If I hadn’t stumbled across this book in the Blurb Bookstore, I would have never found my way to chicagobikepolo.com, and that would be a damn shame. But I did and I did, and now I’m neck deep in bike polo links, and Wheeled Horses is this week’s Book of the Week.
Bike Polo – apparently [...]
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Bikes, polo, and book of the week
August 27, 2008 – 5:54 pm
We’re so Web 2.0*
August 22, 2008 – 3:40 pm
One of the staples of today’s Web 2.0 companies is the existence of Guitar Hero or Rock Band in the office** (we have both, thank you very much), and frequent jam sessions with an adult beverage or two. It’s like the evolution of the foosball table I suppose. (Yes, we have one of those too.) [...]
You take a sleeve. You take a face. You make Sleeveface (And Book of the Week)
August 20, 2008 – 1:18 pm
I love discovering cool things that I had no idea existed…but when they’re really cool, I tend to hate that I wasn’t first on the scene. And so it is with this week’s Book of the Week, Recordheads: A Photo Book by Rick Hebenstreit.
When we found this book we thought, “hey, cool idea.” Little [...]
Tate Modern Street or Studio photography book winners announced
August 19, 2008 – 7:56 am
Enjoy urban portraits? So do we. The Tate Modern has been hosting the exhibition, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, since May. The exhibition closes on August 31st, but will live on in a Blurb book. Blurb has partnered up with the Tate Modern and Flickr to create a photography book of 100 [...]
Book of the Week goes A-list
August 13, 2008 – 3:23 pm
Paul Melcher, named by American Photo as one of the 50 most influential individuals in American photography, says, “Olivier Douliery does not capture faces and places, he gets their soul.” After checking out Olivier’s book, Portraits, and selecting it to be this week’s Book of the Week, we’d have to agree.
Olivier is an award-winning [...]
Help us keep Austin weird in ‘09
August 12, 2008 – 3:32 pm
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival recently launched their interactive panel picker which means you can help shape the panels for next years event!
Heart just skip a beat? Yeah, ours did too.
Voting is simple - sign up for a free voting account here and then browse through over 10 categories of topics ranging from [...]
Vacation inspiration? Enter your book in Blurb’s travel contest
August 11, 2008 – 2:10 pm
When you get back from a vacation, at the top of the list is to download your digital pictures and relive all the good times from your trip. But don’t you want those good times to continue? Making a book from your trip photos means those vacation memories can live on and be shared with [...]
