pow pow!

I really really want this book for my coffee table. It is a book full of photos by Pierre Le Hors. Gorgeous, I tell you!

weekend: corn & books.

photo by tim.


Happy Tuesday! Some people think that Tuesdays like today are awful because they take the role of Mondays, but how can you hate a day like today? We just got back from a long, delightful weekend, and we have a short work week as a result. Why can't every week be like this one?

I'm hoping all of you dearies out there had a great labor day weekend. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I went to Iowa for Barnstormer with some friends, and it was a load of fun. Sadly for the blog, I didn't take any pictures. Gasp! I know! But, I think it was more important for me to just take it easy. We all deserve a break sometimes.

It was a fun trip. I've never left on a road trip at night - midnight no less! We drove straight through till Iowa and crashed as soon as we got there. The show was awesome. The line up was of 8 bands, though we only stayed for 5. We were exhausted and just ready to go to bed. Plus, the ones we did see were so good, we felt it had already been worth it.

In other news, I started reading a new book: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. So far, it's been exceptional. All in good timing too, as I was getting very bored with Milan Kundera. (Sorry, Kundera.) Anymore book recommendations? I'm trying to make a list!

movie recap: midnight in paris.

Ah, Midnight in Paris. This was seriously one of the best films I have ever seen. Form your own opinions, but I'm pretty sure you'll be agreeing with me after you see it.

Gil Pender, (Owen Wilson) a successful but disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiance, Inez (Rachel McAdams) travel to Paris with her parents on a business trip. It doesn't take them long to run into friends of Inez, a rude know it all who takes every chance to prove everyone wrong. Inez's parents clearly disaprove of Gil and everyone seems to laugh at his idea of writing a novel. Gil takes a stroll alone one night, gets lost and finds hims in a car with complete strangers... and complete legendary writers and artists. Every night at midnight Gil is able to sneak away into the 1920's, a time period he not only worships, but is writing about in his novel. In his travels, he comes across people like Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald (Alison Pill), Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali (Adrian Brody) and others. Not only do they help shape his book, but help him figure out his own life and what is important to him.

For all you history and art buffs out there, you will love this. It's funny, romantic, adventurous and totally believable. Owen Wilson did a remarkable job, hands down. Don't even get me started on Earnest Hemingway or Dali! So it was really great and I can't stop thinking about it. So go out there, see it, and report back! How did you like it?!

tree of codes.

Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer is here! Beautifully die-cut pages that were published by Visual Editions, when no other publisher thought it was possible.

Synopsis?

"Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life — as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice."


This is more than just a book. It is definitely a book sculpture.

Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer - Public Reactions from Visual Editions on Vimeo.

Get it & be merry! (I can't wait to get my hands on it too!)