Minute Book Report is a YouTube channel that recaps novels and short stories through sketches made with Paper. The best thing since CliffsNotes!
Watch this fun visual summary of The Great Gatsby.
I really like the simple watercolor animation. The commentary isn’t half bad either.
Amazon’s Kindle Worlds: Instant Thoughts
The Twitters are abuzz today about Amazon’s new “Kindle Worlds” program, in which people are allowed to write and then sell through Amazon their fan fiction for certain properties owned by Alloy Entertainment, including Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little…
I recommend you read the linked post (at Scalzi’s Whatever) if you’re considering using this new publishing platform. tl;dr: you’re going to get screwed if you do.
Nothing like being in a library early in the morning where all you have to do is browse the shelves and discover something amazing.
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859—July 7, 1930; Happy birthday!)
Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller from the Brno University of Technology reveals the awesome beauty of the solar corona with these amazing composite images that he created by using 47 photos taken during a total solar eclipse.
To achieve the crystal clear effect the shots are comprised from some 40+ photos taken with two different lenses. Additional clarity was achieved due to the incredibly remote location chosen to view the eclipse from, a pier just outside the Enewetak Radiological Observatory on the Marshall Islands, smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You can see several more images from the project at Druckmüller’s website and don’t miss this much higher resolution version including some 209 stars.
[via Colossal]
WOW!! absolutely stunning!!
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