For National Library Week the crew at Pogona Creative and the Orange Public Library in association with Chapman University took the runaway hit by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars and gave it the book treatment. Ladies and gentleman, here is Unread Book featuring the one and only Guy the guybrarian Enjoy! [youtube]https://youtu.be/J6zcIFUvdJ0[/youtube]
Computer-assisted cooking: IBM puts Chef Watson to work
Remember a few years back when IBM's incredible computing machine Watson appeared on the television quiz show Jeopardy!? Well, like most technologies a lot has changed since then. Watson's system performance is 2400% greater than in the Jeopardy! days and it has gone from the size of a master bedroom to three stacked pizza boxes! Now Watson enters a whole new realm, from simply being a storehouse of vast amounts information to now being able to actually create new knowledge. And one of the areas best suited for this new foray is the food universe. In 2014 IBM teamed up with the Institute of Culinary Education (ICM)...
Posters from the University of Arizona Poetry Center: 1960’s Style
Poetry is the food of the spirit, and spirit is the instigator of all revolutions, whether political or personal, whether national, world-wide, or within the life of a single quiet human being. —Ruth Stephan There was a lot of action at the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center in the 1960's. Founded by Stephan the mission of the Poetry Center was simple - to provide a place "to promote poetic literacy and sustain, enrich and advance a diverse literary culture" In 1962 The Poetry Center launched its seminal reading series. Inaugurated by Stanley Kunitz the series has hosted more than 1000 writers over the years including...
The World’s Most Translated Books (infographic)
h/t electric literature
New Hemingway wearables
The newest offering from Litographs, the company that creates literary merchandise where every "design emerges from the text of a book," is derived from a pair of Hemingway novels. The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are now available for your wearing pleasure. That's right, two classics from Papa's canon, mashed up and made anew. Litographs works closely with artists "to create a new visual experience for classic and contemporary works alike. From a distance, the artwork illustrates a theme, character, or setting from each book’s descriptive pages. Move closer and the text becomes fully legible." Hemingway is just the latest in...