn. Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn are a perfect artist – artist match. Their 30-year collaboration now yields this book of portraits by Corbijn plus more than 50 pages filled up with images/writing by Waits himself.
Yeah. I went there. Read a novel based in the Halo universe. On my iPhone.
It’s what you’d expect of a hastily written book based on a video game. That didn’t make it unentertaining. It was quite entertaining actually, owing to the merits of Halo’s rich universe. But it is unfulfilling.
Synopsis: battle, training, battle, training, battle, battle, brief ruminations, battle, battle… and so on. More an explanation than an exploration of the origins of Master Chief and the Halo universe, The Fall of Reach builds a framework but doesn’t go much further.
★★★ - I liked it, but hey, I’m a Halo fan. Bias applicable here. {Buy it on Amazon and be as big a Halo nerd as me.}
"There are many ways to look at the past: as a list of important dates, a conveyor belt of kings and queens, a series of rising and falling empires, or a narrative of political, philosophical or technological progress. This book looks at history in another way entirely: as a series of transformations caused, enabled or influenced by food."
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An Edible History of Humanity « tomstandage.com - Wishlisted.
