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1. Moon

By: Patrick Girouard, on 1/1/2016
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"who knows if the moon’s a baloon" - E.E. Cummings

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2. Special Person for Special Love

By: ARIS, on 4/17/2015
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JacketFlap tags: illustration, kids, love, children's art, watercolor, balloon, moon, stars, sky, night, paper boat, paper balloon, Add a tag

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3. Catch your Dreams

By: ARIS, on 3/17/2015
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4. Profumi d'estate

By: ARIS, on 3/14/2014
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5. Heart

By: ARIS, on 3/12/2014
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6. The great Oxford World’s Classics debate

By: Kirsty, on 2/26/2014
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JacketFlap tags: Literature, classics, Philosophy, Oxford, balloon, Multimedia, Wuthering Heights, pride and prejudice, austen, OWC, bookshop, Aristotle, Oxford World's Classics, Humanities, Jekyll and Hyde, *Featured, poetic edda, cranford, Images & Slideshows, Classics & Archaeology, a memoir of jane austen, alexandra harris, balloon debate, blackwell's bookshop oxford, nicomachean ethics, oxford world's classics debate, doole, represented, kirsty, norrington, Add a tag

By Kirsty Doole

Last week the Oxford World’s Classics team were at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford to witness the first Oxford World’s Classics debate. Over three days we invited seven academics who had each edited and written introductions and notes for books in the series to give a short, free talk in the shop. This then culminated in an evening event in Blackwell’s famous Norrington Room where we held a balloon debated, chaired by writer and academic Alexandra Harris.

For those unfamiliar with balloon debates, this is the premise: the seven books, represented by their editors, are in a hot air balloon, and the balloon is going down fast. In a bid to climb back up, we’re going to have to throw some books out of the balloon… but which ones? Each editor spoke for five minutes in passionate defence of their titles before the audience voted. The bottom three books were then “thrown overboard”. The remaining four speakers had another three minutes each to further convince the audience, before the final vote was taken.

The seven books in our metaphorical balloon were:

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (represented by Dinah Birch)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (represented by Helen Small)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (represented by Roger Luckhurst)
A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh (represented by Kathryn Sutherland)
The Poetic Edda (represented by Carolyne Larrington)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (represented by Fiona Stafford)
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (represented by Lesley Brown)

So who was saved? Find out in our slideshow of pictures from the event below:

The speakers

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All seven speakers plus chair, Alexandra Harris, prepare for the debate.
Alexandra Harris

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Writer and academic Alexandra Harris chaired the event.
A selection of OWCs

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Just a few of the OWCs on sale during the event.
Dinah Birch on Cranford

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Professor Dinah Birch defends Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Helen Small on Wuthering Heights

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Professor Helen Small makes a plea to the audience to save Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
Roger Luckhurst on Jekyll and Hyde

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Professor Roger Luckhurst makes the case for saving the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Kathryn Sutherland on A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Professor Kathryn Sutherland argues in favour of saving A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew, J. E. Austen-Leigh.
Austen with meat cleaver

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Kathryn Sutherland tries to boost her cause by bringing this mascot: Jane Austen holding a meat cleaver.
OWCs on the shelves

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Look at all our beautiful books!
Carolyne Larrington on The Poetic Edda

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Doing her bit for Old Norse, Dr Carolyne Larrington represents The Poetic Edda.
Fiona Stafford on Pride and Prejudice

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Would Professor Fiona Stafford succeed in saving Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Lesley Brown on The Nicomachean Ethics

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In the face of stiff literary competition, Lesley Brown strikes a blow for philosophy with a passionate defence of Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics.
Joint winner! The Poetic Edda

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At the end of the debate we actually had a tie. Joint winners were The Poetic Edda and...
Joint winner! The Nicomachean Ethics

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...The Nicomachean Ethics! Well done Carolyne and Lesley!

Kirsty Doole is Publicity Manager for Oxford World’s Classics.

