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Month: November 2008

  • Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery

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    Though I’ve come across it before, the Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery is one of the unusual galleries featured in the Museum of Online Museums I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Phillip K. Dick was a science fiction writer active in the mid Twentieth Century, noted for his eccentric and um… original viewpoint. Though…

  • The Museum of Online Museums

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    I’ll start out by giving the Major Time Sink Warning. The Museum of Online Museums is site maintained by Coudal Partners, a design firm based in Chicago. Basically it’s a list of links to an eclectic collection of online sites, either virtual museums, or online extensions of brick and mortar museums. It ranges from the…

  • A Vermeer in Rome

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    In a situation similar to the one I described in my recent article on A Vermeer Comes to California, Jonathan Janson, the director of the amazing Essential Vermeer web resource, let us know in a comment on that post that there is currently a Vermeer on view in Rome. Normally the southernmost location to see…

  • Gris Grimly

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    Gris Grimly is the author and illustrator of children’s books like Jordan Ray’s Muddy Spud and the Wicked Nursery Rhymes series. He is also the illustrator for numerous other books, including The Dangerous Alphabet with Neil Gaiman. His web site, Mad Creator Productions, has a showcase of many of them, as well as a portfolio…

  • Kerr Eby

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    For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service of their country in military service. The same date, November…

  • Gilles Tréhin (update)

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    In 2006 I wrote about autistic savant Gilles Tréhin and Urville, a large and fantastically detailed city that he has been creating in mind since the age of 12, and shares with us by way of hundreds of intricate drawings. I recently learned that shortly after I wrote that post, Tréhin’s English language book about…