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The BibliOdyssey Book is launched

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:26:24 +1000

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.

Site announcement.

fmd, it was a lot of work.

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Stick Maps

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:16:18 +1000

Stckchrt6

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.

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Magyar Poster

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:12:12 +1000

Pocs

Pocs 1

Pocs 2

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

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Extinct Excursion

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:10:14 +1000

Riding Dodo

'Riding Dodo'

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

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Chironomia

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:32:26 +1000

Elocutor

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

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Judith Schaechter Stained Glass

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:54:31 +1000

Judith Schaechter - Specimens

Judith Schaechter - Hyena Snake Comet

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

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Got Wood...or not?

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:28:54 +1000

Take-g toys a

Take-g toys

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]

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-esque

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:38:11 +1000

Jean Gourmont arabesque

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

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Children Awful

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:35:02 +1000

Cannibal Kids

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

No.

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Swimming Horses

nobody@vox.com(peacay) — Sun, 27 May 2007 11:07:21 +1000

Horse Sculpture a

Horse Sculpture

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.

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