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BookGirl: Making Paste Paper

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. Printer, paper maker and book artist Frank Brannon. Who met Larry Lou while in the MFA in Book Arts program. At the University of Alabama, introduced Larry Lou to Laurie Corral. Director of Asheville BookWork. Larry Lou, using a long dowel to create diagonal lines on the paper,. Over which she'll draw a design. I wanted so badly to go this workshop! Monday, 20 April, 2009. Thursday, 23 April, 2009. Thank you for sharing Larry Lou's fabulous ...

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BookGirl: Andrea Dezso

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. How smitten am I with Andrea Dezso? How admiring am I of her talent, her versatility and her range? How fascinating is it that she's from Romania (Transylvania, no less) and that her Romanian culture and immigrant experience figure often in her art? The wonderful blog of the Rag and Bone Bindery. Led me to Dezso's work, and I was hooked. I want to show you every single piece that's on her pages. At the Parsons New School for Design. The indi...

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BookGirl: BookGirl's 2009 Reading

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. This is my work-around to Blogger's unfortunate inability to create separate "pages" (something Wordpress, for example, can do), so don't concern yourself with the date above. So I'm creating this list as a separate post and will link to it from an item on the sidebar of my blog's home page. I'll keep it up to date. The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens. The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp. When Will There Be Go...

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BookGirl: How Do You Feel About the Printed Word?

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. How Do You Feel About the Printed Word? I have a new widget - I Pledge to Read the Printed Word. On this blog (see left) that I found while reading one of the (too many) blogs I follow on my feed reader. When traveling - I wish I'd had one when I seemed to live on a plane during a past work life. So I'm certainly no Luddite. Curling up with the Sunday Times. When I came across this wonderful "manifesto" from Mrs. Fischer's English Classes.

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BookGirl: 04.2010

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. A Yen for Paper. I seem to be obsessed lately with advertising involving the clever use of paper. Maybe it's because interesting advertising is rare. But there's also a bit of nostalgia here, as paper becomes less and less important in society - newspapers losing ground to reading online, books in print being overshadowed by ebooks, etc. This is the trailer for Le Petit Nicolas. A live-action film based on the book. Who also wrote the Asterix.

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BookGirl: 04.2009

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. Lisa Hannigan - Handmade. Is it just me, or are we seeing a surge of of pop-up-book art and paper-cuts art? We're seeing a renewed interest in and appreciation for the handmade object. Singer and songwriter Lisa Hannigan's new CD. And the promotion for the disc, incorporate all three of these elements. Hannigan hails from Ireland, and sang backup for Damien Rice. Before being fired by him after seven years (see this NPR interview. Director o...

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BookGirl: Sunday in the Park With...

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. Sunday in the Park With. Next we headed downtown for a stroll. We live in a very dog-friendly place, so we can always depend on finding other people walking their dogs downtown on a weekend. Many shops allow pets inside, too. Twiggy and Coco had a great time exploring, then, when we took a break for hot cocoa and cookie, watching dogs and their people walk by. Oh, by the way, Twiggy has his own blog. Getting to know the dog park pups. Tuesda...

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BookGirl: Making Books with Andrea Dezsö

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. Making Books with Andrea Dezsö. I wrote in this blog. About Andrea Dezsö a year-and-a-half ago. I began with "How smitten am I with Andrea Dezsö? Well, I'm even more smitten now. When I found out that Andrea was teaching at the Southeast Association for Book Arts (SABA) conference. A scant two-and-a-half-hour-drive away, I signed up immediately. I didn't even read the description of the class. You can see her work here. You can see some of t...

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BookGirl: 03.2010

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. Ads Don't Have to be Boring. I've written about Su Blackwell's work. And it continues to amaze. Below is a 45-second t.v. advertisement for Beringer wines from 2007 that I learned about on All Things Paper. Thanks, to Ann Martin). Blackwell, a UK-based artist, combines arts (pop-ups) and paper-cutting in remarkable ways. Worth seeing is the "making-of video" for the Beringer ad (also below), which features Blackwell. Which I wrote about here.

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BookGirl: Gocco

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Random Musings On My Bookish (and Occasionally Other) Passions. I bought a Gocco (from a Japanese word loosely translated as "make-believe play") more than a year ago, and I've yet to use it. Mind you, when I learned that the manufacturer was going to stop making Gocco and shipping supplies to the U.S. in December 2008 (see here. I stocked up on inks, screens, and bulbs in a panic. But, nooooo. That didn't motivate me to actually. My Gocco. The Gocco and the supplies still sit on my shelf, untouched.