Well, it's taken a year of arguing, praying, begging, persuading, shouting, hundreds of emails and a ton of research, but the BibliOdyssey book is finally in release!

Yay.

It's in bookshops in UK/USA in early/mid-November and elsewhere a bit later.

• Europe
• Everywhere else

Site announcement.

fmd, it was a lot of work.

The venerable JM is back on board at the nonist after a digital sabbatical and recharge, and delivers a great post about ocean mapping in Polynesia in days gone by - using bamboo.

150 surreal, odd and/or generally disturbed Hungarian posters from Pocs-posters.hu. Click on Plakaton.

'Riding Dodo'

by Kevin Titzer - driftwood,metal from candy tins, paint.
[via Goddelijke Gladiolen].

This Elocution Guy gif image is made from illustrations in the 1803 book - Chironomia - by Gilbert Austin on rhetorical instruction [source]
Kind of via Cabinet Magazine's great article on elocution/gesticulation

Wonderful twisted and unique stained glass designs at Judith Schaecther's new site.

Man, if these things really are handcrafted multiple-wood toys with inlay and interlocking hinge joints, there is no way on earth I would let a child near them. I, on the other hand, would love to play with them. Unless they're plastic?? Nothing pings a plastic look but the pics aren't big enough to tell I don't think. Must cost a packet. [via]

Another fine Giornale Nuovo post: Tales of the Arabesque.
{I mean, they're all fine. But somes is finerer than otherers.}

Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday on Kids books.
Is nothing sacred?







No.

I really couldn't figure out from the bodgy online translations what this is about - I think it's memorializing some military event - save that it's a new (not quite finished) public sculpture in (I think) Moscow. These are meant to be swimming horses so presumably water will be cascading down when it's finished. More images: here and here.