The above link leads to a wonderful little piece by Studiocanoe.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
W. Heath Robinson: Crazy Contraptions & Lavish Illustrations
This is an Abe Books introduction to the art of W. Heath Robinson. I have a collection of Hans Christian Anderson stories which he illustrated and his work is incredibly beautiful. I have a special fondness for his black and white work. Check him out - a google images search will provide plenty for you to admire.
W. Heath Robinson: Crazy Contraptions & Lavish Illustrations
This is an Abe Books introduction to the art of W. Heath Robinson. I have a collection of Hans Christian Anderson stories which he illustrated and his work is incredibly beautiful. I have a special fondness for his black and white work. Check him out - a google images search will provide plenty for you to admire.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Laurel and Hardy Way Out West Dance Flash Mob
This is a flash mob carried out by Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins on behalf of the 8 and a Half Foundation - which I think also involved a mobile cinema travelling around rural areas to stage mini film festivals. I would have loved to be part of this flash mob....
And this is Laurel and Hardy showing us how it's done....
And this is Laurel and Hardy showing us how it's done....
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Angela Carter Illustration Competition
There was an illustration competition this year to create pieces based on Angela Carter's collection of short stories in The Bloody Chamber.
I love this book of short stories.
I was in high school when I read it and I was inspired to create a piece for my end of year art project. It was a book which one person held open while someone else took the ribbon at the end of page and walked backwards - it was one long piece of paper folded many times, so the story unfurled and the illustrations revealed a condensed version of the story The Company of Wolves.
This is the link showing the winning illustration entries (there are some very nice pieces here):
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Charity Shop Book Shopping and Sesame Street: News Flash - Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe
So my I cannot resist going into charity shops with my four year old. Sometimes you find real gems - especially in the book sections. This was our most recent haul, setting me back all of two euros!
Forgive my terrible photograph, but this is My Naughty Little Sister, by Dorothy Edwards. I had heard of this series of books, but didn't read them myself until now. My four year old loves them and so do I. The stories are well written, witty - something for the parents and the child to laugh about, which is always good - and the stories sound authentic to the child, getting up to mischief, tantrums, etc. These stories are more than 50 years old but age has not withered them...
The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden. Written in the 1940's it tells the tale of a family of dolls who long to move out of their shoe box and into a proper doll's house. Their dreams come true but then Marchpane arrives - a beautiful, but cruel, doll who plans on taking over the dream house...! We read the first chapter of this at bedtime tonight - so far so good!
This is part of the Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel. A lot of his stories were illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Haven't started in on these yet, but his previous stories are great - amiable nonsense about an owl who thinks the moon is following him, who feels sorry for the cold winter and opens his front door to let it in to warm itself by the fire (he lives to regret this decision...)
Another series by Arnold Lobel.
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll, by Edward and Aingelda Ardizzone. We already have this in an anthology of childrens stories. It's about a tiny doll abandoned in a shop freezer and the adventures she has there (stacks of frozen food are like skyscrapers to her) until she is finally rescued by a little girl. It's one of our favourites.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Mo Willems reads We Are in a Book!
This is a piece about Mo Willems 2010 "We Are In A Book".
Mo Willems is great, as anyone who's read his Pigeon Series or Knuffle Bunny stories will testify.
He also works on Sesame Street so that would make him all right in my book anyway.
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