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bubbl.us

I like bubbl.us , which I've been using to brainstorm some of the material I'm working on for my Action/Interaction proposal. It's a very basic mindmapping tool, but it has its good points

• it's free
• it works (I've had all sorts of java -based nonsense with things like freemind in the past)
• I suppose it's a plus that it's web-based. It's there when I have a moment/inclination to work. If browsers ever get the ability to keep and synchronise offline content from various online tools, I'm golden.

I see this as making an ideal tool for someone to develop further. I hope the people starting it can gain a large enough audience to keep going and market their site. Although this isn't a traditional 'office' tool, it's the thing that I find I can really get the writing and thinking going with.

Spikings

Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins show at Spike Island

I would love to be on the ball a bit more about things happening at Spike ( I teach at the Printmakers offshoot regularly, so I really ought to. Anyway, I've just pestered their admin to include my email when they post out about talks and so on, so that I won't miss exciting shows like the one above. BTW, Spike's coverage of the show is super-lite. I haven't a foggy what it's about apart from blue cross-hatching. Time to step over the road and find out.

Estonia

via Illumineera

There's another book art show at the national library of Estonia, which looks to be a wonderful great bunker of a place:all poured concrete textures.

The Getting of Eggs: A Nestor Chimbonda Mystére

Aperiatur Terra

By (ahem) popular demand...

Saw the newish Anselm Kiefer show at White Cube on Saturday, along with the super 'Babylon' towers at the RA courtyard. (Much better than that Hirst nonsense)

The title of the exhibition, Aperiatur terra, is a quotation from the Book of Isaiah, which translates as ‘let the earth be opened’ and continues ‘and bud forth a saviour and let justice spring up at the same time’. These contrasting themes of destruction and re-creation, violent upheaval and spiritual renewal underpin much of Kiefer’s work.

Book Art exhibits

A couple more book art exhibitions. It'd be nice to see some here in the UK.

The first, How I entered there I cannot truly say is in Australia. The title makes me think of Tom Phillips' Inferno, which I first saw at college in Carlisle, now so many years ago (!). I see that one can now buy the thing for about £35. I might get one. Anyway, the exhibition looks good too. I haven't heard before of Diane Cogwell (which merely shows my hignerance, since she's evidently been doing this stuff awhile).

The second is in Utah, and seems more binding-oriented, being the work of the Guild of Book Workers.