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Wow. What an amazing art installation! This is Luminous Words by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:59:59 -0400

Wow. What an amazing art installation! This is Luminous Words by Airan Kang at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC.

Check out this short video of glowing words flowing across a books’ page:

From the press release:

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of Korean artist Airan Kang. Featuring an ambitious installation of over one hundred digital lighting books and new LED paintings, Luminous Words furthers Kang’s exploration into the ontology and evolution of the book as a source of knowledge in the digital era.

thatbooksmell: These books in an espresso bar near Grand...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:49:00 -0400

thatbooksmell:

These books in an espresso bar near Grand Central Station are just images, but it still creates an amazing atmosphere.

Called D’espresso, the interior has been rotated 90 degrees so that one wall features herringbone-pattern wooden flooring while the opposite wall will have pendent lights protruding horizontally.

A photograph of bookshelves printed on custom tiles will line the floor, end wall and ceiling.

harperperennial: By Literary Tourist My new diet, you...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:12:36 -0400

harperperennial:

By Literary Tourist

My new diet, you guys.

Delicious.

Are you a Page Turner? The illustrious Sheree FItch, author of...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:08:00 -0400

Are you a Page Turner?

The illustrious Sheree FItch, author of classics such as Toes in My Nose and Sleeping Dragons all Around, talks about the importance of Canadian Literature for Project Bookmark Canada.

She is joined by special appearances by many Atlantic Canadian authors, including Nimbus Favourite Steve Vernon!

What is Project Bookmark? This is from their website:

Project Bookmark Canada marks the places where the real and imagined landscapes meet by placing text from imagined stories and poems in the exact, physical locations where literary scenes take place. We’re building a network of hundreds of Bookmark around the country, so that residents and visitors can read their way across Canada.

Atlantic Book Awards Events

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 -0400

The Atlantic Book Awards Society has just posted the events for the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival. We hope to see you at some of the Halifax Events!

Visit the Atlantic Book Awards Website for updates and the whole Maritime schedule.

Friday May 10

3:30 pm: Children’s Art Workshop with Sydney Smith, illustrator of Toes in My Nose and Other Poems by Sheree Fitch, at the Tantallon Public Library

Saturday May 11

2:30 pm: Cindy Day recalls the wisdom of her grandmother’s weather related sayings, captured in her book Grandma Says at the Keshen Goodman Library, Halifax

Monday May 13

7:00 pm: Joan Dawson reads from her book, Nova Scotia’s Historic Rivers: The Waterways That Shaped the Province, Antigonish Heritage Museum

Tuesday May 14

7:00 pm: Historic Writing Panel with finalists P.B. Waite (In Search of R.B. Bennett), Nicholas Tracy (Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN), Laurie Glenn Norris and Barbara Thompson (Haunted Girl: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery), Spring Garden Road Memorial Library, Halifax

Wednesday May 15

10:00 am: Children’s Art Workshop with Sydney Smith, illustrator of Toes in My Nose and Other Poems, Bedford Public Library

5:30 pm: The Role of the Publisher: Join this year’s nominees of the Best Atlantic-Published Book Award as they discuss all elements of the publishing process, with publishers Terrilee Bulger (Nimbus Publishing and the Acorn Press), Susanne Alexander (Goose Lane Editions) and Managing Editor Patrick Murphy (Nimbus Publishing) at Just Us Café, 5896 Spring Garden Road

It’s here! Read the new edition of Atlantic Books...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:08:00 -0400

It’s here! Read the new edition of Atlantic Books Today for free (click for link). Learn about upcoming Spring titles and the recent contenders for the Atlantic Book Awards.

futurejournalismproject: Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:55:26 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg

Survival Facts: If you were a third class passenger, your chance of survival was 25 percent

First class passengers had a 62 percent survival rate. Second class passengers had a 41 percent survival rate. The crew had a 24 percent survival rate.

Fun Fact: What happened to the iceberg?

Bonus: Images of the Titanic wreck made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by robots via Scientific American Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute, and National Geographic.

Image: April 16, 1912 edition of the New York Times.

Think you kow everything about the Titanic?

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:54:32 -0400

Of the 328 bodies found, why were some buried at sea?

Who was the unknown child of the Titanic?

What exactly was Halifax’s role in the recovery operarations?

On the recent anniversary of the famous disaster, we’ve compiled a short list of informative books about the Titanic. Read first-hand accounts of the disaster, find out about the role Halifax played in the recovery effort, and find out more about this historical tragedy in these books:

Halifax and Titanic
John Boileau

The story of Titanic’s tragic sinking on April 15, 1912, has been told countless times in films and books, inscribing it into popular culture as perhaps the best-known disaster of all-time. When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the base from which recovery operations were mounted. Eventually, 337 bodies were recovered, the majority of them by ships dispatched from Halifax. Of this total, 128 were buried at sea and 209 were delivered to Halifax—150 of those buried in three Halifax cemeteries. They remain there to this day, the largest number of Titanic graves in the world, cared for in perpetuity by the city and visited by thousands of people each year.

