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Stunning Three Dimensional Landscapes Made of Maps & Books by Ji Zhou

Chinese multimedia artist Ji Zhou’s latest exhibition titled Civilized Landscape explores the landscapes created by humanity. With the use of maps and books, Zhou beautifully sculpts the curves and textures of mountains and carefully choreographed skyscrapers.

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Kimberly Lemming﹒

Four Books Written By this Author:

That Time I Got Drunk & Saved A Demon

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com

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Happy reading!

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“Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Go” , illustration of Hisham Matar article in the New York Times Opinion Pages. Article here And dear followers, if you are in New York this days , the wonderful art director I worked with for this illustration Alexandra Zsigmond @zsigmonda  curated a double exhibition called “Fit To Print” , the opening event is 29th march at NewYork Times gallery space and 30th march at the Society of Illustrator . The exhibition is focused on french illustrators from Strasbourg as me, Marion Fayolle, Simon Roussin,icinori ,Lucie Larousse, Juliette Etrivert and many more! We ’ll be there , so see you may be!

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Trad pub debut - September 2025

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"What one thinks of as pictures in comics are really the equivalent of drawn words—words meant to be read, not looked at—which is analogous to the way humans perceive the world."

- Chris Ware, Paris Review

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Don't be jealous of me just because I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the Nintendo 3DS please.

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Title: The Best of All Possible Worlds | Author: Karen Lord | Publisher: Gollancz (2024)

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Kaoru Yamada

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the problem* with reading Robin McKinley's blog** is that once you've read through it*** you find yourself wanting to add footnotes to everything****

*not that it's a problem problem, as such, but it certainly can cause a simple sentence to balloon beyond its expected proportions

**https://robinmckinleysblog.com/ for the curious

***really just reading one post will be enough to do it. But there's plenty there to be read!

****also an affliction common to Terry Pratchett readers and other people who find themselves with a lot more they'd like to expound on if given the opportunity^

^or they manufacture the opportunity. carpe diem, etc.

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Today I understood why Mr Bingley is important for 'Pride and Prejudice.' Of course I've heard that he's Mr Darcy's foil and he helps us see that Mr Darcy lacks manners. And probably we need him to see a man whose character trait is quickly deciding to leave a place and who might never come back, and who also - I don't know - can easily get under the influence of his friends.

And I have always seen him as a very insignificant side character, and I never understood why there was even a need for him; like why Jane Austen of all people would write such a lacking(?) side character. He is not really a commentary on something. He's just fickle.

And was there even a need for Mr Bingley & Jane's love story? They're basically 'love at first sight, destined for each other' and they look quite out of place among the other three couples -- Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Lydia and Mr Wickham, Charlotte and Mr Collins -- that are all a commentary on love and society.

Today I understood that had there been no Mr Bingley Jane would've married Mr Collins out of obligation as the eldest sister and that would have been a very different book that didn't feel like such a happy story by the end of it (my Mom calls it a fairy tale), had only one of the sisters (Elizabeth) landed herself a love match.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is an undercurrent to Jane's story that is about her being an angel and that their love with Mr Bingley is a dream that rarely comes true, I don't know. But still, apparently Mr Bingley is not as inconsequential a character as he has always seemed to be.

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September 2025

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And I thought no blurbs was the worst thing on the back of a book