SIDELONG GLANCES COMPLETE

Origami Tessellations
Wrinkles in time as folded by Origami Joel. Do not miss the masks folded from a single sheet of paper. via


Literature in Transit
Bags and wallets made from books. Of particular note or curiosity, the Onoto Watanna clutch here. Also, Rebound Designs. via


DailyLit
Classic books emailed to you in 5 minute bits. via


Honolulu Weekly Summer Books 2006
What to read in a world of blue.


WriteRoom 1.0b
A small app that creates a full screen writing environment. Black screen, green text, nothing more. Brilliant. Early, early beta. Mac only.


Field-Tested Books
"The Field-Tested Books project is our version of the Heisenberg principle: reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person's experience with both. The writing you'll find here is grounded in that idea. You won't find any book reviews here. You'll find reviews of experience." Coudal Partners ongoing list, updated for Summer 2006.


season of remembrance
Bon dance season begins in Hawai'i. Also Bon Dance Calendar 2006


Michelle Caplan
Mixed media collage. via


"Humuhumunukunukuapua'a? Not at National Spelling Bee"
On spelling Hawaiian in English, or why every street name looks alike.


Gromit cupcake
Because a Gromit in fondant will cheer when all else won't.


cARTalog: a memorial to the card catalog
"cARTalog hopes to find as many creative uses as possible for the salvaged card catalog cards and generate a sense of community among those who love the card catalog." A project of the University of Iowa Libraries. via


The Chatelaine's Blurb Project
"The Chatelaine-Poet has requested blurbs. After receiving said blurbs, she'll write a new book to fit them." Eileen Tabios takes on a new constraint. The opening salvo.


miPOradio: weekend special edition
A podcast installment that features readings by Sawako Nakayasu, Oliver De La Paz, Shin Yu Pai, Linh Dinh, Victoria Chang and Lee Herrick, as well as an interview with Nick Carbo.


Chinese-Japanese Cook Book (1914)
A digitized edition of one of the earliest cookbooks to focus on either cuisine, written by the inimitable Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] and her sister, Sara Bosse. Though their mother was Chinese and their father English, Watanna passed as Japanese for the majority of her writing career. A brief biography of the sisters, including a mention of their bettern known sibling, Sui Sin Far [Edith Maud Eaton].


Paragraph: Workspace for Writers
Has anyone ever had a more wondrous idea? via


Invisible Cities Hotel
A hotel designed after Calvino's Invisible Cities is for sale in Spain. via


Manzanar Free Press, 1942-45
Four online editions of the newspaper published by internees of the Manzanar Relocation Camp.


Top Ten Plots of All Time
Boy meets girl. Boy meets windmill.


The Flavors and Foods of Hawai'i
An Eat Feed podcast featuring interviews with Joan Namkoong and Peter Merriman, two of the influential voices on the Hawai'i food and local culture. Download and listen to the show here. Related: Never go to Kaua'i without stopping at Hamura's Saimin for lunch.


Second Editions
"No books that could change the course of world events are harmed in the production." Bookshelves made of books. via


A Woolf at the Table
Food of the Bloomsbury world in brief.


Humument.com
The official site of A Humument, Tom Phillips's illustrated treatment of the Victorian novel, A Human Document. Do not under any circumstance miss the gallery. via


mel kadel
Drawings. via


The Waribashi Project: San Francisco
An ongoing project in which sculptor Donna Keiko Ozawa draws attention to the mounting environmental damage caused by the casual use of disposable chopsticks [waribashi]. Over the course of one month alone, she has collected, washed and dried 60,000 used pairs from restaurants around SF's Japantown. The project website and its accompanying blog.


Aya Kakeda
Illustration. Related: Letters from a Small Room: contemporary sequential art by women. The show has closed, but there are links to the artists here.


Kikkoman advertising, 1950 – 1969
A happenstance find in a second-hand bookstore. Part 2.


238 Miles
A long day's journey from Iowa. [QuickTime]


Woolf in the World: A Pen and a Press of Her Own
A fantastic online exhibition of photographs, letters, and manuscript pages. [Click on the images to see them in full size.] Related: Leslie Stephen's Photograph Album, which he complied as part of a memoir to mourn his wife and Virginia Woolf's mother, Julia.


Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Think Stephin Merritt - ukulele + keyboard.


The Page of Fu Manchu: The Sax Rohmer Site
"An ongoing effort by scholars and readers around the world to create a definitive Sax Rohmer bibliography, reference and archive." Also: Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril


Nikki S. Lee
Photographic projects. More about the exhibit here.


