José Joaquín Atria is an amazing soul who stumbled across our website and felt that ‘Our Beliefs’, our essay on why we exist and what we stand for, was worthy of converting to his mother tongue. We would like to thank José a million times over, not just for his translation, but for putting smiles on our faces and letting us know our words are appreciated.
This is just amazing; long exposure art using video and colored pen lights.
Now see them in motion:
Pure talent.
According to this study, we should probably put images of eyes all over this site - people supposedly tip three times as much if there are images of eyes present.
Don’t worry, we won’t.
We swear.
“you gotta do the cooking by the book” - that’s right, teach your kids to follow the rules and never experiment!
Lazy Town - Cooking by the Book - Google Video
Next up: “You gotta color inside the lines”
and “Always think inside the box”
Oh, nevermind.
Worthwhile reading:
Michael W. Dean’s documentary Hubert Selby Jr.: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow finally has a trailer!
Hubert Selby is one my favorite authors - I hadn’t read him until after I finished writing Click, but after several readers compared my writing to his I began devouring his work. I take the comparison as a compliment of the highest order; Hubert Selby, Jr. is… a landmark in literature. I’m not finished all of his books yet and I feel terribly sad at the thought that one day I will be (though I suppose there is always re-rereading to be done).
If the trailer is any indication, It/ll Be Better Tomorrow will be well worth viewing, and then some.
-kristopher
Michael W. Dean, director of the documentaries DIY or Die! D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and ‘Hubert Selby Jr.: It/ll be better tomorrow’ and author of the $30 Film/Writing/Music School series of books turned us on to bookcrossing.com (our user name is ‘anothersky’). It’s a fantastic site that allows people to put books out in the wild and track them. Basically, you put a label on a book, and give it to a friend or leave it at a coffeeshop. Each person who finds it can log in, say where they found it, review it, and then passes it along to somebody new.
We think that’s a great idea, so we put 10 copies of Click into bookcrossing circulation. Five were handed out at Wordstock, one copy was given to somebody at the Red & Black Cafe, two were handed out during the Last Thursday artwalk in Portland, one was sent to a friend to hand out in NYC, and the last will be sent for free to the first person who asks for it. All we ask is that if you dig it, you spread the word.
Last night was the Last Thursday artwalk in NE Portland. We handed out two bookcrossing copies of Click and a bunch of bookmarks.
There was a little kid, maybe ten, selling jokes for a quarter. I gave him 36 cents and told him to make it good. and this is what he said:
Q:why don’t blind people go skydiving?
(wait for it…)
A:because it scares the hell out of the dog!
It was totally worth every penny. I’m not sure if it’s politically correct, so if you’re blind and were offended while reading that joke… we apologize. Blame the kid. He’s the potty mouth.
This is where we’ll post stuff that has pretty much nothing to do with Another Sky Press - but that we think is worth a look.
On April 9, 2006, one day after we launched, we received our first contribution. Thank you.
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