For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. You can follow Oxford World’s Classics on Twitter, Facebook, or here on the OUPblog. Subscribe to only Oxford World’s Classics articles on the OUPblog via email or RSS.

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Image credits: All photos by Kirsty Doole

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Earlier this summer Jeff Kinney and his trusted team ( Charles Kochman, Jason Wells and myself ) took a trip to the Macy's Studios just over the Hudson river in New Jersey. Here they make all the floats and balloons that are seen in the parade Thanksgiving morning. It was like visiting Santa's workshop.

Jeff Kinney and team arrive at the Macy's Studio in New Jersey

Who knew the balloons started out as clay sculptures?
This was the first time Jeff was seeing his creation, Greg Heffley in 3D

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11. Polar Bear Fair

By: Gigi Moore, on 8/26/2010
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12. Helping Children with Selective Mutism: Breathing and Muscle Relaxation

By: Lauren, on 6/21/2010
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Christopher A. Kearney is a Professor of Psychology and Director of UNLV Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His new book, Helping Children with Selective Mutism and their Parents, provides information that can help readers better understand and combat selective mutism. In the excerpt below, Kearney provides some techniques to help children cope with their anxiety about speaking.

Breathing

A simple way to help children reduce physical feelings of distress is to teach them to breathe correctly. Many children experience shortness of breath, breathe shallowly, or hyperventilate when upset. Doing so actually makes the feeling of anxiety worse, so helping a child regulate breathing is important. Have the child sit before you in a comfortable position. Then ask the child to breathe in slowly through the nose (with mouth closed) and breathe out slowly though the mouth. As the child does so, encourage him to breathe deeply into the diaphragm (between the abdomen and chest and just below the rib cage.) The child may need to push two fingers into the diaphragm to experience the sensation of a full, deep breathe. The child can then breathe slowly out of his mouth. Parents may even join the process to help their child practice at home.

For younger children such as Austin[age 6], you may wish to create an image during the breathing technique. Austin could imagine blowing up a tire or pretend he is a large, floating balloon. As Austin breathes in, he can imagine filling up with fuel and energy. As he breathes out, he can imagine losing fuel and energy (or tension). The child must come to understand the difference between feeling tense when the lungs are full of air and feeling more relaxed after breathing out. The following breathing script adapted from Kearney and Albano (2007) may be helpful:

Pretend you are a hot air balloon. When you breathe in, you are filling the balloon with air so it can go anywhere you want. Breathe in through your nose like this (show for your child). Breathe slowly and deeply – try to breathe in a lot of air! Now breathe out slowly through your mouth like air leaving a balloon. Count slowly in your head as you breathe out…1…2…3…4…5. Let’s try this again (practice at least three times).

Key advantages of the breathing method are its ease, brevity, and portability. The child can use this method in different stressful situations and usually without drawing the attention of others. I recommend that a child practice this breathing method at least three times per day for a few minutes at a time. In addition, the child should practice in the morning before school and during particularly stressful times at school. Some children benefit as well by practicing this technique whenever they are around other people and an expectation for potentially speaking is present. For example, a child could use the breathing technique prior to and during a church service.

Muscle Relaxation

Another method of helping a child reduce physical feelings of anxiety is progressive muscle relation (PMR). Youths such as Austin are usually quite tense in different areas of their body, especially in the shoulders, face, and stomach. Different methods of muscle relation are available, but a preferred one is a tension-release method in which a child physically tenses, holds, and then releases a specific muscle group. For example, a child may ball his hand into a fist, squeeze as tightly as possible and hold the tension for 10 seconds, and then suddenly release the grip (try it). When this is done two or thr

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13. Balloons

By: ARIS, on 3/31/2010
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14. The Year of the Tiger

By: Dayle's Painted Diary-Dayle Dodwell, on 1/20/2010
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Happy new year. The year of the tiger is about to begin and he is flying in arriving by balloon. This is also a change of medium for me this was done in the computer.

