admin @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Drupa, the printing industry’s largest fair (held every four years in Düsseldorf) has ended … and this ‘brief tale’ turned into an assignment - fortunately, finished now: off line and in the hands of the client. Meanwhile, visit the site, it’s worthwhile:
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So this tale of books got left behind in the middle ages when my [...]
admin @ June 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There were many editions of the Book of the Dead, from Egyptian relics. It was a tale that described their notion of afterlife. An instruction manual for entry into the Afterlife. They were printed on papyrus generally, and paled in the sarcophagus or coffin of the deceased. It was certainly priestly work and [...]
peterknight @ June 1, 2008 # One Comment
Stories are as old as humans, and publishing not far behind. These paintings record something significant, to some people (most certainly hunters) about 16,000 years ago near what is now called Lascaux, in France. We can don’t know why they chose to publish these pictures on the rock walls of a cave but can [...]
admin @ May 13, 2008 # 4 Comments
I was in the city the other day, in the course of my monthly pilgrimage to the temples of moneys (banks) to render obeisance (debts) as befits a humble servant of The System.
But in the bank precisely, there was a vicious little argument. The details are not relevant other than one party felt slurred [...]