Reckon Update

Sorry about the delay in getting this blog rolling. I’ve been swamped and will start things up asap.

Thanks for your support!

New Ready to Wear items will be added to the Reckon shop on a regular basis. Subscriptions are now open. Custom ordering is now open.

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1. Thanks to those who took advantage of the sale this weekend! Three day sale on all kid's clothing. Simply enter coupon code YOUTH15 at checkout for 15% off each item! The code is case sensitive, so please use all caps. Reckon Shop Custom Orders Ready to Wear Youth Photo Set on Flickr

2. The Beat Generation t-shirt sale has ended. My apologies, but I promise it will come again.

   Thanks as always for shopping in the real, and for your continued support of Beat Poetics.

   The more exposure to the beats the better off we all will be…

   You can still order a custom Beat lit t-shirt (or other) on the Custom page, or pick one up at Book People at 6th and Lamar in Austin. They’re graciously featuring Beat Generation writers in the store this month to coincide with the On the Road with the Beats exhibit at the University of Texas at Austin / Harry Ransom Center.

   The exhibit explores the lives and works of the artists who made up the “Beat Generation.”

   Featuring more than 250 items drawn from across the Ransom Center’s collections, the exhibition will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries at The University of Texas at Austin.

   Jack Kerouac’s scroll manuscript of On the Road, on loan from the collection of Jim Irsay, will be on display from March 7 through June 1. The first 48 feet of this 120-foot “page” (aka “the roll”) will be visible in the gallery. This visually stunning first draft has no paragraph or chapter breaks, and the characters are referred to by their real names.

   

   
3. Heatherwick Studio's Rolling Bridge is located within a new residential, office and retail quarter set around part of the Grand Union Canal. Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self. Twelve metres long, the bridge is made in eight steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section. The Rolling Bridge won the 2005 British Structural Steel Award.
4. Yesterday a giant drill bit broke through the surface in London near the Tower Bridge and a similar one appeared in Dumbo, Brooklyn near The Brooklyn Bridge. This was a sign that Paul St George is very close to completing work on an amazing project started by his great-grandfather Alexander Stanhope St George, The Telectroscope, which will be installed at both ends of a transatlantic viewing tunnel between London and New York, allowing people to see each other in the two cities. Visit The Telectroscope website for more info and their blog for the latest updates. via Laughing Squid

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