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This summer, I have done a live illustration on the sidewalk of my little city. This is part of a great project to revitalize the neighbourhood. The theme is The art of sharing. The public is welcome to vote for their favorite art.
This is where I need your help, please vote for my illustration - Socialisation et partage -.
The We Need Diverse Books campaign has kicked it up a notch with an Indiegogo campaign. They’re raising money to support authors, diversify classrooms, develop educational kits, promote diverse programming, you name it. As of my writing this they are $40,000 or so away from their goal. Check it out:
And now for something completely different. Cookie Monster has parodied Harry Potter and Hunger Games (not to mention Star Wars). Dare we hope Twilight is on the horizon? Because I would pay a lot of money to hear him say, “Climb onto me back, little spider monkey.”
It was Travis at 100 Scope Notes who alerted me to the Vine illustrator videos at The Guardian. There are lots there to choose from so I had a hard time figuring out which one to show here. In the end I went with James Mayhew. Lovely stuff.
Thanks to Travis for the link!
Moomins! Rivera Moomins! In Finnish, yes? Beautifully done.
By the way, when I die I’m coming back as one of Aaron Zenz’s kids. A strange ambition but after watching this video can you blame me?
I don’t think I need to tell you children’s librarians out there what a perfect fall craft this would be. And talk about cheap! Here are some additional photos of their creations. These kids once did some Giant Dance Party fan art that I treasure to this day. And as a side note, how cool is it that they watched Exit Through the Gift Shop as a family?
All I can say about this next Alice in Wonderland inspired video is that I am SO grateful I didn’t watch this while on any kind of drugs. Lordy.
I don’t think I need remind any of you that this past week BookOps (the combined technical services of New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library) engaged in a sort-off with the Kings County Library system. You were all watching the play by play on your phones, right? Right? No? Hm. Well, in any case, I am happy to report that this year we won our trophy back. It was a close race but that’s how we get it DONE, SON! Now you can see this drone video of our freakin’ awesome sorter here, but if you’d like to check out the competition the following video shows a sorter very much like our own (and a Collection Specialist doing my job to a tee).
Granted, we don’t have a machine named “Mustang” in our building, but we’re still pretty cool.
I agree with Jezebel that Samuel Jackson’s reading of Go the F*** to Sleep is as good as it gets, but LeVar Burton reading it fulfills some deep hitherto unknown need in my soul. Do I really have to warn you about the language in this?
As for our off-topic videos, this one got me to thinking about how these goofy little internet videos often strip down a famous song to its most essential elements, and make it clear how strong the original melody really was. I think it was Weird Al who pointed out that he could only parody songs that had a distinctive melody. Case in point:
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Portuguese artist Maria Imaginário paints colorful images filled with playfulness and wonder. Wherever her art appears, whether on canvas, wood or brick, you'll feel compelled to stop and look deeper.
On interior walls Maria paints with acrylic and tries to create environments that draw viewers in to her bittersweet world. On exterior walls she paints with spray paint and gives new life to the drab, gray walls of abandoned builds throughout the streets of Lisbon. Maria says she likes to make simple drawings, using vibrant and happy colors.
I sprayed some of my owl stencils on really thin Chinese painting practice paper to see how they would paste to things. I found that I really liked them on smooth trees because they completely adhere to the surface in a way that looks natural. In fact from a distance it looks like someone carved the image into the tree. I think I might got for a new line of natural looking wheatpasted images on “wild” surfaces.
3/31 is a particularly great--and particularly diverse--pub date for us. Three wildly different books, all of which we love for different reasons. Please give a warm welcome to these new books, available at bookstores and online! Also, New Yorkers, there's still room at Ludmila Ulitskaya's event at Columbia on Tuesday--the rest are sold out. Learn more here!
Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew, miraculously survives the Holocaust by working in the Gestapo as a translator. After the war, he converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, enters the Order of Barefoot Carmelites and emigrates to Israel. Despite this seeming impossibility, the life and destiny of Daniel Stein are not an invention, the character is based on the life of Oswald Rufeisen, the real Brother Daniel, a Carmelite monk.
An encyclopedia of street culture for those who love Banksy or Irvine Welsh and want to know about the cutting-edge talents, past and present who have shaped urban cool.
