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From: Fictional Character Interactions Over Time | FlowingData.
This is pretty neat. My favorites are 12 Angry Men and Primer. Nothing like a time machine movie to screw with your straight lines, eh?
As I mentioned previously, our library has a Wishing Tree in front of it. Since the leaves are changing, and perhaps our wishes too, I thought I would show off the colorful Wishing Tree again.
Timeline of a Librarian : Poster Presentation @ 2009 PNLA Conference
(sorry for the blurry poster – click here to view it in all it’s glory!)
Had a great visit to Missoula at the beginning of this month for the 2009 PNLA conference. If you want to get a flavor of what went on there, view my colleague Memo’s Flickr set here. I ended up presenting / co-presenting three posters. Yes, three! They were all very well received. Links to the posters and abstracts are below:
Ever Google yourself?
I just did.. and found out I am an “architectural writer”…
I was quoted in an essay titled “An Essay on Night and Day” found in a book called Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Post C ards, Ruins by Michael Martone.
“He told (L1brar1an), an architectural writer, that it wasn’t so much the medium of neon that excited him but the Day-Glo paint he had on hand… (p.151?)”
The quote is from an interview I did of artist Glen House Sr. in the zine Loud Paper, a presumably defunct zine about architecture and art. Basically the interview was a love story about this motel sign:
from Alabama Heritage
In any event, I love being associated with a book that has “ruins” in the title.
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