The Somerville Gates
"These gates were unveiled in a ceremony that was not attended by Joseph Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, on February 14, 2005." via


Dessine-moi un mouton
The Little Prince as opera.


“To my parents, Ayn Rand and God”
An explanation of the serial comma. via Converse: A reason not to be a comma pedant.


Mona in the Promised Land
An NYT profile of Rachel Factor, a Japanese American actress who converted to Orthodox Judaism.


Tadahiro Uesugi
Illustration


Christo's Agent Orange
The signification of color as it shifts over a twenty-five year's time.


Tomoyo Ihaya
Mixed media works.


Iowa Dispatches, Part 1
An insidery peek into the search for the new head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.


Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Auspicious foods with which to begin the lunar new year. via. Related: a recipe for lo han jai, a traditional new year's food in Hawai'i, here.


On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl
A story by Haruki Murakami. Illustrated by Steph Tai. via


Eric Feng
Illustration. Be sure not to miss the Inside Out animations. via


Reversing Vandalism
In 2001, the San Francisco Public Library discovered a rash of vandalized books. Instead of destroying them, the Library asked the community to turn them into art. via


The Five Stages of Eagles Grief
A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago mourns.


Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
An extensive online collection of 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks held by the Michigan State University Library. via


oneword
one word. sixty seconds. go. via


Call for Submissions: Bamboo Ridge
Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts has an open call out for its next issue. Deadline extended until February 14, 2005. Submission Guidelines


Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Photographs of Japan taken from the 1860s to the 1890s. via


Caratulas de Tod Browning
Movie posters of the 1920s & 30s.


Gonzo Stunt Game
I wasn't going to post this. "Cute, but juvenile," I thought. Then I played it all morning. via


Japanese Toy and Candy Design
via


Margaret Atwood: Novelist, Poet, Goalie
"If the puck carrier's really putting lumber on it, then Mama can get nasty." A direct link to the video should be here at least a little while. via scribblingwoman


Best Press Release Ever
"Snowed Out by the Blizzard of 2005, Orchestra and Conductor Benjamin Zander Reschedule Concert for Head-to-Head Showdown with the Pats and Eagles." Perfect save for the prediction that the Patriots will "shellac" the Eagles....


Wonsook Kim
Paintings.


Hurrah!
Persistence of Vision is back.


Kiddie Records, Week 05
It's Gerald McBoing-Boing week.


The Information Machine
A 1958 animated short that introduces the computer to visitors to the Brussels World's Fair. Directed by Charles and Ray Eames, music by Elmer Bernstein. via


The Babu dreams of a self-editing library
"'Babu,' I sez, 'you may do many things in Bombay. You may get onto the wrong trains (did that). You may fall out of a taxi in Bandra (ditto). You may even dance on tables (on the to-do list) singing obscene Bengali songs (did that already). But promise me you will not buy more books.'"


A Clockwork Orange Redux
Not for the squeamish. A video that demonstrates how to use Eye Talk, a Japanese product that claims to temporarily eliminate the epicanthic fold of the Asian eye by gluing the lid together. Ladies: If it involves glue, a pickle fork, and your eye, it's not worth it. Popgadget has an image that hints at the horror.


A Rare Glimpse of Mare Orientale
Glimpse this week the dark side of the moon. via


Ancient Ruins: Abandoned Naples
Margaret Stratton, photography. Forgotten cloisters, catacombs.


Meenakshi's Modular Mania
Origami dodecahedra, sonobe, and intersecting planes. via


buffyology
"Every Buffy character, episode, cast member, writer and director and every word of every show, in a searchable database." via


Literati Lip Balm
In 4 vegan flavors: ShakeSperamint, PoeMegranate, Alcott Apricot, and Brontë Berry. via


Muppets Overtime
Moody Weimar expressionism. With muppets. via


The Glenn Gould Archive
Archival tapes, home recordings, and test tapes. via


The Kama Sutra of Reading
"Reading is Sexy."


Jack Kerouac: On the Road
The original scroll typescript of On the Road will be on display at the University of Iowa Museum, January 19th-March 13, 2005. Also: a schedule of related exhibition talks.


The First Annual TMN Tournament of Books
March Madness for the bookishly inclined. The initial pairings intrigue: The Plot Against America squares off against The Bad Boy's Wife, Cloud Atlas against The Finishing School. Download your own PDF brackets to follow along here. via


My Trip to Disneyland with Eugene Ionesco
From Michael Dare's Emulsional Problems. via


In the Station: An Encounter with Light and Time
Photographs at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia circa January, 1978. Related: The Frank Furness Collection. via


Yoko Ikeno
Illustration. via


Falling for Wonderfalls
A marathon screening of all thirteen episodes of the too short-lived series. Saturday and Sunday, January 29 and 30, 2005, at 12:30 p.m. The Museum of Television & Radio, NYC. The DVD will be released in the US Feb 1st.


