Sunday, December 04, 2011

Venetian Slime Woman

I wrote a sci-fi novel about a strange group of people who grow from mold and can't die except after the birth of their grandchild. And the unnamed government agency that ones to dissect one - "for research purposes" - of course, and how a daring EPA water specialist saves, protects, and falls in love with one.

Then I printed it out and bound it up to create three copies (one has been given away already) of a unique book that is also fun to read.

"The Venetian Slime Woman: A Biological Love Story" is available at Smashwords.com and, handbound, from me.

Email me at Tedorigawabookmakers.bookmakers@gmail.com if you would like to purchase one of the two remaining copies. The one copy I gave away was given to the inspiration for the EPA water quality specialist - a friend who is an EPA water quality specialist; or was before retiring into private consulting work. In Venice? No, alas.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Junque Journals and Fun


Life is definitely for the fun-loving person. If you want to record your life as you live it, perhaps you'd like to make a Junque Journal (sometimes called an artist book or an altered book. Maybe even called a journal.) Here is a video I found for you all from TangieBaxter's YouTube channel.


She also has the three-part video on how to make this unique Junque Journal. It can be found at this link here: Link Here. Enjoy making a journal or just watching the video.





Thursday, October 27, 2011

Calvado Cover

Here is a photo I'm thinking of using for the cover of my novel

CALVADO: A Deadly Love Story

Calvado is a fashion model/medical school student who gets caught up with a gang-related singer with a deadly disease. Soon to be released on Smashwords.com If I finish editing it soon; after all, NaNoWriMo is just around the proverbial corner and my new novel

THE BLIND OPTHAMOLOGIST

is itching to be written.

Sunday, October 02, 2011

White Dragonfly Coptic

I made a small blank notebook with hand-backed cloth, Coptic binding, colored thread. Maybe 160 pages (10 signatures of four sheets each). I think it came out quite well and was a welcome respite from books that require glue (casebound, for example).

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Renewed Notebook

I made a blank notebook about three years ago and, being poorly constructed, it gradually fell apart with use. So I remade it, this time under expert supervision. Handbacked cloth, link-stitched, white endpapers, and a new and thicker book board. I also added three signatures of brown paper because the notebook was 75% full of doodles and doodads.

Below you can see the back and front plus some of the brown paper signatures that were added. And some of the doodling done for imposing content. Not that the content is imposing but I'm planning on printing out a novel and the content (a novel) needs to be imposed before I bind it. See? Good.

Sunday, September 04, 2011

Book Girl from 円プレス - Yen Press

I found this an interesting premise: a demoness who must eat books in order to stay alive. Naturally, she's got a gourmet taste for books and stories. Handwritten are the best. I don't know anything else about it but may check it out to read more. From Yen Press. Book Girl
BOOK GIRL AND THE SUICIDAL MIME by Mizuki Nomura  July 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-316-07690-6 | $8.99 ($10.99) | 192 pages | 5.5”x 8.25″ For Tohko Amano, a third-year high school student and self-styled “book girl,” being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It’s her bread and butter…literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she’s employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko’s appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy?

Friday, August 12, 2011

Muna Luz Sings

Some strange animal songs from Muna Zul, an a capella trio from Mexico. This one is called Baking Hollow. Listen and enjoy.



And this one is called Voto de Silencio. Listen and enjoy this one, too.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Raamen Shop

Another 20-second clip of a joint that serves food. Obsessed are we? Another JayCut creation.




Thanks for watching.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Conveyor Belt Food

No, not food made from a conveyor belt. Enjoy your sushi.



Made entirely from range-free fish. And cloud computing.