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15. On the Balloon Side Show, The Infotaining Media, and Representative Democracy

By: Rebecca, on 10/20/2009
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Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com. In the article below he argues that the coverage of Balloon-Boy wasn’t all bad. See his previous OUPblogs here.

Last week, America came to a stand-still as we stood enraptured by television images of a runaway balloon carrying, so we thought, a six-year-old boy. Flimsy as the silver contraption appeared, we gladly suspended all disbelief that the balloon contained enough helium to be carrying a boy within so we could enjoy the side show. (Just as we did for Pixar’s animated movie, “Up,” which featured an old man who used balloons to move his house to a South American paradise.) So for almost two hours, most of the major news networks displaced all coverage of “hard” news to cover what Latimer County Sheriff Jim Alderman has now concluded to be a “publicity stunt.” And I’m going to argue that this was not a bad thing.

As the Balloon Boy story continued to dominate the weekend news cycle, the president and his advisers continued to deliberate on whether or not to send more troops into Afghanistan, and Senators worked behind the scenes to reconcile two different bills on healthcare. So let it be said that our “watchdog” media will switch its attention as soon as it is thrown an infotaining bone. But this is not necessarily a bad thing as long as we are clear-eyed about the media’s priorities. Instead, I think there is something strangely comforting that we allow ourselves such trivial pleasures. If we do not need an ever-vigilant watchdog, it is because we believe – by revealed preference – that government will mind government’s business, and we can tend to our own. Better no coverage of “hard” news than bad coverage, I say.

And this is exactly what the media did at least momentarily last week even as the President and Congress debated world and country-changing policies. Instead of another round of predictable punditry, or fact-checking of the CBO’s estimates of heath-care reform, we were fed images of a helium-filled balloon shaped like a UFO traversing the Colorado landscape. As we are with car chases, we, and therefore the media, were drawn to the balloon chase like flies are drawn to a light. We weren’t so much interested in the outcome – indeed knowledge of the outcome would have waken us up from our trance – as we were in the process, which was visually enrapturing.

For over a year we have watched a presidential campaign turn into a permanent campaign, and the American public is fatigued. We see this in Barack Obama’s dwindling approval numbers; and we also see it in our captivation by a drifting balloon. We are tired, and we are withdrawing from the public political sphere. The infotaining media detected this, and gave us a welcome reprieve.

And perhaps this is as it should be. Ours is a representative, and not a direct democracy. We vote and delegate; they, the elected officials, decide. The constitutional calendar is very clear that the people speak only every 2, 4, and 6 years. As far as the US constitution is concerned, our voices do not matter when we speak at any other time at the federal level. (Though our voices do matter at the state level where such devices as recall and refederanda are sanctioned by state constitutions.) If we didn’t believe this, than we have to deal with the conundrum that if last year’s elections were held in the second week of September, John McCain would have won. Clearly then, what you and I believed on November 4, 2008 matters much more than what you and I believe in October, 2009 (or September, 2008). Opinion polls may capture majority or minority sentiment at any moment in time, but these sentiments (should) have no import on constitutionally sanctioned officers exercising their delegated powers.

The deliberation of troop increases and health-care reform involve complex proceedings in closed-door war room meetings and conference committees reconciling details many Americans know and care little about. Such decisions make bad television, so maybe we shouldn’t try to force a message into an unreceptive genre lest we alter the message. Maybe those we put in charge should simply be let alone to do their job, for our constitution envisioned and sanctioned a low-effort, Rip Van Winkle approach to citizen participation. Sometimes we care a lot and we participate, but other times we tune out; and perhaps that is just as it should be. Last week, as we sat enraptured by the alleged antics of Balloon Boy, we embraced the implicit satisfactions of a representative democracy.

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16. Balloon Boy

By: tartan baffies, on 10/20/2009
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A quick & simple animation inspired by the recent news story 'Balloon Boy'.

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17. Aris bookmark

By: ARIS BLOG, on 1/10/2009
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18. Speed maybe?

