And I hope they paid Oscar Isaac well for getting hit in the face so many times!
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Pretty pop-ups!
I love and have a small collection of pop-up books including a huge Game of Thrones map. These pop-up art pieces by Peter Dahmen are just breathtaking. Have a look yourself.
For more on the artist here is a featured video:
and even a link to tutorials!
The Pop-Up Book ▶ https://amzn.to/2IM7odi
Free Tutorials by Peter Dahem ▶ http://bit.ly/peter-dahmen-tutorials
What if Wes Anderson made S’mores? A little fun for your Monday : )
#FoodFilms reimagines recipe videos in the style of famous directors.
The others in the series:
What if Tarantino made Spaghetti & Meatballs?
What if Michael Bay made Waffles?
What if Alfonso Cuaron made pancakes?
Quick Links: 10 Things I Know About You and Your Books
Quick links, bringing you great articles on writing from all over the web.
Jenny Hansen knows 10 things about you, and I have to admit she pretty much nailed me. After reading Tolkien as a child, I spent many a day searching for Ents in the forest behind my house. Head on over to Writers In The Storm and see how many items fit you.
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10 Things I Know About You and Your Books
From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books – for story, for Craft, for new worlds and new ideas.
We have To Be Read piles (TBR for short) that are taller than small children. Our favorite authors and characters become our friends.
I don’t know if we become students of the written word because we love to read or if we read because we were born to love the written word. All that chicken and egg Zen is well beyond me.
I just flat out love books and every writer I know does too. You might even describe us as “obsessed with the printed word.” It takes a lot of love to go through what we must do to yank our stories from our hearts onto the page.
If you are a writer, there are things that I know about you and your books:
1. I know you get uncomfortable when you are “bookless.”
If you are stuck somewhere without a book, you will begin reading any words available – shampoo bottles, food labels, billboard signs. Whatever. Books and magazines are preferred, but in a pinch, any words will smooth your soul. (Do you keep a bag of books in your car trunk like I do?)
Just For Fun – Generate your own random fantasy map
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break, especially today.
Want to escape into your own fantasy world? Need some inspiration for NaNoWriMo? Check out this cool fantasy map generator at Martin O’Leary‘s site!
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Generating fantasy maps
Inspiration
I wanted to make maps that look like something you’d find at the back of one of the cheap paperback fantasy novels of my youth. I always had a fascination with these imagined worlds, which were often much more interesting than whatever luke-warm sub-Tolkien tale they were attached to.
At the same time, I wanted to play with terrain generation with a physical basis. There are loads of articles on the internet which describe terrain generation, and they almost all use some variation on a fractal noise approach, either directly (by adding layers of noise functions), or indirectly (e.g. through midpoint displacement). These methods produce lots of fine detail, but the large-scale structure always looks a bit off. Features are attached in random ways, with no thought to the processes which form landscapes. I wanted to try something a little bit different.
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Just For Fun: Ingenious Recycled Brooches of Classic Books
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break
What a clever idea these are! I shall have to ask the hubby for one for Christmas! Culture N Lifestyle
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Fun – Gotta Pun ‘Em All: The Classics as Pokemon
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break
Do you Pokemon or know someone who does? Then you will totally enjoy these classic story titles re-imagined as Pokemon titles. Got to collect them all!
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Gotta Pun ‘Em All: The Classics as Pokemon
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Pokemon Go is going wild, y’all. It’s a free smartphone app that dropped on July 6 and uses your GPS to show you the Pokemon that are always around you in the real world (Okay, not really. It’s just a game, people).
When you’re walking around, open the app and you’ll find a Charmander in your kitchen, or a Shellder in your bedroom, or a Jigglypuff in your office at work. Your favorite coffeeshops are turned into Pokestops, your grocery stores are turned into gyms. It’s taking over the world.
And you better believe we Poke-punned a bunch of classics for ya. Sure, there are the obvious ones — Harry Potter and the Pokeball, Pokemon Farm — but… Just, here. We gotta Catch-22 ’em all.
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For Fun – Bookworm Rug
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break
You can get this pattern as a bookrun, pillows, and more. Even leggings! Pretty cool.
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For Fun – Brush up on your typing skills
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break
Unless you are using a pen and paper, (more power to you!) you are using a qwerty keyboard. For a little Friday fun, why not brush up on your typing skills with a typing game. It is like the old video game Galaga, you have to type the letters to shoot them out of the sky before they land on you. It gets harder.
Helpful hint, watch out for the big words, they can spawn babies! Also it does play music but when you start a game, in the upper top left corner is a little faint button that loads the options, and you can turn the volume off there. What is your best high score? zty.pe
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Book Bag From Think Geek – On sale now
Full disclosure, I have no affiliate with them, just think this is cool and love the site and wanted to share with you all. It’s on sale too!
Just for fun: 12 Things Every Book-Lover Has Said To Their Friends
Just for fun – because everyone deserves a break
I had to laugh when I saw this, because I had just said the first three examples to my niece. Enjoy Charlotte Ahlin at Bustle – 12 Things Every Book-Lover Has Said To Their Friends. How guilty are you or is she missing any?
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12 Things Every Book-Lover Has Said To Their Friends
Deals! Remains of the Day: Scribd Offering Unlimited Audiobooks Over the Summer
Deals – Cool deals or offers you might be interested in
I am sharing this in place of today’s Quick Link because I don’t want you to miss out. Full disclosure, I don’t make a penny off of any of this. I have friends who are very much into audiobooks and this seems like a great way to relax this summer, along with the other offers in the Lifehacker post
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From now until the end of September, Scribd is offering unlimited access to over 5,000 audiobooks to subscribers. Sounds like a good way to pass the time while the summer heat keeps us languid.
- A Scribd subscription costs $8.99 and normally comes with three books and one audio book per month, so the unlimited book buffet until September 30th is a nice perk. There’s also a free two week trial; it’s a nice promotion if you find yourself with a lot of free time and eager ears this summer. [Scribd]
- In other news, Netflix has a new tool for making a movie playlist called Flixtape. It’s a fun idea with half-baked execution; you can only add six titles, and you can’t include individual episodes from shows. A mixtape with your favorite episodes would be a fun to share! But this is more like finding a cardboard box full of discarded VHS tapes on the sidewalk. [TechCrunch]
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