Graham Holliday's Blog, page 10
January 15, 2015
the difficult second album
I’m writing another book. It’s about Korea. Specifically, it’s about regional Korean food, the people who cook it and where they cook it. I have a plan of where I want to go, what I want to write about, and a long list of contacts whom I’d like to talk to. That is the skeleton. […]
January 13, 2015
the future leaks out
The William Burroughs method of writing a book. The fold in method: “A page of text – my own or some one else’s – is folded down the middle and placed on another page. The composite text is then read across half one text and half the other. The fold in method extends to writing […]
January 9, 2015
like a book
This is a rather excellent piece by Jemima Kiss. If an optimum reading experience were the priority, how different would Facebook feel? Curiously, it would probably feel like a book. link Yes. Because a printed, paper book is the optimum reading experience. A screen is not. Neither is a SnapFaceInstaTwit. For anyone who wants to […]
January 7, 2015
1984
The 1949 first edition cover of George Orwell’s 1984. Out of all of the covers since 1949, this Spanish edition from 1983 is my favourite. However, in today’s era of redaction and surveillance, the 2013 design is the most intriguing. This brilliant, censorial approach to Orwell’s dystopian classic – referencing the rewriting of history carried […]
January 5, 2015
pelicans
Pelicans flying in Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Debi, northern Senegal.
December 23, 2014
the orientar
Sketched with a 0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner Fineliner pen on Moleskine notebook paper.
December 19, 2014
rough
A typical scene in Dakar, Senegal. Sketched with a 0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner Fineliner pen on Moleskine notebook paper.
December 16, 2014
kipple
I started this sketch of Dakar ten days ago. I put in about an hour or two per day. I’m still finishing the details. It’s a present. It’ll be done by Christmas. Dakar and kipple is the vague idea. Plenty of kipple in Dakar. Sketched with a 0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner […]
voices from another star
A Day In The Afterlife – this is a very good BBC 2 Arena documentary on the life and work of Philip K. Dick. He wrote 42 novels. One of the interviewees calls his work “predictive science-fiction”, “He’s one of the few writers who has the satisfaction of having got it right, in a complicated […]
