Book description from Welcome Books:
In the forty years since the first Magnavox Odyssey pixel winked on in 1972, the home video game industry has undergone a mind-blowing evolution.
The range is wildly out of whack: Serious art by established pros rubs shoulders with amateur output, student work, and sentimental exercises. Theres humor, not all of it intentional.
Anyone can claim a place in this freewheeling showcase. Theres a fee and a few rules: Submissions have to fit the available exhibition space, and outright eroticism is discouraged. The school is a family affair.
Much like last years Open, the 2012 show is big, with 183 works. Its hung salon-style (stacked in rows) in the gallery proper and spilling into the main corridor. Regular paintings (oil/acrylic on canvas) predominate. Full Article…
Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted Mosby in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, will detail his journey from Bexley to Hollywood in his upcoming memoir, One Big Blissful Thing.
The book also will make an unexpected stop in Brazil, where Radnor apparently hung out with a shaman in 2007 and helped himself to some ayahuasca, an indigenous plant medicine known for its hallucinogenic properties.
From One Big Blissful Thing‘s Amazon page:
“The story of one man’s unlikely spiritual awakening—this is Eat, Pray, Love for those who would rather be reading McSweeney’s . Josh
There’s a Zelda visual guide book coming soon to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game series. The Legend of Zelda was released on 21 February 1986.
The Japanese title is ハイラル・ヒストリア ゼルダの伝説大全: 任天堂公式ガイドブック. The book is going to be 274 pages.
There are more
Everybody knows at least one — a pretentious foodie who insists on froufrou ingredients, laborious techniques and over-the-top dishes.
Well, this year they’re out of luck. Because 2011 was a year when cookbooks — even those by high-end and celebrity chefs — went all homey and nostalgic. Which is good news for those of us who don’t want to garnish a Wednesday night dinner with hand-harvested truffle-salmon roe foam.
There were meatball books, tomes of rustic dishes, and reminiscences on cooking your way back to childhood. The result? There are plenty of choices for those of us who must blend the joy of cooking with the sometimes crushing need to feed.
And that will make gift shopping for the food lovers in your life much easier. Here are
A is for Alan Aurelia, founder of the busy Richmond County Orchestra and Riverside Opera Co.
B is for Bruised Ego (shelled, whole), a foodstuff in the wittily bogus Jeffu Market art installation at SHOW Gallery, St. George
C is for collage, perfected by West Brighton artist Andrea Phillips at the Staten Island Museum
D is for Tashi Dhargyal, whose transcendent Tibetan paintings graced the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
E is for Eyes on Infinity, one of many interesting guests tapped by Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble.
F is for the folk tale The Bamboo Cutter, turned into a play with music by Wafoo, the Japanese-American jazzers.
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