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Figures that the minute I go on maternity leave that my workplace (the Children’s Center at 42nd Street in the main branch of NYPL) goes and gets itself something neat.  Check it out.

The exhibit is called Children’s Book Illustrators and Authors Come Alive.  That’s a title I admittedly find rather amusing since it implies that these folks have risen from their grave to display their work in the Children’s Center.  Zombie art!  At any rate this is the first time the room has displayed art of any kind, so we’re rather thrilled.  The current exhibit features eleven different author/illustrators, all of whom published books in the 2010/11 season.  Some other shots:

And that’s not all!  For about two years now the room has been sitting on a painting created specifically for the Children’s Center by none other than Todd Parr himself.  Now the art is up for one and all to see and it melds with the space so beautifully that the last three times I was there I failed to even notice it.  Voila!

The exhibit of art is up from now until the end of the year.  The Todd Parr painting may well be permanent.  If you would like to view any of these, please be so good as to stop by.  I’ll be around after September 15th and would be happy to give you a little tour.

I like displaying the week’s most talked about video at the end of the week on Video Sunday.  It shows that while I don’t act as quickly as other blogs, at least I can sum up well.  Last week I showed the Old Spice Guy library PSA.  This week, right from the campus of Brigham Young University itself, comes this advertisement for their Harold B. Lee Library.  When I first heard about this ad I thought it would be some low budget cheesiness.  Quite the contrary!  A delight through and through.

All right.  Enough of that.  It’s summer.  We’re all heading down to the beach.  Let’s just get some tips from a mermaid then.  A little mermaid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xCgC3w1zs&feature=player_embedded

I like the idea of always having friends that are smaller than you.  Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.

On a day I was out, Al’s Book Club from The Today Show stopped by my children’s room.  The clips sort of mix my room in with clips from a different library, but anytime you spot dark wood you know they’re at my workplace.  The beanbag chairs are another fabulous indicator.  You can even see my chicken puppet in the background of one shot from the video interview I conducted with Dan Santat (I gave it to the library).

Very cool.  Pairs well with the recent interview I gave to The Today Show about the Ramona books too.

Considering that I just saw a variation on this joke in the movie Inception, it’s pretty funny that I’d run across it again so soon.  I’d missed the fact that Michael Ian Black had a new video out for his latest picture book.  The person who sent me this video said he was wearing a monkey outfit but due to the presence of his joey, that is clearly a kangaroo costume.  Albeit, not a purple one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZv2UsA_q9Q&feature=player_embedded

Other celebrities may write picture books, but none of them put on costumes as silly as Mr. Black’s.  Just sayin’.

Now wow!  Wowie and also a bit of zowie!  This video has been out a good two years now, but I’ve only just now run across it.  This is epic!  How is it we’ve never seen it before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NO3×6dOFCQ&feature=player_embedded

Many many thanks to Children’s Illustration for the link.

And now the off-topic vid of the day.  I didn’t know that NPR had gotten into the video business, and I don’t think I would have known at all had not my buddy Don passed along this cool link called Look Up! This reminds me of those old 3-2-1 Contact videos they used to show (and when are those coming out on DVD, might I ask?).

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