Winnipeg’s Cultural City HallTumblr (3.0; @aquabooks)http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku3avdHdn11qz7gc6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hostelcolonial.tumblr.com/post/297730871/polaroid">hostelcolonial</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Polaroid, Buenos Aires</p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/297761812http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/297761812Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:57:51 -0500public artbuenos aires<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv4t5dCedD1qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Today in Canadian History - December 23, 1908</b></p> <p>Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh born in Mardin, Ottoman Turkey. Karsh would go on to be one of the most famous portrait photographers of all time. (Above is his photo of André Malraux.)</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/297594179http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/297594179Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:53:00 -0500portraitstoday in historycanada<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv43ogVYiU1qzsn48o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Interesting article, but not altogether true.</p> <p><a href="http://infoneer.net/post/296911348/forget-e-books-the-future-of-the-book-is-far-more">infoneernet</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-post/say-so-long-book-we-know-it?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29">Forget E-Books: The Future of the Book Is Far More Interesting</a></b></p> <blockquote> <p>Take a long hard look at a book, any book. Pull a favorite off a shelf, dust off the top—maybe it’s the Bible, the Koran, a novel by Jane Austen or Leo Tolstoy. Perhaps you’re more into Dan Brown or Jacqueline Winspear mysteries, Doris Kearns Goodwin biographies, or you’ve dog-eared page after page in Skinny Bitch. You may even gravitate toward business books like Viral Loop, my latest. Now say your goodbyes, because there will soon be a day that you may view such analog contrivances as museum pieces, bought and sold on eBay as collectibles, or tossed into landfills.</p> <p>Coming soon… It’s the end of the book as we know it, and you’ll be just fine. But it won’t be replaced by the e-book, which is, at best, a stopgap measure. Sure, a bevy of companies are releasing e-book readers-there’s Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and a half dozen other chunks of not-ready-for-primetime hardware. But technology marches on through predictable patterns of development, with the initial form of a new technology mirroring what came before, until innovation and consumer demand drive it far beyond initial incremental improvements. We are on the verge of re-imagining the book and transforming it something far beyond mere words.</p> <p>Take note: The first battlefield tanks looked like heavily armored tractors equipped with cannons; early automobiles were called “horseless carriages” for a reason; the first motorcycles were based on bicycles; the first satellite phones were as clunky as your household telephone. A decade ago, when newspapers began serving up stories over the Web, the content mirrored what was offered in the print edition. What the tank, car and newspaper have in common is they blossomed into something far beyond their initial prototypes. In the same way that an engineer wouldn’t dream of starting with the raw materials for a carriage to design a rad new sports car today, newspapers won’t use paper or ink anymore. Neither will books. But mere text on a screen, the stuff that e-books are made of, won’t be enough.</p> </blockquote> <p>» via <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/">Fast Company</a></p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296950355http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296950355Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:17:18 -0500technology<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv44j08Jc01qzzrfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thingslikethat.tumblr.com/post/296935494/whats-under-your-mask-thats-the-question-that">thingslikethat</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b><a href="http://definitivetouch.com/news/whats-mask-adrian-pavic/">What’s Under Your Mask?</a> </b>That’s the question that German illustrator Adrian Pavic asks in this series of prints. Honoring the masked icons in Western society, ranging from Darth Vader, to Spider-Man, and even the French thief Fantômas, this print is an interesting look at identity and our society’s obsession with secrets.</p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296943762http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296943762Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:11:00 -0500artfilm<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv309n4Vgz1qzptlvo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOYW: Sweet Light Edition</p> <p>We bought this light in Stillwater, Minnesota last month. It’s from an old church and we had to use a little ingenuity to mount it without the original brackets and hardware. In addition to having my electrician re-wire the fixture itself, I ended up mounting it with a styrofoam ceiling medallion (that I bought at the Habitat restore for $5), plywood, eight giant hooks, one giant washer, and a plumbing fitting.</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296917889http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/296917889Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:49:16 -0500gpoywoutsideangleshow-to renovate a chinese restaurant<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv31g4qAes1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/295969622/hey-ladies">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://hilobrow.com/2009/12/22/browism-6/">Hey Ladies</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295970679http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295970679Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:58:30 -0500Book Illustration<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krqv8gIEeB1qzkhnyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://art-attack.tumblr.com/post/295926748/iheartmyart-outsiderart-christian-bok-and">art-attack</a>:<a href="http://www.iheartmyart.com/post/295893854/outsiderart-christian-bok-and-micah-lexier">iheartmyart</a>:<a href="http://outsiderart.tumblr.com/post/216867502/christian-bok-and-micah-lexier-front-windows-of">outsiderart</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Christian Bok and Micah Lexier - Front Windows of Gallery MKG127, 2007<br/> Toronto, Canada</p> <p>photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26453451@N00/899011352">whoaa buddy</a></p> </blockquote> <p>I remember this!</p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295936173http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295936173Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:33:39 -0500writerspublic art<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2zuwFNh91qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Black Books, <i>Hello Sun</i></p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295921527http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295921527Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:23:20 -0500black books tuesdaytvbookshops<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv1uq0TuCH1qz4cx0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://puscic.tumblr.com/post/295755685/bibliodyssey-victorian-infographics">puscic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html">BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics</a></p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295786906http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295786906Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:45:51 -0500book art<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2pzi7v7q1qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Today in History - December 22, 1943</b></p> <p>Beatrix Potter dies in Cumbria, England</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295629125http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295629125Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:50:05 -0500writerstoday in historyBook Illustration“At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity”<br/><br/> - <em>Chico Mendes (1944-1988)</em>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295598579http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295598579Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:27:29 -0500quotes<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2owvgqSl1qzptlvo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Today in History - December 22, 1988</b></p> <p>Environmental activist Chico Mendes assassinated in Brazil</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295597851http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295597851Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:26:55 -0500today in history<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2bllbik91qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This Week at Aqua Books reader <b>Marjory Szurko</b>, librarian at Oriel College, Oxford, cuts a tart at her Edible Exhibition. All of the dishes were made by Marjory from Sixteenth Century recipes. The ingredients themselves were more recent.</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295240934http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/295240934Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:39:21 -0500Notes from Blightycustomer portraitsThis Week at Aqua Books“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.”<br/><br/> - <em>Bob Newhart</em>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294432274http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294432274Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:08:35 -0500musicquotes<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv1cqyQmFz1qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Blind Date</i>, Matte Stephens</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294429266http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294429266Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:06:34 -0500Matte Stephensart<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv1cndD10N1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/294425951/shag-on-trix">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://trixietreats.blogspot.com/2009/12/shags-come-undone.html">Shag on Trix</a></p> </blockquote>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294428069http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294428069Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:05:51 -0500art<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv1350Jl1l1qzptlvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This Week’s <a href="http://www.aquabooks.ca/newbooks.php">New Books Page</a> now live</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294133194http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294133194Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:39:00 -0500This Week at Aqua Booksbook covers<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv101hgN6d1qzptlvo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Miniature Stories of the Saints - Book IV</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294044925http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294044925Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:32:05 -0500book covers<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv100sDMCh1qzptlvo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Miniature Stories of the Saints - Book III</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294044368http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294044368Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:31:40 -0500book covers<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv0zzn1Hsi1qzptlvo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Miniature Stories of the Saints - Book II</p>http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294043351http://aquabooks.tumblr.com/post/294043351Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:30:59 -0500book covers