Saturday, January 6, 2007

Bookish and not so bookish things

Explanation 1: Re An-G
Naoli is my friend, Ben is her boyfriend. Ben is also a pod-caster, film-maker, video blooger, hip- hop promoter. He has three shows on the web a technology show, a hip hop show (hosted by Fritswa) and a Electronica show (hosted by An-G).

An-G's Electronica show can be found at
http://myspace.com/codedsignal3
This is a photo of An-G and Charles. Looking at An-G's Myspace will give some idea of how dynamic she is.
She is an American: this means that she was born and raised in Colombia, speaks Spanish and English at an amazing rate, (sometimes I think she was doing both at the same time) lives in Connecticut, absolutely dotes on her dogs, is as vivacious as they come and really wants to come to Australia to see the wild life. As can be gathered from the photograph, Charles is managing, but only just.

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/hssl/hsslexhibdesc.cfm?id=430

The rest of the photographs were taken at the New York City Library. Apparently more happens in this library than the filming of Ghostbusters. It has the same feel as the State library in Melbourne. Quiet reading rooms with people who look scholarly, daggy, cool, quirky, pretentious, interesting, or a combination of those qualities. Apart from books and reading rooms there is a shop (where I almost bought a William Shakespeare doll) and exhibitions of posters, books, maps, magazines etc.

The exhibition that I looked at was on Japanese illustrated books. These books were/are not necessarily for children. There were many serious, contemplative images and illustrations that had been don to go with classic tales of heroism and tragedy. I favoured the more lighthearted illustrations.



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