THE WHITE-LUCK WARRIOR: THE ASPECT-EMPEROR, BOOK TWOR. Scott Bakker Learn more here
Widely praised by reviewers and a growing body of fans, R. Scott Bakker has already established his reputation as one of the few unique new talents in the fantasy genre. Now comes the second book of the Aspect-Emperor series. As Anasûrimbor Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well.
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I guess that there’s a mild irony to the fact that while I’ll write up anyone’s literary event if I’m able to attend, if I help to throw the darn things myself then suddenly I clam up. For example, with the possible exception of the blogger panel I had two years ago, I don’t think I’ve ever written up one of my Children’s Literary Salons. Why is this? Because I am lazy, I don’t have access to photographs of the event much of the time, and because I feel like it’s tooting my own horn. That said, I seem to be more than happy to link to other folks when they choose to write up my Salons. Case in point, this great little recap of what when down when I invited Sam Ita and Kyle Olmon to be a part of my Children’s Lit Salon on pop-up books. Wow, thanks, Kyle! Now who wants to recap last Saturday’s Peter Pan Salon? Anyone? Anyone?
I really enjoyed Exit Through the Gift Shop when I saw it on DVD not too long ago (and grateful that it clarified the image on this cover). I guess it makes sense to show the film to kids too. It’s a lot of fun, slightly subversive, and can lead to ideas like the one author/illustrator Aaron Zenz had. Want to get your child’s creative juices flowing without defacing other peoples’ property? Check out one of the more creative rock and paint related ideas I’ve seen. You know what I think? I think a library could have a Street Art craft program (for kids or teens) doing this and encourage them to also hide them around the city. Nice photographs too.
Wow! Kirkus doesn’t mess around. When they decided to get into this whole online world thing they didn’t tippy toe into it, but rather leapt headfirst in one fell swoop! Getting bought will do that to you, I guess. Now on top of reviewing Apps, offering readalikes for each book they cover, and making all their reviews free online, they’ve just revealed the second round of book bloggers on the site. I already knew about the YA ones on there (Bookshelves of Doom, YA or STFU, and The YaYaYas) but what’s this I see? Could it be Jules Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast who is currently writing a book with Peter Sieruta and myself? Tis! A good roster, but what’s up with three YA folks and only one for kids’ stuff? More! I want more fantastic bloggers paid for their work! More, I say!
Speaking of Peter, I hope y’all got a chance to check out his most recent post concerning (amongst many things) his thoughts on last night’s Celebrity Apprentice where they had to make a children’s book (oop, ack) and an idea for a children’s book-related reality series. I don’t watch any reality TV myself but I’d change my ways in a heartbeat if Rowling for Dollars ever appeared on my DVR schedule.
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Zocalo Public Square has some fantastic preview photos up from our upcoming book STREET KNOWLEDGE, by King Adz. It's the insider's guide to street art, featuring some of the biggest names and rising stars in that world, and full of history, anecdotes and how street art has influenced urban development.
We built the Daily Critter Box and set it outside the Halle cultural Arts Center just like any other newspaper dispenser you'd see on the streets of Downtown Apex..
The box reads:
The Daily Critter Insert coin 25 cents Daily $1.00 Sundays
The Balloon Garden is an interactive project created for the Apex Reunion Exhibit at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex, NC. The garden was made up of about ten helium filled balloons. Inside each balloon was a dollar bill.
Beside the garden was a pair of scissors, tacks and a sign that read:
The Balloon Garden Each balloon contains a dollar. You may: Pop a balloon and take a dollar Cut the string and set a balloon free Or walk away.
Recording artist and environmentalist Mr. Scruff is collaborating with Brighton “reverse graffiti” artist Moose on a series of artworks to highlight the worlds dwindling fish populations, caused by over fishing.
Watch them create an enormous fish–based on an original Scruff illustration and measuring 100m x 35m–situated on a hillside outside Manchester. It’s constructed from pinned fabric which allows the light to pass through so the grass underneath will not be harmed.
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This Friday (22nd August) Ink & Mess will be taking part in the very exciting Artoscopic experiment in Edinburgh.
To see what pitch-black creepy plans I have in store come to St. Leonard's railway tunnel (The Innocent Railway) at 7pm on Friday. The show is on the road (literally, in the tunnel) from 7-9pm.
Be warned, I will be despatching Ink & Mess fiends for the occasion, and these creatures bite!
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Cool!!