On the one-hundredth anniversary of Titanic’s sinking, author John Boileau examines the relationship between the city and the unprecedented tragedy. This illustrated history includes over 100 historical photographs of the people and places involved in Halifax’s sombre recovery effort.

Titanic Victims in Halifax Graveyards

Blair Beed

For eighty-five years dozens of victims of one of the most famous ships in history rested quietly in Halifax, Nova Scotia, until the 1997 film Titanic created a renewed interest in the burial sites. Visitors to Halifax have many questions about the city’s connection to the infamous ship. Of the 328 bodies found, why were some buried at sea? Why were 59 bodies sent elsewhere for burial and the rest buried in Halifax? Titanic Victims in Halifax Graveyards answers those questions while telling the intriguing and little-known story of the 150 passengers and crew who were buried in the port city of Halifax. Using official reports and newspaper articles, author Blair Beed provides an outline of life on board the Titanic, describes society as it was in 1912, and highlights the care for the dead taken by the crews of the recovery ships and those who met them on arrival in Halifax. This revised edition, with two new chapters and an updated design, is an important addition to any Titanic library.

The Sinking of the Titanic

Edited by Logan Marshall

Originally published in 1912, The Sinking of the Titanic was an instant bestseller and remains an important account of the most famous marine disaster in history. Based on the personal testimony of Titanic survivors, this book tells in remarkable detail the complete history of Titanic—from the vessel’s construction to departure from Southampton, to the collision, ensuing panic, and ultimate sinking. The chronicle includes first-hand accounts of many of the survivors, and concludes with the efforts in New York and Halifax to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. Illustrated throughout, this reprint contains the original drawings and photos of the “Great Ship” and some of its passengers—both those who survived to tell their remarkable tales, and those who perished on that fateful April night.

Here’s the full list of Nimbus Books about the Titanic

iliveinaworldoffantasyandlove: Happy National Library...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:53:14 -0400

iliveinaworldoffantasyandlove:

Happy National Library Week!!

In the US, that is. Our fellow Canadians will still have to wait until October, but we get a whole month!

Would You Want This Bookish Chair?

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:23:41 -0400

Would You Want This Bookish Chair?

makealittlething: coffee on We Heart It -...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:01:32 -0400

makealittlething:

coffee on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/57344485/via/rissrs

Ad infinitum. makealittlething: book on We Heart It -...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:44:07 -0400

Ad infinitum.

makealittlething:

book on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/57346221/via/rissrs

Photo

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:45:44 -0400

A beautiful and complex illustration by Nova Scotian Sydney...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:35:00 -0400

A beautiful and complex illustration by Nova Scotian Sydney Smith, award-winning illustrator of Toes in My Nose and There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen.

The quote is from pioneering computer scientist Alan Kay.

dark-rye:

The future is up, up, and up at DARK RYE.

Join us as we meet the people, outlooks, ideas, and trends shaping tomorrow. From architecture and urban farming to the how and the how-to-improve of energy and transportation, we bring you the good-guy rebels. Come on over. Take a peek into Dark Rye’s THE FUTURE.

Sydney Smith is from the windy east coast of Canada. He received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since then has illustrated dreams and fantastica for authors, musicians, and other inspiring artists. Sydney’s sketchbook

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Nimbus Presents…The Return of #Booknook Envy! This...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:30:00 -0400

Nimbus Presents…The Return of #Booknook Envy!

This week: The Queen’s College Library - University of Oxford

History:

http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/library/history/

Cindy Day in the most recent issue of Fine Lifestyles Magazine

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:36:00 -0400

Pages 98-99

Read the whole issue (click below to enlarge).

Old library, the Hague, Netherlands The Old Library of the Dutch...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:01:00 -0400

Old library, the Hague, Netherlands

The Old Library of the Dutch House of Representatives (Handelingenkamer) in The Hague, Netherlands. Volumes of records of proceedings and debates in parliament (Handelingen) are stored in the library of what was originally the Department of Justice. “When this Department was built at the end of the 19th century, there was no electricity. Combustible substances, such as candles and gas lamps, had to be kept away from the more than 100,000 volumes. To allow as much light in as possible, the roof was therefore constructed as a leaded glass dome. Although the library is four stories high, daylight can filter down to the floor thanks to the open cast-iron staircases and balustrades.”

snailes: All book lovers are created equal!!

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:02:57 -0400

snailes:

All book lovers are created equal!!

Guilty as charged.

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:00:46 -0400

Guilty as charged.

I think we can agree wholeheartedly. karladiaries: My life like...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:54:34 -0400

I think we can agree wholeheartedly.

karladiaries:

My life like 80% of the time.