By: Dot, on 12/3/2008
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I'm not sure a balloon is fast enough to get Santa to all his destinations. Reindeer might be speedier! Well, I did this for IF: Balloon this week, but I figured I could make it work here too.

And since we've had the Speed challenge for a while on Monday Artday, I figured some of you might want another challenge, so stop by my blog and enter our holiday card challenge...!

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19. Illustration Friday - Balloon

By: Kathy Hare , on 12/2/2008
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Lisa M Griffin said, on 12/2/2008 1:07:00 PM

striking! i love the contrast in this piece... not only with the balloon, but the buildings as well. great submission.

Carmen Saldaña said, on 12/2/2008 1:34:00 PM

Beautiful, as all your work. The red balloon looks amazing above the grey background.

Vanessa Brantley Newton said, on 12/2/2008 1:36:00 PM

OOOOH but you've done it again!!! This is simply magical. I love the use of color and texture! The momo thing really works here!!! Excellent again Kathy!!!

marina _ tsu-mina said, on 12/2/2008 2:11:00 PM

Lovely and sweet...nice style!

sdzsmith said, on 12/2/2008 4:51:00 PM

Hi -

Love the black and white with the shot of red! It reminds me of that older French film "The Red Balloon." It seems we watched that every year in elementary school - must've been the only film in the library.

Anyway, great idea once again.

kathy hare said, on 12/2/2008 5:12:00 PM

Diane,
I was thinking of that film when I decided to use black and white with just the red of the balloon.. I have portrayed the balloon with a note attached to it because the children of one of my closest friends, who has passed away, release balloons into the sky with messages attached for her..

Anish Daolagupu said, on 12/2/2008 5:24:00 PM

the starkness/(hardness?) of the buildings and the softness of the girl and the balloon... beautiful...

i like the slight redness of the cheeks... leetal detail... i don't know if anyone's noticed it... :P

Alicia Padrón said, on 12/2/2008 5:38:00 PM

This is very inspiring and beautiful Kathy!! :o)

Edrian Thomidis said, on 12/2/2008 6:13:00 PM

So beautiful and full of emotion and hope. Really love the note attached to the balloon. Wonderful message

Bella Sinclair said, on 12/2/2008 6:18:00 PM

Wow, beautiful and emotional. You are amazing.

Becky said, on 12/2/2008 7:29:00 PM

Love it!!

I like the idea of releasing a balloon with a message attached - very symbolic.

cathleen said, on 12/2/2008 8:25:00 PM

Oh funny! It's similar to mine.

You've done a great job. I find myself looking at yours weekly.

Nice work!

yoon see said, on 12/2/2008 10:20:00 PM

This is an usual great piece, with black & white emphasis and a dot of colour on the ballooon to show a magical shot here!
How clever!
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Roberta said, on 12/3/2008 1:33:00 AM

It's lovely... It makes me pause and contemplate...

jazzlamb said, on 12/3/2008 3:45:00 AM

I really appreciate the very decision of you having only the balloon colored.It works brilliantly.Also I guess since the buildings are so bare and look abandoned,I am constantly forced to look at the ballon as a sign of life, perhaps.wonderful.

Jess said, on 12/3/2008 3:56:00 AM

I love this Kathy! The contrast between the geometric buildings and the round balloon works so well :) Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog, I felt my blue background was making me feel even colder!x

La Señorita Pil said, on 12/3/2008 3:59:00 AM

wow Kate this is so wonderfull, the way you work is simple and perfect colors, love it!

Tessa said, on 12/3/2008 4:42:00 AM

There is something so whimsical, so poignant and so utterly compelling about the solitary little girl and her red balloon. What a truly beautiful illo!

Vanessa Moreira said, on 12/3/2008 6:35:00 AM

I like it!

Tony Sarrecchia... said, on 12/3/2008 8:53:00 AM

Very nice. This reminds me of a movie we used to watch in grammar school.

