BookGirl

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'...

Is it just me, or are we seeing a surge of of pop-up-book art and paper-cuts art? I know we're seeing a renewed interest in and apprec...

I had the great good fortune to take part in a paste paper* workshop with Larry Lou Foster recently. Larry Lou (Louise Lawrence Foster), a ...

A digression from "bookishness" today: I thought I'd share some photos of our outing yesterday with our two pups. We're f...

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...

This is a wonderful short video based on the recordings of Alan Watts (1915-1973), produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of ...

The late Margaret Kilgallen was a central figure in the San Francisco Bay area street art movement. She was influenced by American folk art...

I've been reading Twyla Tharp 's book The Creative Habit . In addition to thinking that she's a terrific choreographer and dance...

Forgive the digression from books today. Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance According to Lavie's blog on MySpace , the video is made up of...

As usual, there were some standouts in the year's ( 2008) reading , as well as some clunkers. Reading is such a personal experience, ...

When I returned from Penland last summer, I wrote here about artist and friend Margaret Couch Cogswell, who is currently a Penland residen...

Obviously, Lev Yilmaz has met me. Clearly, he knows how I feel today. Lev Yilmaz's Tales of Mere Existence : "Ready" Yilmaz i...

This post has is not about my usual topic: books, but it it speaks -- if indirectly -- to the season. The video is part of the documentary ...

Here's a must-see video commissioned by UK publisher 4th Estate and created by Apt Studio. According to the post on 4th Estate's bl...

This video -- made by Canadian director Andrea Dorfman using Tanya Davis 's song, Art -- reminded me of the joy that art brings me. Ma...

Interesting article in the Sunday Styles section of today's New York Times about "slow blogging" and the apparent shift in b...

I'm fortunate to be part of a group of regional bookmakers, the Slow Book Salon. The title is modeled after the "slow" moveme...