Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think "Piranesi meets Escher"), and rambling story lines, MacAulay details each step of his winding journey towards completion of his illustrated homage to the city.
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David Macaulay is famous for his "how things work" books.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
- Rose Macaulay
I think animal sounds are sorely underutilized in music.
I have thought that ever since first hearing the lovely introductory sounds in Lemon Jelly's A Tune for Jack (2001):
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A very nice obituary