Anna said, on 12/3/2008 9:37:00 AM

I love the grey and red contrast Kathy... always very poetic, makes me think of the little girl in Schindler's List. How sweet yet sad that your late friend's children send her balloons, perhaps she is the girl in the building awaiting the message they send?

theartofpuro said, on 12/3/2008 10:38:00 AM

Lovely and magical,love the colour contrast

Kimberly said, on 12/3/2008 10:40:00 AM

You work is AWESOME!!!

Kimberly

get zapped said, on 12/3/2008 11:19:00 AM

Poignant piece. Excellent use of color and composition.

linda sarah said, on 12/3/2008 12:28:00 PM

this is just so very beautiful - and dreamy and poetic - wonderful work:-)

Christina Silverio said, on 12/3/2008 4:28:00 PM

So stark and beautiful! There seems to be such hope on her face. :)

Chris Kennett said, on 12/3/2008 4:46:00 PM

I love the sense of wanting to escape in this piece, although the girl does semm quite content. Very sweet. Thanks for the comment too btw.

Kate said, on 12/3/2008 8:13:00 PM

Nice. Seems to tell a story.

Eric Barclay said, on 12/3/2008 8:30:00 PM

Wonderful illustration-- it's sad, happy, and hopeful all at the same time. Great story telling and great use of color!

INDIGENE said, on 12/3/2008 8:40:00 PM

I am a fanatical fan of black and white with color added, to make them both stand out. I find that closer attention is paid to a piece such as this. It also begs for the story behind it! I love coming to see what you come up with every week and I am never disappointed and always inspired! Fabulous, just fabulous!

Sara Butcher said, on 12/3/2008 9:41:00 PM

{slaps hands down} I think I'm just for a loss of words. Your work is just so stunning. It really gets you thinking about the story behind the image. Do you create stories in your head as you draw? Because it sure does look like it. Whats so fantastic about this piece is you could use it in children's books, but also for a magazine article. True illustration Kathy, beautiful!

Juan said, on 12/4/2008 7:52:00 AM

Great piece Kathy! Beautifully done.

flower girl said, on 12/4/2008 8:30:00 AM

Oh this one is really beautiful!! love the combination of black and white with colours!! =)

Mark Cavell said, on 12/4/2008 9:06:00 AM

Wonderfully melancholy but equally uplifting.
Love it!

Dot said, on 12/4/2008 10:01:00 AM

I love your use of color here. Fabulous job.

Bee said, on 12/4/2008 3:54:00 PM

Great image. The stark backdrop with a solitary character works really well with the flash of colour from the balloon. Very atmospheric.

Katie said, on 12/4/2008 7:14:00 PM

I love your illustration with the grayscale and the red balloon. As if her world is gloomy without her balloon. Very wonderful.

sketched out said, on 12/4/2008 8:19:00 PM

Poignant, yet uplifting. How do yo do it!? Also love the shock of red against the grayscale. Simply magical!

froggie said, on 12/4/2008 9:34:00 PM

stunning, kathy. a wonderful piece! :)

rebecca woodward said, on 12/4/2008 10:49:00 PM

What an awesome piece! The shapes and colors contrast really makes this pop! no pun intended there...
Another fab IF submission from you :)

Cock Yer Doodle said, on 12/5/2008 5:56:00 AM

I wonder what's written on the tag! Another beautiful illustration. :)

Christina said, on 12/5/2008 7:47:00 AM

beautiful work

Rick said, on 12/5/2008 2:50:00 PM

She lost the one colorful object in her world. How sad is that?

Tiddly Inks said, on 12/6/2008 6:49:00 PM

My favorite color combination! :)
Lovely all together.

nessadee said, on 12/8/2008 7:54:00 AM

This is beautiful Kathy! It's funny, I had the same idea for color combination, but I didn't have time to do it.

I love your perspective in this one!

Alicia Padrón said, on 12/8/2008 12:36:00 PM

I have an award for you Kathy!! :o)

kathy hare said, on 12/11/2008 7:17:00 AM

Thankyou all for your comments, I really do appreciate them so much.. :)

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20. a little like love

By: linda sarah goldman, on 12/1/2008
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Posted in flying, giraffe, love, one-tooth dog, stars, winter

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21. balloon part 2

By: josh pincus is crying, on 11/30/2008
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The challenge word this week on another illustration blog is "balloon".

