Monday, May 9, 2011

Building bookshelves


Check out the neighbours! Love the ceramic bookcase nestled into this building in Amsterdam - that's my kind of architecture. I wouldn't mind looking at that view either, beats your average brick wall. Thanks BookshelfPorn.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

All tapped out...





Somewhere in India a factory manager is turning out the lights on the last typewriter production line in the world...
Godrej and Boyce, the last remaining typewriter factory on Earth has just closed down, with only a couple of hundred machines left in stock.
The firm began production in the 1950s - when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described the typewriter as a symbol of India's emerging independence and industrialisation. Despite the onset of computer age it was still selling 50,000 models annually in the early 1990s, but last year it sold less than 800 machines.
No matter how progressive technology becomes, nothing will replace the staccato sound of typewriter keys pounding out a letter.
I'Ll miss YOu tYpewRiterS...

Monday, May 2, 2011

Bedtime stories




One for the mamas and the papas out there...
Go the F*ck To Sleep is described as 'a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Honest, profane and affectionate, Adam Mansbach's verses and Ricardo Cortés' illustrations perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, and open up a conversation about parenting in the process.
Here's a sample:
The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the f*ck to sleep.
Order your copy here!