Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Helping run a books blog pretty much means my reading rate has drastically increased. A couple of things that I managed to tackle lately:

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen Krippendorfs Tribe download

This is Penguin Canada’s big title for the summer and you know what, it’s going to be a hit. It’s the story of a 12-year-old cartographic genius who tries to make his way to the Smithsonian by riding the rails. The book is twee, precious, adorable, beautifully written and illustrated.

Rocket Science

• Perfect Hideout trailer

The Cello Suites, by Eric Siblin

One Night in the Tropics buy Blondie on a Budget movie Part travelogue, part music history lesson, part historical mystery, Siblin’s book was a joy to read. Best accompanied by the Cello Suites themselves.

What Would Google Do?, by Jeff Jarvis

A great book by one of the most interesting media thinkers around right now. My review of the book ran in the Post here.

My friends have been doing some amazing things lately so I thought I’d point you to some of them:

Rannie Turingan has taken some amazing panoramas with his iPhone (!) and the panorama app:

• Point of No Return movie

Point of Entry full movie

There’s more on his Flickr feed

• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane divx

Jodi at Cursive Mechanic bakes up a delicious Lemon Meringue pie. While Beth has been making salad, soup and then some.

My friends at Worn started a Tumblr blog.

Zoe sings Sarah McLachlan at Twuneup.

The Hurricane dvd

Believe in Me move

@ZoeSasha covering Possession from photojunkie on Vimeo.

Plasterhead dvdrip

Cousin Simone makes some adorable hair accessories Crank move .

And what about me you ask? Blogging up a storm on the Afterword and I have a secret project that a few people know about that I’m unveiling soon.