Hi. I started a newsletter called *Animal animal*.
It’s partly for the small kid in your life: animal limericks, facts, drawings--
--and partly for you: books, art, online treasures.
Pop by and read edition 001 here: https://t.co/99Fl6pNIQZ
I hope you’ll sign up!
The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a small insect native to South America, known for its extraordinary, crown-like "helmet" that looks like a miniature set of golden orbs.
It's the penultimate edition of *Animal animal* and we're meeting a scary good one this time. Introduce the kid to hyaenas. Kids love hyaenas:
https://t.co/INTWZbIR2o
A 600-year-old brick spiral hidden inside a former prison, court, and council chamber.
Inside Moot Hall in Maldon, England, this tight spiral staircase curls through a tower thought to have been built around 1420. Once part of the medieval D’Arcy Mansion, the building later became one of the town’s most important civic spaces.
More than six centuries later, the staircase is still its most hypnotic detail.
Dear @TheRustyQuill Delighted to learn you're publishing a descriptive catalogue of Jurgen Leitner's collection. I have a previously uncatalogued edition of Ex Altiora and wondered if you'd be interested in purchasing it for your library. Here are a few images of the book:
Totalmente enamorado de esta propuesta de bandera planetaria. Un circulo azul para representar nuestro planeta, y el resto transparente para que el fondo sea parte de la bandera
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
This is the future of bookmaking. Real artists, real leather, hand-bound, etc.
With fewer and fewer people reading, the print on demand market will shrink. It will give way to the most intentional, the ones who strive to pass down beauty and wisdom to their children.
Quality books check both boxes at once. Expect more and more of this in the years to come, more independent publishers making books worth passing down for generations.