Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Friday 7 June 2013

Perfect for culture buffs who love mixing reel worlds from screen and print with reality: a catalog that charts, at a glance, 49 drinks from great works of film and literature. Hannibal Lector’s Chianti makes it to the list of course, and Fredo Corleone’s Banana Daiquiri is something we can’t refuse.

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Murakami releases his new book at midnight in Tokyo

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By Nathaniel G. Janowitz in New Events on Friday 12 April 2013

Literary rock-star, Haruki Murakami, released his new book hours ago in a a midnight opening in Tokyo. Only printed in Japanese, the title translates roughly to “Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of his Pilgrimage”. For the legions of Murakami devotees who failed to bone up on our Japanese prior to this release, we eagerly [...]

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From the LAEM Store: The-Affair’s The Mighty Dub Print

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By Alison Shepard in New Products on Friday 15 March 2013

The beauty of everything from The-Affair, a London-based design studio with a penchant for literary themes, is their ability to completely transform words (even those books we all hated in school!) into incredible graphics. Take the Mighty Dub print. Admittedly at first – and second and third – glance, this looks like your standard music [...]

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Shakespeare Insults heal any wound

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By Annie Churdar in New Products on Wednesday 6 March 2013

What better way to heal a physical wound than with a verbally inflicted wound? You can buy a box of  these fantastic Shakespeare insult band-aids for only 15 dollars. They have the amazing ability to  distract you from your dark, cloudy mood after getting a scrape. ‘Go thou and fill another room in Hell’. There now, don’t [...]

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1Story: a locative literature project by Melbourne’s Matt Blackwood

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By Matt Blackwood in New Art on Sunday 3 March 2013

I’ve been interested (some would say obsessed) in Locative Literature for a while now. Experiencing a story in the location where the story is set gives audiences that extra layer of immersion. So what could be better than combining this form of literature into a giant QR code made from recycled keyboard keys, and then [...]

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Literary puns by Timothy Leo Taranto

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By Low Lai Chow in New Illustration on Tuesday 22 January 2013

Illustrator Timothy Leo Taranto has put a hilarious pun spin to literature greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Vonnugget, The Brontesaurus Sisters, Bob Dillon and Tennissee. Must say, the one of Ernest Lemmingway is quite spot-on.

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Famous meals taken from famous literature texts

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By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Thursday 26 July 2012

Lit geeks who love their food will be delighted to know that graphic designer Dinah Fried has gone ahead to reenact famous meals from famous literature texts and show us just how yummy they are with a series of artfully composed shots. Meals from classic reads like The Catcher in the Rye, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist and Moby Dick make an appearance as well as from contemporary bestseller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Nice. 

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Classic literary novels starring you

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By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Tuesday 1 May 2012

If you are slightly depressed that your life is not quite the stuff of great literature, wipe these tears away now. We’ve found this UK company that hawks personalised novels where you can rename story characters after you. No better time than now to stage your grand classic novel debut as Cheshire Cathy in the [...]

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The Juvenilia: an art and literature blog

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By Eve Lesser in Cool Websites on Tuesday 1 November 2011

The Juvenilia is an art and literature blog that aims to capture, in their words, ‘the strange beauty that forms when worldly perspectives come together’. Almost every contributor is from a different country, with content that ranges from stunning nature photography and cheerfully bizarre artwork, to philosophical musings and trilingual poetry.

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The Shagi’s Fantasie Impromptu project

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By Kiron Heriot-Darragh in New Events on Sunday 18 May 2008

Caught yourself on a how-the-hell-did-I-even-get-here train of thought lately? Ukrainian literary experimentalist Alex Shagi is calling out for visual artists across the world to ride that train to the end of the line.

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