in text both spare and sure
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
listening...
to that little voice inside your head that replays things over and over until you find exactly the spot that's going to make you most uncomfortable.
Lord of the Rings re-creation: The Muppet Show in Ham’s Deep
http://www.silversnail.com/storefront/
These window displays (in Toronto's comic book store The Silver Snail) are recreations of the battle for Helm’s Deep from the Lord of The Rings, using Muppet Show action figures.
Thanks again to http://www.neatorama.com/
These window displays (in Toronto's comic book store The Silver Snail) are recreations of the battle for Helm’s Deep from the Lord of The Rings, using Muppet Show action figures.
Thanks again to http://www.neatorama.com/
10 Tibetan Monks and a Toddler
It took 10 Buddhist monks 2 days to create a sand mandala. Enter the two-year-old...
(thanks to http://www.neatorama.com/)
(thanks to http://www.neatorama.com/)
Monday, May 28, 2007
ENCHANTED VISIONS:
THE FILMS OF MICHAEL SPORN, part of the REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival, June 2–24, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Your Neighborhood Librarian
needs a palate cleanser
(More posts about children's books.)
And let me take this opportunity to link to this promotion for libraries (which I've linked to a couple of times before, but I like it so I'm linking to it again so sue me).
(More posts about children's books.)
And let me take this opportunity to link to this promotion for libraries (which I've linked to a couple of times before, but I like it so I'm linking to it again so sue me).
Cartoons as propaganda
Bibi has some beautiful examples. ("In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.")
From Lisa Congdon's book collection
Woodcut (?) by Helen Borten
Evaline Ness, Antonio Frasconi, Helen Borten, William Wondriska
More illustration by Helen Borten can be seen here.
Evaline Ness, Antonio Frasconi, Helen Borten, William Wondriska
More illustration by Helen Borten can be seen here.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Paper Dolls (Quite Rightly)
via martin klasch & mod mom:
Brigitte Bardot (1965), Harry Belafonte (1966), Donovan (1966), Ingemar Stenmark (Swedish alpine star, 1975), David Bowie (1976), paperdolls-from-1969
(Donovan)
Brigitte Bardot (1965), Harry Belafonte (1966), Donovan (1966), Ingemar Stenmark (Swedish alpine star, 1975), David Bowie (1976), paperdolls-from-1969
(Donovan)
Today is
the centenary of the birth of the man who created Tintin
Georges Prosper Remi (1907 - 1983), the inventor of the clean line.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Win a Prize For Overwritten Awfulness
(Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton)
Enter The Worst First Lines Contest on May 28th.
Entries received before the contest opens on May 28th or after it closes 24 HOURS LATER will not be considered.
My cable and electricity are back!
(Many thanks to Kids Lit and Valeria Petrone for this jpeg!)
A brief storm on Wednesday knocked trees onto the power lines. A huge broken limb was left hanging in the branches over the driveway. So we hired a tree service.
A two-man team arrived at 8:30 a.m. I woke my teenage son and told him to come watch the man with the chainsaw hoist himself 70 feet in the air. My son said, “I can see that on YouTube,” and he went back to sleep.
A two-man team arrived at 8:30 a.m. I woke my teenage son and told him to come watch the man with the chainsaw hoist himself 70 feet in the air. My son said, “I can see that on YouTube,” and he went back to sleep.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Happy Mother's Day
I was looking for this picture*, and clicking around I learned that in 2005 John and Bonny Buhler bought Sheila McGraw's illustrations for Love You Forever. The asking price for the complete set of illustrations was $300,000. I had no idea. I wonder what the actual purchase price was.
*http://www.lochgallery.com/images/stories/artwork/l/sheila_mcgraw/sm_04.jpg
*http://www.lochgallery.com/images/stories/artwork/l/sheila_mcgraw/sm_04.jpg
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thank you, Julia Rothman
A Syd Hoff Slideshow
http://www.pbase.com/csw62/hoff&view=slideshow
from the Cartoon Gallery (Wait a little bit for the thumbnails to load, and look for Theodore Geisel. )
from the Cartoon Gallery (Wait a little bit for the thumbnails to load, and look for Theodore Geisel. )
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Michael Sporn writes about Marionettes...
"Once Bil & Cora Baird had ruled the theatrical environs on TV (Bil & Cora Baird Show and Peter & the Wolf) , in theater (Flahooley, Baker Street) and on film (Sound of Music). Yet when the very successful scene in the film, Lili, where Leslie Caron talks to Bil Baird’s marionette, moved to Broadway as the musical, Carnival, it was Jim Henson who built the puppets for the show.
A sea change had happened. The marionette had become a hand puppet."
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1039
A sea change had happened. The marionette had become a hand puppet."
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1039
Friday, May 04, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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