The supercontinent Pangaea that connected South America and Africa broke apart 200 million years ago. What a better way to convey the moving and shaking of the earth within a physical object than within the confines of a movable book. In ‘The Pangaea Pop-up’ Lesson at TED-Ed, animator Biljana Labovic explains how she and her team of animators created a pop-up book to visualize Pangaea -- and how you can make your own. [youtube]http://youtu.be/RZR_b753ZJ0[/youtube] Previously on Book Patrol: America's National Parks: Pop-Up Style Waldo Hunt and Pop-Up Books: A Brief Overview Pop-Up Books Meet Photoshop Maurice Sendak's First...
Get Busy at the Library
September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, a national celebration of public libraries and time to make sure that students have the most important school supply of all -- a free Library card. As a reminder of the plethora of offerings available at most libraries The Seattle Public Library has put out a list packed with opportunities to enrich your life. Here are 30 things you can do for free at The Seattle Public Library: 1. Visit a museum - we've just added the Museum of Flight and the Museum of History and Industry. 2. Learn how to write. 3. Publish your e-book. 4. Watch a...
Love & Kisses and the classics
Thanks to ebookfriendly for this gem
A Five Book Birthday Salute to D.H. Lawrence
Hailed as a genius by some, labelled an out-of-fashion misogynist by others, he's probably best known for his novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. But he also explored an extraordinary range of emotions and subject matter and was a prolific short story writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, painter and man of letters. Happy Birthday to D.H Lawrence, easily one of the most controversial writers of the 20th century. His "works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct." source ...
Encyclopedias in the hands of Mary Ann Santin
'1962', 2012 "I am interested in our archival desire to create a memory of those now gone in order to promote a collective identity" says artist Mary Ann Santin. And what better to work with to realize that interest than a printed encyclopedia; an obsolete form packed with information of "those now gone"and published with the intent to "promote a collective identity." Whether she is sanding, miniaturizing or covering it in wax the encyclopedia presents the perfect medium for Santin. Enjoy! '1971', 2012 Untitled 6, undated Untitled 3, undated Oval One, 2012. Found encyclopedia covered in paraffin wax Spring Three, 2012 Artist's website