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New Photography Book!
It's been three years in the making and quite a long strange trip, but my latest book, Lopapeysa: A Knitter's Guide to Iceland with Patterns, Techniques and Travel Tips is on sale in the UK and EU. It's got LOTS of photos and it's about a really exciting and photogenic location.
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NEW BOOK OUT!
TOP SEKRIT NO LONGER! Lopapeysa: A Knitter's Guide to Iceland with Patterns, Techniques and Travel Tips is out in the UK today. (U.S. version coming soon, but you can preorder from the usual places). It's 1/2 travel adventure, 1/2 historical mystery and 1/2 knitting book. With 12 original patterns by fiber wizard Joan of Dark (Knockdown Knits, Geek ( Read more... ) -
In Memory of Peter Straub: Part 1
In 2008 I'd just finished a wildly successful photo book called Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes and was feeling mounting pressure to follow it up, fastly, with something equally as exciting. I'd recently met science fiction novelist Michael Swanwick at a party and had thought a book of photographs of writers in their writing ( Read more... ) -
I'm in Bangkok and it's a bit of a whirlwind....
In May of 2021 I got an email out the blue from a guy named Jan Kath, a high end rug maker from Germany with offices in Nepal and India and New York and, it seemed, a lot of other places. He was doing a fiber art exhibit of moderin-ish Afghan "War Rugs" - these started popping up in Afghanistan in the 1980's and depict scenes of war in a ( Read more... ) -
9/11
Once again I almost didn't repost these stories from 9/11, but I figured I've been doing it this long - and it's so long now - we live in a world that spun out of that morning. It seems this time like it was nearly missed - there's just so much going on in the news that 9/11 was almost a blip. Anyway, here's 9/11 and it's aftermath like I saw it ( Read more... ) -
What to do when your dog is dying.
This came in the mail and I thought that since it applies to a lot of people, I'd answer here. If the rest of you want to share your stories and your love and your support, please do in the comments.
A reader writes:
Our dog Dolby has cancer and we don’t know how long he has left (3 months? 9 months?) do you have any advice to cope? My wife and I ( Read more... ) -
Emily the Spider book!!!!!
I'm kickstarting a free book about Emily the Spider!We want to make a free book that teaches people about the amazing lives of spiders ( Read more... ) -
LJ Mon Amour
LJ, if you get cut off from us, it's been a great 20 years. You've got a really clunky editor, but you've never been surpassed. Thanks Brad Fitzpatrick, you made a beautiful place where people met and fell in love with the idea of knowing each other. -
2021-2011
Every year since 1999 I've been taking a self portrait a midnight. The self portrait lasts two seconds and starts in the last second of one year and ends in the first second of the next, catching a little bit of both. This year, and for the past two years actually, we spent a lot of time in the back yard. It seemed sensible to take our portrait ( Read more... ) -
Scott Church
Back in Ye Olden Days when I was thinking that I wanted to become a better photographer (I'd wanted to be a photographer since I was very little, but at some point I thought it would be nice to get good at it). At the time I rolled into Philadelphia, Scott Church was the photographer everybody was talking about. He had a book out. Which was pretty ( Read more... )