Midori Snyder's Blog, page 57

Off For A Few Days

Taking a road trip for a few days so I most likely won't be back on the blog until Monday. So I leave you with this peculiar and strangely entrancing frog-finger game. I suppose we make toes into piggies, why...

What Is Your Library Saying About Fairy Tales?

I am happy to post up more "What is Your Library Saying?" images of friends' book titles, re-arranged to offer strange and wonderful literary moments. Today's offerings are two, fairy tale themed images from Bri Saussy, owner of Milagro Roots,...

Past Lives Can Be Scary and Entertaining.

How can I resist passing this along on the internet? A huge fan of Game of Thrones, it was pretty astonishing to see this bit of exceptional casting of Joffrey Baratheon as a Caligula-look-a-like. Or perhaps it was Caligula channeling...

Visual Nutrition: What Does a Rennaisance Man Wear?

Even a fantasy set in a historical time period requires research -- and as I am working through Zizola's novel (the sequel to The Innamorati) I am delighted to come across research like this -- which just provides so much...

What Is Your Library Saying? Part III

Continuing with our own version of the Sorted Books Projects here at the Labyrinth, I was delighted by the offerings from historical fiction author Tinney Sue Heath. Tinney's novel A Thing Done -- a wonderful medieval bit of intrigue and...

Donald Hall: One Road

(Photos by Peter Zelei/istockphoto and John Robert Shepard) This happened across my internet-desk this morning and I stopped everything to read it. The poet Donald Hall wrote a beautiful and very poignant essay "One Road" about a journey he took...

Bitcoin....Are You In?

Thinking about buying some of these, just out of curiosity. It feels so damn science-fictiony or magic. This video about Bitcoin raised my eyebrows -- especially at the description of "The Dark Web" and "The Silk Road" where illegal transactions...

What Is Your Library Saying? Part II

Awhile back, I posted about the "Sorted Book Project" -- where visual artist Nina Katchadourian used the titles printed on the spines of books to create clever literary moments with the unexpected arrangements of those titles. So I asked friends...

Ukiyo-e Heroes by Jed Henry and Dave Bull: Another Kickstarter Success Story

I love this project by illustrator Jed Henry to take contemporary, iconic video game figures and render them in the traditional Ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints. They are beautiful -- combing the exquisite technique of Japanese print making and modern...

The Monkey Girl: Marriage and Transformative Love

Yesterday I pulled up my essay of the Swan Maiden narratives -- which presents a rather dour view of marriage, when coercion rather than love creates the bonds of matrimony. So today, I offer The Monkey Girl, an essay first...