This is the second of two illustrations I did for the topic. Here is the first.

We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky

On Thanksgiving Day 1997, Kathleen Caronna was watching annual Macy's Parade at 72nd St. and Central Park West alongside her husband and her infant son. In 40 miles-per-hour winds, handlers marching in the parade lost control of the six-story high Cat in the Hat balloon. The errant balloon crashed into a streetlamp. A piece of the streetlamp broke off and struck Ms. Caronna in the head, knocking her unconscious. Caronna was in a coma for 22 days after emergency surgery. She suffered skull fractures, brain damage and partial loss of vision. She filed a $395 million lawsuit against the city, Macy's and the lamppost manufacturer. In 2001, she settled for an undisclosed amount.

On October 11, 2006, a Cirrus SR20 plane piloted by New York Yankees' pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into the Belaire Apartments at E. 72nd Street on New York City's Upper East Side. Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger were both killed. Their plane crashed into Kathleen Coronna's bedroom.

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22. Illustration Friday - Balloon

By: Sara, on 11/29/2008
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23. Balloon for IF

By: ARIS BLOG, on 11/29/2008
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Fourborne said, on 11/29/2008 7:29:00 PM

Lovely

flower girl said, on 11/29/2008 9:09:00 PM

Hi, your style is so lovely!! I love this little girl runnig for her balloon.reminds me myself when I was a lil girl too!! and I love your banner as well. good luck =)

INDIGENE said, on 11/29/2008 10:58:00 PM

Whimsical and full of joy...lovely!

mitchowl said, on 11/29/2008 11:17:00 PM

You line is great. I love the girl. And your color.

Bambinoboom said, on 11/30/2008 8:06:00 AM

great and beautiful draw!!
i like your style
ciaooo

ARIS BLOG said, on 11/30/2008 9:05:00 AM

Thanks to all of you for visiting my blog and for so great compliments!
Bye

Vhrsti said, on 11/30/2008 11:37:00 AM

Perfect as always!

Chiara said, on 11/30/2008 3:10:00 PM

La tua Aris si vestirà presto da Babbo Natale? ;-)

ARIS BLOG said, on 11/30/2008 3:33:00 PM

Certo :)
senza la barba però ;)
Devi sapere che casa mia fra non molto sembrerà la casa di Babbo Natale, decorazioni ovunque, perfino in bagno!
mi sto divertendo a dipingere qualche aris natalizia su legno...
appena possibile metto le foto sul blog
credo che poi in settimana andrò a comprare colori per ceramica, di quelli che si fissano nel forno domestico...e tazze e tazzine bianche all'ikea
...spero di trovare i colori!!!
L'ispirazione mi è venuta dalle tue foto di cucina :) soprattutto quel barattolino giallo con l'ape...me ne sono davvero invaghita!!!!

Anonymous said, on 11/30/2008 4:14:00 PM

Ho sbagliato Aris blog?
Sembra di essere da un'altra parte del mondo, beata te che sai aprire le porte dell'universo intero!
Io riesco a malapena ad aprire la porta di casa mia (e spesso ne rimango prigioniero!).
Un abbraccino timido, timido...

il viandante di Treppio

ARIS BLOG said, on 11/30/2008 4:20:00 PM

No non hai sbagliato!!!
Bello il mondo vero? E poi non imprigiona!!
Mi chiedo: ma che ci faccio ancora in Italia?!?
E mi sa che anche tu te lo chiedi :)...visto che ti fai chiamare viandante...
Ricambio l'abbraccino
See You! ;)

lillo said, on 12/1/2008 3:33:00 AM

beh, qui il mondo pare ci stia tutto...

