Beautiful highways?
peterknight @ July 26, 2008 # 3 Comments
Somebody in this region tried this some years back: design a garden, with trees, flowerbeds, shrubbery and all, alongside a highway - it’s not too hard to do, as long as there’s some way of providing a water supply and some people willing to undertake a bit of regular maintenance (here, along Provincial Route 5 in Cordoba, Argentina, had the fire brigade of a town nearby provide irrigation services but it went to weed when enthusiasm from the volunteer gardeners ran out).
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“Getting into print”: A (not so) brief tale of books (3)
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 [...]
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“Getting into print”: A brief tale of books (2)
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 [...]
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“Getting into print”: A brief tale of books (1)
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 [...]
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