So happy people keep sharing cool map stuff with me (yes, you there little uikstar, thanks for sharing). Check this map of what our world should look like according to some. The map is published on 9gag.com; a website filled with hilarious stuff. The map itself doesn’t need any explanation I guess…
Maphead, Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings. As you can imagine, I can’t wait to read this book about what is so fascinating about maps. I love the design of this cover also, especially the map legend. Another post will follow later about my findings, I will buy the book this weekend, so stay tuned. Oh, and the author even turns out to do geocaching. Now we’re talking!
‘Could you show me that book on the topshelf?’ ‘Are there any new arrivals?’ ‘I prefer the one on the left, that cover is much more expressive’. In the latest bookshop in New York, these comments won’t be heard. Today, the New York Times published about a brand new bookshop by Andrew Kessler. The bookshop is stashed with copies of one book. One book. Actually a book by mister Kessler himself. The book on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander Mission in 2008 needs to be sold, obviously, but there is more to it: “This makes books feel like an art installation, we should care about them”, says Kessler in the New York Times interview. The shop is even equiped with all regular bookshop things such as signs like Best Sellers or Sale, just brilliant. Going to New York anytime soon? Visit the Ed’s Martian Book at Hudson Street, also described as a Monobookist (gotta love that word)! And all others, you can read the interview by Elissa Gootman here.
photo by Guy Calaf for the New York Times
credits for these cool photos:
Rachel Kramer Bussel on lustylady.blogspot.com
Every now and then, I go through one of my favourite books, which was a gift by Parisian friends at my graduation party. Parisiennes is a book full of amazing photography, as a hommage à Paris women. The book is published by Flammarion, and as they say ‘la mythique Parisienne existe bel et bien!’ I still feel homesick for Paris once in a while, so today it is the perfect book to flick through. I just decided it is hightime to book a spring trip to my biggest crush.
