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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-08-14/john-fogerty-creedence-clearwater-revival-woodstock-grateful-dead I really love seeing Alan's galleries, too! Did you read this interview with John Fogerty in the LA Times yesterday …

I love these, too! Thanks for sharing. I am thinking rocks under his feet? Some are almost like eggs. I was writing an article, "What does Utopia look like?" and my research led me to him. I am hoping Cake will have a panel with Aart so we can ask …

Artists dream of landing a coveted assignment to illustrate a story for the New Yorker, a publication that’s been setting the standard for excellence for 95 years! I just chatted with Aart-Jan Venema about his process for depicting utopian worlds …

Chris, my husband also has a strange mix of ambidextrous traits! He bats, throws, golfs and plays ice hockey left-handed, writes and eats righty, but uses both left and right hands for his mouse. The majority of his strength is on his left side but …

It’s my pleasure. Thank you for a great conversation!

Amen to that! I’ll take a hammock and a book any day.

It's sort of sad to hear books described as ancient technology, but I get it. I think books are evergreen and I hope we never stop making them! In “Game of Thrones” Sam works at the Citadel with all of that knowledge confined to one place. It …

Looks fascinating! I can see this is a large-format book with lots of photos and they are always more expensive to produce than a standard 6x9 trade book. Just off the top of my head, I’d say he spent at least $12/copy for printing, paper, binding …

Oh, certainly. Some of the early online DIY publisher platforms (Lulu and iUniverse come to mind) had a rough time but they stuck it out and now there are dozens of selling outlets for authors. One of the problems back then was getting your book …

That's a great question and one I get asked a lot. Here is a simplified example comparing the two models with a 5,000 book print run. You can see the publisher’s profit isn’t enough. Self-Publishing Model Book retail price: $24.00 Total revenue …

The formula for an advance/royalty arrangement is pretty much the same as it has always been. Generally speaking, a publisher has to sell 10,000 copies of a title to make a profit. Remember that whatever the selling price of the book is, the …

Ultimately, I think it’s because turning pages is germane to the reading experience. We’re also spending hours each day looking at screens so moving our eyes to paper is certainly a much-needed break from that stress.

I was distressed, too. There was a mindset that we’d seen the end of paper books and everything would be electronic. I was living in San Francisco at the time and I remember the quote from Lawrence Ferlinghetti who owned the landmark bookstore …

Thanks for inviting me!

This is a great sign shot, @JeffersonGrahamPhoto. It's #3 on LA Weekly's list of the 10 best neon signs in Los Angeles. Looks as though the sign maker's pattern paper slipped when he was laying down "Cocktails" over the stripes!

One of the things I love about period films is the chance they give to revive lost arts. I’ve worked on a few period movies including Racing with the Moon depicting California in 1942, and James Cameron’s Titanic, a film that set the standard for …

I’ve been waiting for this movie to come out and I saw it on Saturday. Tarantino’s depiction of Los Angeles in 1969 is perfection. I spent years living in Southern California and working in Hollywood. The place has a feeling that is not easy to …

I got hooked on Netflix's remake of Lost in Space, even though it is a little soppy. And they are working on season two right now, which should be airing at the end of this year or by early 2020.

Waving hello... I'm in North Texas now but you can't take the Califorina out of the girl ;-). I was in MDR a few months ago and the plants and succulents along the Venice canals were amazing after a winter of good rain. Have you done a photowalk …

Really great photowalk, Jefferson! I lived in Laguna from 2002-2010, then moved up to Redondo. I sure miss SoCal.

@Shewmaker, thanks for that research! The illustration is from a book published in 1824, Zoological researches in Java. Here is an excerpt from the author's description of Mus Setifer: "Several points of agreement between the Mus setifer and the …

This is labelled "Mus Setifer" so possibly a mouse, but doesn't the tail look like a rat? How do you tell?!

And he's a darling Chief Mouser! (Despite coming in with high reputation, Larry took two whole months to catch his first rodent.)

I can't believe how hard it is to find good tasting tomatoes (or carrots, for that matter) in the North Dallas area where I live now, unless I happen to get to the farm stand very early on market day! The expensive heirlooms at Sprouts and Whole …

Oh, Denise, I meant to add that I love to hear you are supporting the farm stands. It's the only place to find any good tasting tomatoes! I designed/packaged this book for the Santa Fe Farmers Market with the photographer a few years back. Was a …