"I used to think this was just part of the natural randomness of the highway. Sometimes fate would steer me into the faster lane, sometimes it would relinquish me to the slow lane. That was until recently, when I had an experience that made me rethink my traditionally passive outlook on the road, and upset the careful set of assumptions that had always guided my behavior in traffic.
I made a major lifestyle change. I became a late merger."
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
Emily Gravett's lovely book is really an illustrated book for children, but it's so cleverly done that the child in me would very much have liked to see this under the tree this year. Each page is titled with a phobia, and although my fear of navels is not mentioned, there are some interesting ones such as whereamiophobia (the fear of getting lost).The Roma Journeys
Cia Rinne and Joakim Eskildsen visited and stayed with Roma families between 2000 and 2006 and The Roma Journeys document these encounters. I found Joakim's photographs when searching for some pictures for work, and there's something so very fascinating about his portraits of the Roma.American Elf
The Collected Sketchbook Diaries of James KochalkaEvery day American Elf Kochalka draws a little comic strip about something that happened to him that day. The strip archive is finally available to us non-subscribers as well, but I still would like to have this book!
Asakusa Portraits
Hiroh Kikai started his Asakusa series of monochrome portraits as early as 1973. He may wait at the Sensō-ji temple for four or five hours, hoping to see somebody he wants to photograph, and three or four days may pass without a single photograph; but he may photograph three people in a single day, and he has photographed over six hundred people in this way.The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo was once home to the city’s historic pleasure palaces, and today embraces a stubbornly independent popular culture that encompasses traditional comedy theater and houses of erotic entertainment.
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