From world building to Ouija boards to what your tombstone will say, here are your Halloweekend reading recommendations from the Gumroad team.
Life & Leisure
Moleskin Doodles (Sketchy Stories)
Amazing, intricate doodles in pocket Moleskin notebooks.
A Gorgeous Film About a Magician Who Builds Solar Systems (io9)
The Rosetta comet mission and beyond.
Work & Creativity
Tim Cook Speaks Up (BloombergBusinessweek)
When helping others trumps personal privacy. Go Tim!
You Can Have an Easy Life or an Awesome One. Choose Wisely (99U)
What do you want your tombstone to say? Apparently you don’t get to choose that.
6 Creatives Who Prove You Can Hold a Day Job and Still Make Awesome Art (Aol Jobs)
Bit of a counter-point to the above for the artists out there.
Making Art People Care About (Gumroad blog)
Insights from five artists and designers.
Stuff & Things
Starbucks will begin delivering coffee next year (The Verge)
"Coffee delivery for Glumrod. Glumrod."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Released More than 400,000 Images Online (MetMuseum.org)
Download to your heart’s (non-commercial use) content.
Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Dead (Collectors Weekly)
A haunting collection of spirit trumpets, ghost photography, planchettes, and, of course, Ouija boards.
Odds & Ends
At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ (Washington Post)
Waiting for my honorary doctorate.
8 Urban Legends You Were Right to Believe (Refinery29)
Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!
A 100% Awesome, 100% Thorough Guide to NaNoWriMo 2013 (to be updated when this year’s launches) (NaNoWriMo.org)
ARE YOU READY? Our coverage begins Monday as we follow a handful of writers on their month-long journey