reading notes

by Danny Gregory
ISBN: 156898443X
A little more than two years after his wife was run over by a subway train and paralyzed, Gregory started to draw. One of the results is this book, subtitled “A New York Diary.”
So there are two things going on in this book: figuring out what to do when your life falls [...]

by Mark Cotta Vaz
ISBN: 0811839753
I was suprised at how integral analog art was in the making of the digital film. The computer-generated art took direction and inspiration from pastels, charcoal sketches, marker-drawn storyboards, and acrylic and oil paintings, many of which are reproduced in this book. In fact, there are very few digitally produced [...]

by Jesse James Garrett
ISBN: 0735712026
This book isn’t a “how to do” book, but a “how to think about” book — which I think makes it more valuable. The problem with far too many websites is that no one person (let alone a team) has thought through the website, from the strategy behind creating the site [...]

by Kelley Eskridge
ISBN: 0060086602
Eskridge’s writing is a serious cut above what I think of as standard genre-fiction quality. This book (her first) is full of vivid descriptions, real conversations, and little bits that make her characters seem human. This is a well-paced story — Eskridge made me want to know how things were going to [...]