Graham Holliday's Blog, page 14
October 21, 2014
skyline
0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner Fineliner pen, on Moleskine plain paper notebook.
October 20, 2014
sitar city
Looking out over Dakar while listening to a recording of Annapurna Devi & Ravi Shankar from the 1950s. Annapurna Devi, born Roshanara Khan) on 23 April 1927, is an Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player of Hindustani Classical Music. She is the daughter and disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of Maihar gharana, and was married […]
October 17, 2014
nodding in agreement
I’d never heard of Wendy MacNaughton before I listened to her interview on the excellent Longform podcast today. She’s an “artist, illustrator and graphic journalist”. The way she describes how she works and how she gets work is very similar to how things have worked out for myself; she blogged, people noticed, she got work. […]
October 16, 2014
the second pass
The second editing pass, that’s the one before the final editing pass, officially starts on October 23. I got a head start today by adding all my first editing pass edits and more recent edits to the galley, pictured above. That way I can effectively start the second editing pass, the one before the final […]
October 10, 2014
how to do it
Douglas Hart, the original bass player with The Jesus and Mary Chain and now a film maker, released a 7″ single in June, 2013. I had no idea. It’s pretty good. Listen to it below. It was a very limited release. The point of this blog post is just to mention how he packaged the […]
it’s here
The book was designed by Allison Saltzman, Sara Wood and Suet Yee Chong.
October 9, 2014
scenes from rwanda
One day, I will sort through the 1000’s of images I took in Rwanda and do something with them.
whither the street?
By the sounds of this excellent article in The Guardian – Has Britain’s street food revolution run out of road? – the ‘British street food scene’ should more accurately be described as ‘quality assured food served in designated car parks at regulated times’. It sounds about as daring and vital as I imagine a cover […]
October 7, 2014
eating việt nam galley
Ryan, my editor at Ecco, instagrammed a picture of the ‘galley’ of my book on her desk in NYC. And, if you don’t know what a galley is, it’s a “pre-first edition”, A pre-first edition is any limited run copy of a book printed before the first standard edition is published. These include advance(d) reader […]
September 16, 2014
the tofu makers of Xuân Đỉnh
This is one half of the husband and wife team who make tofu on Đường Xuân Đỉnh market to the north of central Hà Nội, Việt Nam. They’ve produced tofu here for 14 years. First, the soy beans are soaked and washed, then ground, filtered and boiled. Yeast is added. The mixture is covered for […]
