Today I found a gem, the Professional 16/35mm Cameraman's Handbook by Verne and Sylvia Carlson and it feels like a bible. Well, it is for film school and camera enthusiasts. The cover I mean has the texture of the Holy Bible and the inscription is engraved in gold.
The book has a lot of diagrams on the mechanisms of the arriflex and bolex cameras. It also has a tsep by step guide on loading on loading your roll. Yup all manual from here, nothing digital, nothing automated and that's the beauty of it. Now if only the book came with a 16mm camera. Maybe I have to check out Quiapo for that!
Just found the best invention created for bookworms. A soft plastic ring that keeps book pages open.
Whether you're on the tram, at the park, reading at an awkward angle or missing an opposable thumb, the ThumbThing is certainly handy to keep those pages at bay.
Wish I could get these in my neighborhood bookstore, they are to die for! How postmodern and post apocalyptic ey?
The cover for Android Karenina
If only these were out when I was in High School then the classics wouldn't have been a total bore. Silas Marner could have been Silas Mechwarrior Robot! and I could have read that in one go.
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Winters shares a byline with Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The HuffPost talks about writers like Ben H. Winters on how he co-authors with dead people particularly Jane Austen. And how he upsets the literati and the purists. Read More
To date there are rumors of a movie deal for the books. Yeah I would like to see Elizabeth Bennet take a bite out of Mr. Darcy! A nod to the strict feminist approach
The legendary novelist whose novel Catcher in the Ryle became the signature voice for the angry and alienated youth, it was almost like reinventing adolescence.
The whole world catches its breath and mourns the hermit Salinger.
The Secret History of JD Salinger The Catcher in the Rye's voice of postwar teenage disaffection seems to me to articulate the experiences of an earlier generation
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
