Michael Thorn's photoblogPlanned copyright changes could stop authors writing for schools
valley stories … by martikson on Flickr.
Just added to one of my ‘Red’ galleries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9382058@N07/6759849305/galleries/
Michael Thorn is the founder of Achuka, a children’s book, and now more general book website begun in 1997. Achuka has been a review and news website, but Michael wants to be a digital publisher and so created ACHUKAbooks. Just last week, he published his first book: a digital edition of The Field Bill Nagelkerke. A writer and reviewer, Michael tweeted about how different the experience of being a publisher was from his other book-connected roles, and I asked him to do a guest blog about the experience of being a first-time publisher. I should probably make it clear that Nosy Crow doesn’t have any connection at all with Achuka or ACHUKAbooks, but one of the good things about being a small independent publisher is that it is somehow easier to talk about the work of your “competitors” in the field than it is in a larger, more corporate organisation, and anyway, I rate Michael and thought his perspective could be interesting.
It was generous of Kate to invite me to do this.
I rate her too!
I always say to anyone (not only children) that the great thing about writing poems or stories or life-writing or even accounts of what you’ve done (so-called ‘recounts’) is that the potential in that moment of writing is discovery. However, if you do too much pre-structuring, pre-note-making, pre-planning, you miss one of the great achievements of the invention of writing which is to enable the writer to do the discovering as you write, in the process of writing. It’s as if the pen (or keyboard) is a probe or a spade (see Seamus Heaney’s poem on this) or a fork turning the texts and experiences over as you produce the words on the page (or as M.A.K. Halliday would put it, ‘as you produce the wording’). In the name of teaching people how to write, we have invented processes in education which prevent, hinder and inhibit these acts of discovery - particularly as the children and students approach the time for testing.
untitled by A Dharma Bum on Flickr.
latest addition to One to One
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1to1/pool/
When the Moon Eclipsed the Dome by Extra Medium on Flickr.
this wonderful photo is the latest edition to the One to One pool
From Eve I learned: how to pack a suitcase – with a dress you could wear to a palace and shoes to run a marathon if required; how to look at pictures – for metaphor, form and truth; how to work – until it was done; how to be kind to your fellow artist – judge the endeavour not the result; and how to be a friend – through thick and thin; and how to laugh – uproariously and often.
Eve Arnold Guardian Obit
Eve Arnold obituary
_________ by Ilina Vicktoria
think this photogrpapher does fabulous work
Books To The Sky
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.
~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] from Birdbooker Report 199, The Guardian
Daniel Southard • photographic art
Available now for presale, Daniel Southard’s first photobook, Beginnings and Endings paired with a print from the book, “The Gleaner.”
The book is a limited hardcover edition, 12”x12”, 125 pages, signed and dated. The print is 11x11”, darkroom created warmtone gelatin silver print, archivally produced, signed and dated in an edition of 25 created exclusively for this presale. This hardcover edition of this book will be limited to 100 copies, exclusively available through the artist.
The reason is a culture that ran as a leitmotif through Osborne’s speech. He is a natural mandarin, versed in the ways of Whitehall. To him recovery should be led from the centre, top-down, and with a focus on the glamorous supply side. Demand is boring, and for nerds. This bias is now rooted in Britain’s governing class. In the 18th century this class took its cue from landowners, in the 19th century from merchants, and in the 20th from bureaucrats. Today the prevailing culture is banking, fixed in the Whitehall revolving door. That is why corporate balance sheets are groaning with unused cash, spilling into giant salaries and bonuses. This money is not in circulation and is therefore untaxed, while the retail economy gasps for cash.
Simon Jenkins, on George Osborne…
