April 23rd: Celebrate World Book and Copyright Day...
My IT professional brother emailed me this morning to tell me that today is World Book and Copyright Day according to UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (Maybe I should have brought cupcakes to work. Every celebration need cupcakes.)
The UNESCO website says that on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. April 23rd is also the birthday or death date of other noted authors like Maurice Druon, K. Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
The purpose of World Book and Copyright Day, says UNESCO, is "to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright." Sound good to this editor.
P.S. The theme of Bob Dylan's radio show today: birds--all songs about birds.
P.P.S. My brother just emailed me again to say that it's also National Jelly Bean Day and National Cherry Cheesecake Day. (When is National Cupcake Day?) Apparently my brother is not very busy at work.
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By: Alice Pope,
on 4/23/2008
Blog: Alice's CWIM blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: rodhunt,
on 10/16/2007
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I'm drawing live at the Cut and Paste tournament for Varoom magazine and Doodle Earth!
Varoom / Doodle Earth Details
Varoom / Doodle Earth at Cut and Paste Digital Design Tournament
Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
Saturday, October 20th 2007, doors open 7pm; Competition from 8 – 11pm
Tickets £10 in advance; £12 on the door
To book your ticket visit www.cutandpaste.com
The AOI www.theaoi.com and Varoom magazine www.varoom-mag.com have teamed up with Squint Opera www.squintopera.com/and Doodlearth www.doodlearth.com/, to bring a live interactive drawing installation to Cut & Paste, part of a global tour stretching from San Francisco to Tokyo, where designers go head to head in an adrenaline-fuelled design competition.
On the night, a cityscape animation film will be screened onto a backdrop. Illustrators Tim Ellis, Rod Hunt, AOI deputy Chair and Miss Led, winner of Secret Wars at Designersblock Illustrate, will add their drawings and doodles to the paper in order to create a painting inspired by the projection's progression. The work will grow and take on a life of its own as members of the public are invited to join in.
Thanks to Sharpies for their fine marker pens.
If you would like more information on the Varoom/Doodle earth event please contact Beth King, Events and Marketing Coordinator on 020 7324 7222 or email [email protected].
Apparently, National Cupcake Day isn't until December 15; but if you favor chocolate cupcakes, they get their day October 18.
If you send your brother a copy of the annual Chase's Calendar of Events, he'll never work again.
Debbie (who was somewhat surprised to discover while googling that there's a blog entirely devoted to cupcake appreciation)
Fun blog, thanks for sharing... especially the info on National Cupcake Day. =)
The purple cover makes your book very easy to find amid the pile of magazines, markers and diapers. Thanks.