Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Ark Project aka Fabulous But Unnecessary Purchases Part 1



Actually, the 'Part 1' in the title of this post is a little misleading. There are just so many unnecessary purchases in my past, and like past lovers, so easily forgotten when something newer and shinier comes along ...

A few weeks ago I wondered into Mag Nation on King Street, Newtown. My attention was immediately drawn to a fantastic illustrated book/magazine, 'Ark: an Illustrated Animal Bible'. So cool. The idea behind the Ark Project, as the name suggests, is to gather animals from all over the world and 'save' them in the Illustrated Animal Bible. More than 200 illustrators/artists contributed to the book, each providing an illustration of an animal from their part of the world. Australian contributors include Christopher Nielson, Nior, Monaux, Rinzen, Jeremyville, Drew Funk, Cupco and Ghostpatrol.

This afternoon I cracked and muttering something to MBH ran out and bought The Ark book. I just know this time it'll last.

5 comments:

Kettle said...

Tramampoline! Trambampoline! Where abouts on King Street? And how come you never told me about this before? Eh? EH? We could have wasted hours there together, days! Weeks! Months! Whole years!

Senji said...

Ah yes, Kettle, I prefer to release information slowly so as to keep my *many* readers enthralled, on the edge of their seats even.

It's next to Kuleto's on the block heading up to Missenden Road. You'll love it, fab mags as far as the eye can see :)

Kettle said...

Sounds like any visit would also require a trip to Campo's?

Senji said...

It would! Sounds like a fun outing. I would probably add a visit to Buppa's Bakehouse on south King Street for Red Velvet cake and/or pumpkin pie.

Kettle said...

Senj you had me at "Red Velvet cake".

PS, we've so sold out, just look at all our product placements. Shameless, aren't we?