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My online scrapbook of inspiring, shiny things
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for the second straight year, FDU has found that watching no news is more informative than watching Fox News…
Further, on international questions, No News comes in higher than Fox News and MSNBC
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Check out more infographics that compare 2011 YA book covers, from jacket colour to ethnicity of models over katehart.net.
So fascinating. (Witness, for instance, the fact that almost 99% of models featured on the cover of YA novels are caucasian, for instance.)
I suppose the cover of TFiOS features clouds, but only in a fairly abstract way. I really wanted the cover to move away from the conventional wisdom about what sells: white girls’ faces (or headless bodies), water, moons, spooky typeface, hands holding apples, etc.
But I’m really fortunate to work with a publisher who A. cares what I think when it comes to book covers, and B. will take the time/spend the money to make sure that all parties are happy. Most authors don’t have much say in their covers (and, indeed, I didn’t always have much say in mine—there are some, in fact, that I actively dislike).
In semi-related news, I am so, so, so excited to be able to reveal the new cover of Katherines in a couple weeks, which was designed by a nerdfighter.
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There are so many times when I see depictions of NYC nightlife and parties on TV and I’m just like, “This isn’t real. No one is like this. This isn’t the world I inhabit. I wore Toms with a $50 sundress and everyone was nice and the bartender gave me a free glass of wine because I talked to him about Doctor Who for five minutes.”
Then, every once in a while, a friend invites you to a party that’s at a bar in the Meatpacking District, and since it’s his birthday you go. And you wind up at the Standard Bier Garten hating everyone and hating everything and hating the $12 glasses of wine and hating the fact that the second time you went to the ladies’ room, the toilet seat was up for no apparent reason since it’s the fucking ladies’ room and ladies sit on seats to pee.
You see the people around you and think for a brief moment, “Oh, this is where the inspiration for those weird, horrible parties on TV comes from.” Then when you stop to really observe the people around you, you discover that those parties on TV are still completely fictional. These people are behaving in this ridiculous, self-important, clearly insecure manner because that’s how they saw people behaving on TV in their adolescence.
What I’m trying to say is that “art-life, life-art” is an even bigger mindfuck when you add overpriced booze and HBO to the mix.
Wow. Yes. This is my experience as well, but in D.C. (and Seattle, and San Francisco).
Life: It doesn’t have to be that pretentious! Really.
(Source: dirtsquirrels, via bookoisseur)
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Uncovering YA Covers from 2011 by Kate Hart →
Such an important, informative read dissecting what does—and does not—appear on Young Adult book covers.
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Karen Gillan wants to be on Inspector Spacetime
We dropped by the Doctor Who studio in Cardiff just before The Ponds wrapped on their final episodes to talk with Karen Gillan about Community’s (NBC) Doctor Who-spoof “Inspector Spacetime”. It turns out she’s a huge fan of both the sitcom and the show within the sitcom. #AmyMeetsAbed
AH!
(Source: youtube.com, via lyriquediscorde)
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The Original Adam Brody
What would Adam Brody do if he found himself staring down the End Times? “Heroin? It appeals to me more than, like, skydiving. Maybe doing heroin while skydiving?” Or—IDEA TIME!—how about an O.C. reunion movie, à la Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas? “Sure. That’d be funny. Put that.” Oral contract, Brody. Consider this shit notarized.
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May the 4th Be With You
Happy Star Wars Day!
(LEGO Star Wars photos ©Avanaut, whose Flickr page you should really check out!)
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"[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies."
The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity.
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My entire life makes sense now.
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this is on average, right? i’m seriously holding up thousands of people who don’t daydream, i’m sure of it.
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I’m pretty sure that I take up more than half of my waking hours daydreaming. Daydreams, coffee and music is pretty much the mental contents of my days.
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A Princess Conversation
Danielle: There's going to be a princess at the gala I'm going to! Me: If it's Kate Middleton I will faint. Danielle: I think of Greece. Me: A broke princess? At a charity gala! Danielle: I think just the government is broke. The monarchy doesn't count. Me: She's going to be skimming off the top. Keep an eye on her. Me: If Greece goes down, she's princess of nothing! Me: Princess of the German territory of Greekfurt! Danielle: I like to think that if England suddenly had a massive financial crisis, the queen would jump into her pile of money and cackle away at all the poor people. Danielle: so, I imagine that Greece is the same way. Me: Oh she so would. That old bird does what's best for her own. She's a survivor she's gonna make it keep on survivin' [insert queen making sassy snaps here] Danielle: okay, now I am also picturing her doing the Single Ladies dance. Danielle: I can't not picture it now -
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World Map with Place Names Swapped Out for their Original Meanings.
It’s so much more magical this way!
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I have no regrets making this
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