20111001 “Unsolicited letters in the 1800s”, available for the Kindle

More good news: I just had my Unsolicited letters in the 1800s book published in Amazon! Which means you can get your own ebook copy almost instantly, instead of having to wait for the print edition to be delivered to your home. Since it’s got a lot of images, it weighs quite a lot for [...]

20110408 Unsolicited letters in the 1800s

A playful exercise containing a series of real 21st century spam e-mails received by the author and literally transcribed into paper while maintaining the ‘spam look’ aesthetics and, at the same time, embracing the ‘analog glitches’ such as ink stains or smearing that are the unavoidable consequence of using traditional media. So what’s that, you’ll [...]

20061010 Using skeletons for selling books

Foyles is a big independent bookshop. It is in Charing Cross Road, quite near the St. Martins Art School which I mentioned before when talking about their funky displays. So maybe because of that, or not, they try to have original displays as well. The current ones can be viewed until 15 october and feature [...]

20061001 As seen on books only…

I was reading The lord of the rings, and then I came across that part where Pippin and Gandalf meet Denethor for the first time. And then Pippin resolves to pay obey to Denethor, gives his sword to Denethor and then says these words: Here I do swear fealty and service to Gondor, and to [...]

20060124 ¿Leer libros al completo?

Salió una noticia hace tiempo en algún periódico inglés (ahora mismo no recuerdo cuál era). Básicamente la profesora de uno de los colegios con mejores resultados académicos dijo que pasaba olímpicamente de los planes de estudios, y que en lugar de estudiar tan sólo fragmentos de los libros, los leían al completo. Y la verdad [...]