Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps is a story told entirely within Google Maps.
Simply click on each link in order to follow the trail as the story unfolds across a map of the world.
[The 21 Steps]
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The 21 Steps is interesting in that it’s “told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world”.
By using a Google Maps interface, you can follow the trail by clicking the link at the bottom of each bubble.
Is this the future of reading?
[The 21 Steps]
[Via: The Presurfer]
Armed America: Portraits of American Gun Owners in Their Homes “isn’t a book about guns. It’s a book about people”.
Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over the course of two years to ask those featured just one question: Why do you own a gun?”
The goal was to humanize an issue as polarizing as gun ownership and [...]
SteamPunk Magazine puts the punk back into steampunk with issue four of their magazine.
Inside this issue are “steampunky stories and biographies, an interview with New Weird shakers Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and makers Donna Lynch and Steve Archer, DIY millinery, making a Jacob’s Ladder, learning to plate stuff with brass, and the straight dope on [...]
Fuck This Book is a collection of unaltered and untasteful images of “real public signs that have been mischievously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four-letter words”.
What’s the message?
Thankfully, nothing: “This is not social commentary. There is no message. It’s not meant to offend, exploit, or embarrass anyone.”
Instead, it’s just meant to [...]
If you want to play the Game, you’ve got to know the Rules.
Neill Strauss lives by that motto, and he definitely knows how to play the game. Thankfully, with “Rules of the Game”, he also wants to teach you the rules so that you can play the game as well.
More than just a sequel, “Rules [...]
…It’s Things Thursday: Fuck This Book?
Fuck This Book is a collection of unaltered and untasteful images of “real public signs that have been mischievously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four-letter words”.
What’s the message?
Thankfully, nothing: “This is not social commentary. There is no message. It’s not meant to offend, exploit, or embarrass anyone.”
Instead, it’s just meant to [...]