More than $100 million in rare coins and banknotes will be joining the biggest gold nugget ever discovered in California next week as the National Money Show comes to Sacramento.
Friday, March 11, 2011
#netsuke #collection The Hare With Amber Eyes #fiction review
God of very small things
De Waal is relatively unknown in India, but his ceramic works and installations are well-known elsewhere, and he is considered one of Britain’s most skilled ceramic artists. The collection of 264 netsuke — bibelots originally carved and made in Japan, where they were the ornamental fasteners for containers to be worn with samurai clothing — were part of his inheritance from an eccentric and beloved uncle, Iggie Ephrussi.
The true brilliance of The Hare With Amber Eyes lies not just in the gripping story De Waal has to tell, or the exquisite precision of his prose, but his honesty. He uses his research to imagine, but he never invents; and by respecting the limits of any investigation into the past, he recreates it with far more accuracy than if he had invented it. Writing of his work as a potter, of the way in which he understands how small objects displace a part of the world around them, de Waal explains: “How objects get handled, used and handed on is not just a mildly interesting question for me. It is my question.”
The Hare With Amber Eyes is his answer, and it is one of the most moving, and most haunting, non-fiction books that you will read this year.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Interview with the Book Surgeon (7 pics) - My Modern Metropolis
Interview with the Book Surgeon (7 pics) - My Modern Metropolis
The last few days of February brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to My Modern Met thanks to the incredible work of Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon. In fact, even bookstores could appreciate Dettmer's incredible art with Harvard Books recently tweeting, "I suppose we don't necessarily recommend you do this to your books, but WOW. It's the work of the 'book surgeon.'"
We got in touch with Dettmer to ask him a few questions about how his style has evolved over the years. (On a side note, the artist said at the beginning of his email to us: "My inbox is flooded from the resent surge in blogs - the recent wave all started by your site - thanks)!" Read our interview with him below as you enjoy more of his fantastic work.
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We got in touch with Dettmer to ask him a few questions about how his style has evolved over the years. (On a side note, the artist said at the beginning of his email to us: "My inbox is flooded from the resent surge in blogs - the recent wave all started by your site - thanks)!" Read our interview with him below as you enjoy more of his fantastic work.
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Portrait of the #Collector - always the "bug"
Lilollady Comments Blog Archive The Portrait of the Collector!:
"The collector is a person who has been bitten by the collecting bug. It is a person who is passionate about a certain item almost to the distraction of everything else. Their spouse, family, and friends have become aware of their position in relationship to the beloved collection."
See this blog for several more articles about collecting.
See this blog for several more articles about collecting.
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