A house made of books? It has to be a library. Sure, but Lacuna project is more: it is really a building that has been constructed from books.
Lacuna is an art installation constructed from 50 000 books. It is also a library where people can walk in, browse the … Read >
Many museums publish beautiful paper books on art collections, historical objects and exhibitions they have. Print books, however, only have a limited life span. When books become too costly to print and keep in stock, they become unavailable. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has solved the availability problem of old … Read >
Your smartphone knows where you are, because its GPS receiver can calculate your location. Now that your phone knows exactly in which street corner you are standing, it could tell you something about nearby places and sights as well. That’s exactly what Google Field Trip application does.
The Field Trip … Read >
Lapland is a land of surprises. We all know that Santa Claus has his home in Lapland – in Rovaniemi, Finland to be exact – but it may be surprising to you what reindeers are doing when they are not in duty. Some of the reindeers, it seems, like to … Read >
When authors dislike a colleague, they really know how to deliver the message to the world. Who can describe beauty and kindness, or ugliness and stupidity better than authors? Because they are writers, they tend to deliver their message in writing, which makes our job easier to correctly quote them. … Read >
A recent innovation, tablets, is a wonderful way to read books. Particularly colorful ebooks, textbooks, and comics that include both fun and useful images, graphs and other images really shine on a modern tablet. Did you know that tablets were the first book format when writing was invented thousands of … Read >
Travel writers and photographers tend to take plenty of photos as the move around a destination they are covering. Most images never get published, because they don’t have that extra something, but they are still important since they document the place and remind how it was. There is a technique, … Read >
In the northern hemisphere, spring is in the air. Not only in the air, especially in the regions where the snow is melting, rivers and rapids are filled with powerfully flowing water. Here is a scene from Scandinavia. View the video:
Planning to travel in Scandinavia? A travel guide to … Read >
Just like many authors who write travel guidebooks, here at Klaava we love to photograph places we visit. Sometimes a long enough visit allows our writers to produce a travel guide on the destination. Paris is the number one travel destination in the world, and thousands of tourist guides have … Read >
A funny infographic Time Breakdown of the Writing Process made me think about book writing process. From my own experience, I knew that only a fraction of time allocated for writing really is productive writing time. But how small fraction of time, and what other tasks writing involves? Since writing … Read >
