Web Collection Of Andy Smithyman
Luke Ives Pontifell carries a Blackberry. He owns an iPad and writes a blog. He harbours no aversion to the bytes and tweets that whirl through the modern world. He has also devoted his life to the production of handcrafted books that will be around long after he’s gone.
When everything is disposable, it’s a powerful way of communicating ideas - of saying, this is something that matters - this is something that you should keep and save.
Perfect summation.
Thornwillow Press have their own series of libraries: a perfect match up to their approach to literature.
I love this detail of craftsmanship.
Thornwillow Press is a small publisher that produces finely crafted, handmade, limited-edition books. Letterpress printers work on 24 antique and modern printing presses - the oldest press dating back to the 1800’s, and the bindery still uses historic binding equipment.
Great opening scene and stunning monologue - crafted by a writer who inspires me to push my own boundaries of articulation.
Sherlock Holmes: The House of Silk
Intriguing quote that highlights the beauty of our interpretation.
Aaron Sorkin (Toby Ziegler: West Wing)
Always makes me smile. I couldn’t have said it better than myself.
You met God on meadow and moorland; you met Him in the homes of the people. God seemed to be everywhere… not an evangelist, not a special effort. Not anything at all based upon human endeavour, but an awareness of God that gripped the whole community so much so that worked stopped.
(Duncan Campbell describing the 1949 Hebrides Revival)
It’s a quote that still provokes me to this day. Campbell knew how to articulate a moment in a way that never provided a “full stop” to a description: inviting the reader on further trails of daring imagination.
What a great idea - a map made out of geotagged tweets.
A inspiring talk by Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) that I continual come back to.It never ceases to amaze me the power that resides within the mind when it embraces creative obsession.
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn.
Plays wasted words, proves to warn.
That he not busy being born is busy dying.
(Bob Dylan: It’s Alright Ma)
Being born… a continual process.
The wheel turns, nothing is ever new.
(Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal In Belgravia)
Sometimes it is good to stop and consider that the ‘new’ always has a link into the ‘past’. It not only helps with battling with the whole self-importance issue, but more important, honours the footprints we find our feet already within.
I have often found that the most immaterial aspect of a case can be at the same time its most significant.
(Sherlock Holmes: The House of Silk)
That’s my main message, really. Don’t think that the things around you don’t count, because they do.
(Jarvis Cocker: Guardian 17/10/11)
Lesson # The power of the insignificant.
Lesson # Never underestimate the mundane.
The unfinished picture would so like to jump off the easel and have a look at itself.
(C.S. Lewis: Letters To Malcolm)
It has always struck me that any interpretation of a series of events isn’t possible until all the evidence says otherwise and even then one should be wary before jumping to a conclusion.
(Sherlock Holmes: The House of Silk.)
Wise words from the old man.
