We geek out on books about the sciences, remote places, and unique spaces - so when we heard about Paul Freeman’s book “Space Lands” we just about hit the moon in excitement. The book is an exploration of “the past and future sites of the rocket age,” and features large format images of places that [...]
Category Archives: Book of the Week
A Powerful Book of the Week
May 1, 2009 – 9:59 am
Recent bestseller, The Power of Pain by Rich DeSalvo, is one of the most inspiring books we’ve seen in awhile, in particular for people suffering from chronic pain. Prior to writing this book, DeSalvo worked on Wall Street as a senior executive at several of the worlds largest financial institutions for over 25 years, but [...]
A Book of the (Dead) Week
April 16, 2009 – 2:43 pm
The first collectible concert book of The Dead is up on the site! The original members of the band rocked it in Greensboro, NC and the book is making us all a bit jealous that we weren’t there to see it live. Jay Blakesberg, official Dead photographer, pulled together some seriously amazing shots of the [...]
Taking 5 with the Kitchen Sisters!
March 20, 2009 – 2:50 pm
We’ve been lucky enough to hang out with the Kitchen Sisters here in Austin during SXSW as they promote their new Blurb book “Hidden Kitchens: Texas.” It’s been received with great applause and it’s given the Blurb crew some good ideas on where to eat in Austin! This morning the Kitchen Sisters were interviewed on [...]
An iStockphoto Book of the Week
February 26, 2009 – 2:08 pm
The fine folks at iStockphoto created “Parallel Perspectives” - a fantastic collection of images from their massive artist base (over 65,000 artists contribute images to the site!).
iStockphoto founder and CEO, Bruce Livingstone sums it up nicely by stating, “We’ve made it our business to document the world that surrounds us, to send in dispatches from [...]
A Little Family History
February 5, 2009 – 12:53 pm
In a digital era, more and more of our family photos spend their lives on our computers or on photo sharing sites, versus in photo albums or piled in shoe boxes around our houses. While saving the space has its perks, it is still nice to sit down and peruse a family album every once [...]
New Year’s Resolutions and a New Book of the Week
January 15, 2009 – 11:59 am
New Year’s resolutions are often weight loss resolutions, which really just make us think about food all the time. So it’s only fitting that our BOTW is about pasta! Khoa Le’s book, Baked Ziti With a Jalapeño On Top is an illustrated story about a young girl in a multi-racial house, and her love [...]