100 Years of Illustration and Design
A new blog maintained by Paul Giambarba. More about the motivation for the blog and its sensibility in the first post found here. One of the few blogs I know where "curated" might apply. The image selection alone is sumptuous. via


A man in a pickle jumps into the brine.
The purveyor of Rick's Picks profiled in the New York Times. Homestyle pickles with attitude.


the CONVERSATION
Five esteemed film bloggers take on the Golden Globes.


Arts hui may lose home.
Not The Barnes Foundation saga quite yet, but the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center on Maui may need to move after the sale of the Kaluanui estate to Mainland investors.


And as she dipped into the blue paint, she dipped too into the past there.
Paintings by Suzanne Bellamy in response to the novels of Virginia Woolf. [Link is to her triptych, To the Lighthouse.] See also her series "Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein". via


Poetry: The Language People Speak
It's fashionable to tally the number of fiction reviews the NYT publishes each week and to find it lacking, but it's heartening to see a thoughtful review on poetry, even of the prosaic kind.


Molecule Jewelry
Pendants and rings. "Chemically accurate representations of substances that affect mood." Gorgeous. via


The Guy Behind "Secret Asian Man"
An interview with Tak Toyoshima. Also, the official Secret Asian Man homepage and temporary archive.


A rare opportunity for anyone interested in expermiental writing.
Lisa Jarnot is currently looking for private writing/poetry students to work with. You can read excerpts from her chapbook, "Sea Lyrics," here.


WordCount
"An artistic experiment in the way we use language" which generates a list of words in order of their frequency of use in English and presents them by relative size. Favorite pull so far: beamish postmodernist didactic refuted [27616-9].


Peter Rabbit in Hieroglyphics
The report @ BBC News. via


Put-downs saved for posterity
An article in the Guardian that suggests the current editors of the Dictionary of National Biography are maintaining the tradition of frank assessment begun by Virginia Woolf's father. Related: Leslie Stephen and the new DNB.


The only language realted reason I wish I were at the MLA this year.
PhillySound announces an off-site reading with a tour de force gathering of experimental poets, many Philadelphia connected. Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 8:30-10:30 at the Highwire Gallery, 1315 Cherry St, Philadelphia. Free and open to all.


Have You Eaten Yet?: The Chinese Restaurant in America
An exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in New York. There might also be a few days left to see Chop Suey which documents the disappearance of the chop suey house. via


Chrismukkah or Festivus?
The pros and cons weighed. Related from the comments: Klezmer Nutcracker.


It's a Wonderful Life in 30 Seconds
Re-enacted by Bunnies. via


Kiddie Records Weekly: Classics from the Golden Age
The original 78s encoded as MP3s. One a week throughout 2005. Week 5 will feature Gerald McBoing-Boing, Week 12 Bugs Bunny in Storyland [scroll to the middle of the page]. via


Eddie Would Go.
The call is out for the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational--something that has happened only 6 times in the past 19 years. The surf contest requires a 20 ft wave height minimum to even begin. Prediction for Wed, Dec 15th is for 30-50 ft wave faces with a 2.5 ft high tide. Update: The Eddie is on.


Andrea Dezso: New York Dreams (Carousel Book)
"One-of-a-kind artist's pop-up book on Lana 100% cotton watercolor paper." Found via popgadget which also recommends Dennis Yuen's blog, CaiLun, dedicated to bookbinding and bookmaking.


On yellowface and what could have been
Margaret Cho on her turn in an unproduced play based on the life of Anna May Wong. Related: The ALA's Margaret Cho READ campaign poster.


Plans for a Ramen Theme Park in Nagoya
Ramen = Pinot Noir, 2005. NYT article on the growing popularity of ramen shops in New York here and the Shinyokohama Raumen Museum.


Ming of the Periplum: Avant-Garde mapping
"Presses and archives of innovative writing online and not." via


The Notorious MSG
Original Chinatown Badboys. Pop Life rates the video "Straight out of Canton" a must see, but can't decide "if [it's] is offensively brilliant or brilliantly offensive or neither." Click on "Media" then "Video" to view. Not for the rap adverse.


1 Tsp. of Prose, Recipes to Taste
On the relationship between good cookbooks and writing.


The Original Sushi Pillow
Tekkamaki neck roll, anyone? via


Pictures from Roald Dahl's Photo Archive
To be auctioned 13 Dec.


