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February 4, 2010

Wired Magazine Best New Gear: Byloos Designed Couch Straps Make the List

Filed under: Design — Tags: , , , , — Matty @ 11:37 am

Wired Magazine’s Gadget Lab Announces Best New Gear List

Byloos Couch Strap Wired Magazine

Byloos Designed Couch Strap at Wired Magazine

Always nice to get a little surprise in the morning. Today, it came in the form of a facebook message from Dan Perkins, owner and founder of Couch Guitar Straps from Long Beach. A few years ago, I did a little design for his Artist Series guitar straps, most of which feature vegan, dead-stock vintage vinyl. I guess we did pretty well with the design, and it’s gone on to sell to a lot of musicians. (more…)

February 3, 2010

Heavy Metal Birds

Filed under: Artists — Tags: , , , , , , — Matty @ 10:00 am

New Artist Commission for The Curve, Barbican, London

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. When stunning video work comes around, (more…)

Secondary Sources: Author Interviews List

Filed under: Article Research — Tags: , , , , — Matty @ 9:45 am

Secondary Sources: My New Favorite Site for All Things Literary Research

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Secondary Sources Google Image Search Result

It pays to be loyal to your blogs, people. Every morning, it’s become ritual for me to refresh pages on tabs and tabs that I keep open all the time in the hope that new material of interest comes my way. Never to be disappointed, the cadre of intelligentsia over at HTML Giant, the Internet Literature Magazine Blog of the Future, has supplied me with this pure bliss.

Click and enjoy: Secondary Sources Complete List of Author Interviews Online, Including links.

February 1, 2010

Monday Reading List: February 1, 2010

Filed under: Reading List — Tags: , , , — Matty @ 4:51 pm

More Solid Reading Around the Web, Old and New

Danziger Projects Alejandra Llaviada

Danziger Projects: Alejandra Llaviada

I’ve been coming across one too many really great pieces of writing not to share. Here’s a short list for you if you’re looking for some good stuff to read while bored at work this week…

“I Am the Unicorn,” by Nicolle Elizabeth, over at the Rumpus. Beautiful, deeply human, well executed and heavy. Nothing like a seemingly far-reaching tangent in an essay that then gets neatly folded back into the fabric of the piece. (more…)

January 24, 2010

Whisper Sessions 1 in Portland, OR: Reading Photos

Filed under: Floss Book Tour — Tags: , , , , — Matty @ 1:30 pm

Write Bloody Presents: The Whisper Sessions Reading #1 from January 16, 2010: Portland, OR
Performers: Matty Byloos, Paul Maziar, Derrick Brown, Carrie Seitzinger, Michael Roberts, Special Guests

One sweet shot to capture all the magic…

Whisper Sessions Reading in Portland, OR Jan. 16, 2010

Whisper Sessions Reading in Portland, OR Jan. 16, 2010

How sweet is this? Featuring, from left: Paul Maziar, Matty Byloos, Michael Roberts, Derrick Brown. Carrie Seitzinger in the front row.

So the message here is: special private party, this time in Derrick Brown’s hotel room in Portland at the Double Tree downtown. Write Bloody authors, special guests, invite only, new material, hopefully an ongoing tradition wherever 3 or more are gathered in the WB name…. How lucky am I to know and work with these people?!

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