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Art of McSweeney’s Video
by Dan
Design & Typography / June 24, 2010
A novel with each cover hand-illustrated by the author... Literary journals bound by magnets, or designed to look like junk mail... The sharp wit, gorgeous design, and playful "why not?" invention of independent literary publisher McSweeney's have earned it a large and loyal following and made its journals, books, The Believer magazine, and Wholphin DVD's collectible favorites of readers and graphic designers alike.
Created by the McSweeney's staff to commemorate their 11th (or 12th) anniversary, The Art of McSweeney's showcases all their award-winning art and design. It features 100's of images, interviews with collaborators such as Chris Ware and Michael Chabon, and dozens of insights into McSweeney's quirky creative process and the visual experience of reading:
Creases and Razor Blades
by Dan
Graphica / June 23, 2010
Illustrator Nick Marinkovich talks about his process and working on KENK: A Graphic Portrait in this great behind-the-scenes interview:
A New Book from the Originator of The Blood Type Diet Focuses on Disease Prevention
by Liz
Health & Wellness / June 22, 2010
Dr. James D'Adamo burst onto the world of natural medicine in the 1970s with his revolutionary discovery of, and approach to, healing based on a person's blood type. Written in the infancy of America's modern natural-healing movement, his first book, One Man's Food ... is someone else's poison, detailed his unique individual treatment method that correlated a person's type of blood with diet, exercise, and spiritual practice. Just An Ounce of Prevention . . . Is Worth a Pound of Cure comes almost 30 years later. Raincoast’s own health-conscious publicist Danielle recently had a chance to ask Dr. D’Adamo some questions about his most recent foray into writing and his latest research on healthy eating.
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James Jean’s RIFT ~ YouTube Video
by Danielle
Art & Photography + Craft / June 21, 2010
Almost a decade into his astounding career, James Jean has emerged as one of contemporary art's most important voices. From sell-out gallery shows in New York City and crowded signings at Comic-Con to kudos from the fashion world for his work for Prada, Jean's richly detailed art has struck a chord with fans across the globe.
RIFT (due in stores August) showcases a brand-new collection of art in an elegant accordion-book format. Inside, two haunting landscapes span the connected pages—folded in a variety of ways, the pages reveal myriad images hidden within the larger paintings.
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Days With My Father on CNN
by Dan
Art & Photography / June 21, 2010
Photographer Phil Toledano, author of Days with my Father, talks about living with his dad's dementia and the love between a father and son in this deeply moving video for CNN:
A belated Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there... 
Days with my Father
by Phillip Toledano
ISBN 9780473158040
$22.95 cloth
Phillip Toledano was born in London. He lives and works in New York City, where after a decade as an advertising art director, he returned to his true passion, photography. Visit www.dayswithmyfather.com for more information.
Lonely Planet World Cup 2010 Blog
by Dan
Sports + Travel / June 18, 2010
Did you know that the biggest sports tournament in the world is going on right now in South Africa?
What? You haven't heard the vuvuzelas?
OK so the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa has been kind of hard to miss since it kicked off on June 11th. It's the first World Cup ever to be held in Africa so it is a big, big deal!
Football is, of course, a global game however and if you're looking for an international perspective on the tournament or just trying to understand what all the fuss is about, our friends at Lonely Planet are collecting together posts by their global band of bloggers to highlight the best of the World Cup around the world on their website.
Now, if someone can just tell me how to watch the England game this afternoon at my desk without anyone noticing, I'll be set... 
Seth Covers The Walrus Summer Reading Edition!
by Dan
Graphica / June 18, 2010
The new July/August issue of The Walrus magazine features a beautiful cover by Seth:
The fabulously Canadian illustration was chosen by readers of the magazine.
The Boho Index for Big Cities and Small
by Jamie
Design & Typography + Gift & Stationery / June 11, 2010
As the Canadian distributor for Moleskine, we are always looking out for information on people who love Moleskine. It is truism is that if you do creative work in your life you are probably a fan of Moleskine.
Richard Florida, theorist of the Creative Class, has a good post over at The Atlantic Monthly that discusses a recent study on the Boho Index for major North American cities (with populations over a million). Florida cites work from the Bohemian Index from the Martin Prosperity Institute that tracks cities with the highest percentage of working artists, musicians, writers, designers, and entertainers. Turns out that Canada is a Boho Haven.There are three Canadian cities in the Top 10; Vancouver is # 2, Toronto # 4 and Montreal rounds out the top ten. While flattering, none of this is hugely surprising.
But one of the major knocks against Creative Class theory is how can creative people actually afford to live in Creative Class cities? Most artists can't afford a fair-trade, organic, shade-friendly coffee at 49th Parallel in Kits let alone buy a house, condo or rent a single room apartment in Vancouver. This is what is cool about this index--it ranks smaller cities too, and here, Canada does very well: Halifax, Victoria, Peterborough, and Guelph all who have Boho Index values above the norm.
Lesson from all this? Grab your Moleskine Notebook and move to Peterborough, you will be very happy.
The National Post loves The White Stripes and so does Conan O’Brien!
by Danielle
Art & Photography + Events + Music / June 11, 2010
In today's National Post, Vanessa Farquharson interviewed photographer Autumn de Wilde.
Rock photography usually involves band members trying to look as cool as they possibly can while digital effects make up for the rest. But take a look at the images in Autumn de Wilde's collection, The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights, and you'll find Jack and Meg White sitting on an old couch, surrounded by Inuit elders with goofy grins on their faces.
Other photos in this new book depict Meg inspecting equipment on a fishing boat, Jack looking down the aisle of a plane and the two of them quietly trudging across a frozen tundra.
Throughout the nearly 300 images -- captured by de Wilde as the rock duo toured every province and territory in Canada, in 2007 -- the colour scheme is almost always limited to black, white and red.
Full article can be read here
Despite over a 1000 people queuing up to see the gig, just 300 saw the show, which took place at White's Third Man Records.
The pair performed a set that included covers of The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army', Elvis Presley's 'Blue Moon' and Radiohead's 'Creep'.
A glimpes of that magical night...
GalleyCat reviews Android Karenina
by Danielle
Fiction / June 09, 2010
...When I began reading Ben H. Winters' mash-up novel, Android Karenina, my hopes were not high for a quick, light or funny read. Oddly enough, it was all three. Mash-ups are the latest thing in the literary world, mixing classics with new world monsters and demons. It's not really all that new; the music world has been doing it for ages. Mad Magazine used to rewrite the comics--Al Capp writing Brenda Starr, for instance.
Winters, a playwright, librettist, and author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, connects all of Tolstoy's dots in the cleverly bizarre world he has created and he transforms a Russian novel into a reasonably demented work of science fiction...
~ Louise Leetch
More of GalleyCat's review here
Other books in the Quirk Classic series include:
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
SENSE AND SENSIBILTY AND SEA MONSTERS
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS
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