Hong Kong Nocturne
Before there was chopsocky or Wong Kar-wai, there were the Shaw Brothers, apparently. 1960s movie musical, HK style. More reviews of Shaw Brothers films here.


Asian American Sequential Artists Resource Guide
A guide to Asian American comic strips and comic books. Run by James Mar. via


stream of consciousness
An interactive poetic garden. More about it here. via


The Closing of WordsWorth Books
30 days later, a post mortem. via


The Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize
"This annual prize is an opportunity for both Kundiman and Manoa to support and spotlight the talent of an emerging Asian American poet, a new voice in the landscape of Asian American expression and power." Deadline: Dec 15th.


Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker
"An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries." From The Birmigham News.


Rappers I Thought Were Asian
A list. via


Birnbaum v. Lan Samantha Chang
An interview at The Morning News.


The Velveteen Rabbit
with illustrations. via


Fortunes for the Literary
"Why do you have to be a non-conformist like everybody else?" --James Thurber. via


re: Verses
Open mike night at The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu. Featured poets for the kick-off event include Joy Harjo, the Hawai’i Slam Team, Juliet Kono, Jesse Lipman, Gary Pak, Kathryn Takara, and Richard Hamasaki. The last Tuesday of every month starting Nov 30. 8-10pm.


Cross-cultrual Camera: How Photography Bridged East and West
Photography in late-nineteenth century Japan.


Literary Friendships
Hosted by Garrison Keillor beginning Jan 18, 2005. Minnesota Public Radio. via


Travels in the Floating World
An excerpt from Peter Carey's latest, Wrong About Japan.


Farewell Favorites: Japantown Bowl
Closed 20 Sept 2000. Among the people and places missed in SF. via


Käthe Kollwitz
An online gallery of sketches, studies, and portraits.


Abelardo Morell
Camera Obscura. Also here.


Kitabkhana's Curry Cover Special
The Babu searches so you don't have to.


Views of Old Philadelphia
Watercolors by Benjamin R. Evans, mid- to late-eighteen hundreds.


Beard Papa's Cream Puffs in Honolulu
'til Nov 28th.


Erika Yamashiro
Paintings. via


The Fiction of the Demise of the Women's Review of Books
Lynn Walterick reflects and clarifies the myths.


Moriyama Daido
Photography. via


Hack your way out of writer's block
Though talking to a monkey does not usually embolden me to write. Believe me. I've tried. Related: moleskine hacks.


Google Scholar
For those on speaking terms with the academy.


Building the Gold Mountain: Philadelphia's Chinatown
via


Slideshow of flood damage
Hamilton Library, UH Mānoa. October 30, 2004. More photos of damage here.


Photos of Chris Cobb's "There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World"
The art installation that reorganized the shelves of Adobe Bookshop by color. Also here. via · Update: Heather Champ's flickr stream and Derek Powazek's photos @ ephemera.org. The definitive sets.


Scratch that one off the Christmas list
as the only reason to buy the Live Aid 4 disc DVD was to dance like a wave on the ocean romanced. And now word comes from Philly based A List of Things Thrown... that The Hooters aren't even included.


Robert's Snow for Cancer's Cure
An online auction of snowflakes painted by children's book illustrators. 100% of the auction's proceeds will go to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/The Jimmy Fund. November 1-December 12th. via


The Chinese in California
From the Library of Congress American Memory project. via


Seonna Hong
Paintings and animation. via


The OEDILF
The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. You can contribute your metric definitions as well. via


Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory poster
An initial sighting. via


The DNA of Literature
The Paris Review posts the first installment from its interview archive. Highlights include William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, and Dorothy Parker. via everyone


Play the game. You're white.
And my first thought was, "Thanks. But, no." Seems it's an AI chess game or something. Admonition and link intoned by Coudal.


Beyond Manzanar
A 3D interactive virtual reality installation by Tamiko Thiel and Zara Houshmand. via


Vintage eyeglass frames
For those days when looking like a hipster writer is the same as writing. via


"Moving Islands" 6th Fall Writer's Festival: A Celebration of Oceanic and Caribbean Literature
November 8-12 @ the University of Hawaii Mānoa. Participating writers include Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Witi Ihimaera, and Albert Wendt.


A review of Corridor
India's first graphic novel. via. Cloak Room claims the status of first Indian SMS novel. It's also published here. via


"I Suck at Math"
blacklava. best. t-shirts. via


The Buggles-Ballard Connection
Fact or hallucination? The London News Review wants to know.


Radicchio Killed the Radio Star
"There just aren’t enough songs about food." Ideas sought.


Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies
From Amy to Zillah, beginning to ends. via

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