On the occassion of his 500th post, I want to direct Flog attention to the ridiculously hungry aesthetic mind of my pal Will Schofield and his blog, A Journey Around My Skull. Anyone interested in illustration and design (and photography and art and whatever is visually interesting that has existed somewhere in time, somewhere on the globe) should have this page bookmarked.
Equally impressive to any of the content is the sheer enthusiasm Will has for the work he features. This isn't link-blogging or pixelated attention-deficit syndrome, the guy is committed in a way that I wish I could be to anything. He seems to always be tracking down some 1970s Polish kids' book, or trying to unravel who is the (bizarre) Norman Rockwell of Japanese culture, or otherwise awaiting a dozen books from some foreign incarnation of Ebay.
Meanwhile, he works away at his day job editing for an intriguing independent book publisher (and surely, somehow, sleeping and eating) while carving out time to research, scan, and write up work that is almost uniformly obscure or under-appreciated. I honestly can't quite understand why he even does it, it's so damn generous. Please enjoy A Journey Around (Will's) Skull.
