Why can’t we read anymore?

Read this… if you can still read more than a couple of paragraphs! ;-)

Why can’t we read anymore?

The reasons for that low number are, I guess, the same as your reasons for reading fewer books than you think you should have read last year: I’ve been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs. Let alone chapters. Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs. It just seems such an awful lot of words to concentrate on, on their own, without something else happening. And once you’ve finished one chapter, you have to get through another one. And usually a whole bunch more, before you can say finished, and get to the next. The next book. The next thing. The next possibility. Next next next.

P.S. Last two books that I read in paperback, are Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. Now waiting for part #3… :)

Flying Cloud (a clipper ship drawing)

After I tweeted and dribbbled, I decided also to blog about a simple drawing experiment of mine. Here it is — the Flying Cloud clipper ship:

Flying cloud (drawing by Michel Bozgounov)
Flying Cloud (my drawing with a Rotring 0.35 mm pencil, an eraser and a simple ruler).

I used as reference the famous painting by Antonio Jacobsen:

Flying Cloud, by Antonio Jacobsen
Antonio Jacobsen: Flying Cloud, 1913 (the painting is in the Public Domain).

It all started with a couple of lines on the paper… (I know that my drawing has many flaws but making it was a lot of fun!:-)

In the next GIF file I tried to super-impose the two drawings:

Flying cloud (drawing)
The original painting and my drawing.

I love ships, and especially sailing ships.

I think that the clipper ship is the most perfect ship ever invented by man. Of course, with the coming of the steam engine, clippers started to disappear, but even today, they are still as perfect and beautiful! :-)