February 2010

From Kindling to Kindle

February 22, 2010

Will the future of reading affect the future of writing? James Joyce, it is said, became so disgruntled while drafting his first novel that he threw it on the fire. His girlfriend rescued the work-in-progress from the flames, and the subsequent rewrite became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Such acts of [...]

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From Kindling to Kindle

February 22, 2010

Will the future of reading affect the future of writing? James Joyce, it is said, became so disgruntled while drafting his first novel that he threw it on the fire. His girlfriend rescued the work-in-progress from the flames, and the subsequent rewrite became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Such acts of [...]

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Life of Making

February 20, 2010

Life of Making from Daedalus Howell | FMRL on Vimeo. A complement to an exhibit at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art of the same title, this short documentary similarly celebrates the work and workings of three internationally acclaimed artists who explore the boundary between the act of making and the art of living. Jim [...]

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Beware of Fauxnoma

February 19, 2010

Defining the “Sonoma lifestyle” can be an elusive proposition, especially since its interpretation is often left to marketers and PR flaks who draw from warmed-over notions of Napa from under a setting Tuscan sun. This is something I’m called upon to do, both professionally and socially, with some regularity. The former I can usually accomplish [...]

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