sai che fino a poco tempo fa anch'io mi vestivo da babbo natale la notte della vigilia per portare i regali ai bambini? eravamo in due, io e un mio amico, era divertente, e freddissimo!!! tutta la notte con la tutina rossa e la barba bianca! ma come farà mai quello vero?

a volte anch'io penso che sarebbe meglio andarsene, ma dove? ultimamente sogno molto la spagna... ma chi vive lì mi dice, lascia perdere, non vale la pena, non è bello come credi...

o berlino, la città degli artisti?

ma forse non bisogna interrogarsi troppo, forse...

forse l'unica domanda seria non è chiedersi dove voglio essere, ma cosa voglio fare...

e io voglio solo perdermi...

riesci a capirmi?

per te said, on 12/1/2008 8:04:00 AM

perdersi... è solo un attimo, lillo! l'impresa è ritrovarsi...e tu ami le missioni difficili,vero?

ARIS BLOG said, on 12/1/2008 9:26:00 AM

In effetti anche io penso che il vero problema sia proprio ritrovarsi...
a volte si fa fatica a riconoscersi in noi stessi...

Bella Sinclair said, on 12/1/2008 10:33:00 PM

Beautiful! I think she's doing a figure skating dance with a lovely, graceful partner. Really fantastic work.

Soledad Cespedes said, on 12/2/2008 1:02:00 PM

This is nice...

Vanessa Brantley Newton said, on 12/2/2008 2:55:00 PM

What a sweet illo. I really like the style and colors you used here. great illustration work.

Juan said, on 12/2/2008 3:16:00 PM

Lovely! I really like your watercolor style!

Katie said, on 12/3/2008 9:48:00 AM

Beautiful watercolor. So well wonderful. Love the rich colors.

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24. balloon

By: josh pincus is crying, on 11/29/2008
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This week's challenge word on another illustration blog is "balloon".

Panic bells, it's red alert. There's something here from somewhere else.

Just prior to turning nineteen, I went to Walt Disney World with three of my friends. This was my first vacation without my parents. I told about this trip in a previous blog. My first day in Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom was great. After spending a fun but exhausting day, my friends and I headed back to our hotel. Somnolent, we slogged the length of the sparsely-lit Main Street USA towards the Monorail that would take us to the parking lot. Just before we exited, I purchased a Mickey Mouse-head balloon for fifty cents (remember, this was 1980). There I was, eighteen-years old, springing toward the Monorail with a balloon string in my fist and a wide grin across my face.
We waited on the platform, in the thick and shifting throng, for the next Monorail to arrive. The sleek transport snaked into the station. It came to a silent stop and the hydraulic doors opened with a hiss. The individual cabins were fitted with futuristic bench seats, upholstered in undentable teal plastic. They were not unlike the back seat of my father's 1968 Dodge Dart. They seated approximately ten passengers. My friends, my balloon and I chose an empty cabin and slid across the seat to accommodate everyone. A young couple and their son joined our cabin and occupied the bench seat opposite us. The boy was about nine or ten and he had a balloon, too. The balloon looked more age appropriate for him than it did me.
The doors to the Monorail shushed back into place and we began moving. I sat, holding my balloon and smiled at the young boy across from me as he held his balloon. Suddenly, without warning, his balloon burst. BANG! It hadn't touched anything. It hadn't bumped the low ceiling. It just burst- BANG! We were all startled, but even more so, when the boy spontaneously erupted into a spewing fountain of inconsolable cries and tears. His parents tried unsuccessfully to comfort him. Instantly, I spoke up and offered my balloon to the boy. "Here", I said, "you can have mine." His parents looked at me with expressions of relief and gratitude as I relinquished my balloon. His mom wrapped one arm around the boy's shoulders and gestured to me with her other arm—her hand palm up and extended in my direction. "What do you say to the nice man?", she prompted her son. The boy looked up at the balloon. Then, he looked, expressionless, at me.
"I wanted a red one.", he said.

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25. IF- "Balloon"

By: Carrie Anne, on 11/28/2008
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"Fly Away!"

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