Our friend Emma sent us a postcard recently thanking us for gift cards we gave her. The postcard is actually a promotion for a movie called Kabluey that she and her mother found at a Blockbuster going-out-of-business sale and repurposed as a postcard.
In case I wasn’t familiar with the antiquated brick-and-mortar concept that was Blockbuster, Emma helpfully informed me that it’s “like Netflix but a store.”
Couldn’t help but laugh …
Cody Brown argues on TechCrunch that books shouldn’t be mere shovelware on the iPad. Think about them as apps. Not lifeless, flat PDFs.
To quote Brown:
“If you, as an author, see the iPad as a place to ‘publish’ your next book, you are completely missing the point. What do you think would have happened if George Orwell had the iPad? Do you think he would have written for print then copy and pasted his story into the iBookstore? If this didn’t work out well, do you think he would have complained that there aren’t any serious-readers anymore? No. He would have looked at the medium, then blown our minds.”
OK, authors. Blow my mind.
Don Dudenbostel’s portrait of Steve Turner, who raises bear hounds and gamecocks in Cocke County, Tennessee. The photo is part of Dudenbostel and Tom Jester’s Vanishing Appalachia exhibit at the East Tennessee Historical Society. “The constant crowing of gamecocks and baying of hounds fill the air day and night, but it is a sound that reminds Turner he’s home — and living life on his Cocke County farm just the way he wants it,” Jester writes in the book that was produced for the exhibit.
Here’s an audio file that Tom made of Steve Turner talking about his life:
Steve Turner’s Life, wav audio file, 36.6mb
(All info on this page is reproduced with Jester and Dudenbostel’s permission.)