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Samuel Hudson’s first trip to the lake.

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:57:33 -0700

Samuel Hudson’s first trip to the lake.

vizualize: The Internet Map Russian data-visualisation designer...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:47:09 -0700

The Internet Map

Russian data-visualisation designer Ruslan Enikeev has mapped websites according to levels of activity and the other sites visited by their users.

via The Guardian

This is eerily and perhaps appropriately similar to the game Osmos, in which large blobs can swallow other blobs to become the biggest.

Jonathan

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:10:00 -0700

Jonathan

Finnegan

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:09:00 -0700

Finnegan

Photo

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:18:03 -0700

Hog Bay Software: Screenplay WriteRoom 3 for OS X Theme

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:23:49 -0700

Hog Bay Software: Screenplay WriteRoom 3 for OS X Theme:

The good folks at Hog Bay Software posted my Writeroom theme for screenwriters. How cool of them! (Thanks Jesse & Grey.)

hogbaysoftware:

“Here’s a theme I threw together for that “screenplay” look. It’s meant to be used with Courier. While I’m not usually a fan of this kinda faux dimensional thing, this actually serves bit of a purpose for screenwriters: it gives you a sense of how much of what you’re writing fills a page…

dallasclayton: Miss Haviland: Is there any point that you would...

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:35:03 -0700

dallasclayton:

Miss Haviland: Is there any point that you would like to make, aside from the questions that have been brought up to you before and which you’ve answered again tonight?

Mr. Sendak: I love my work very much, it means everything to me. I would like to see a time when children’s books were not segregated from adult books, a time when people didn’t think of children’s books as a minor art form, a little Peterpanville, a cutsey-darling place where you could Have Fun, Laugh Your Head Off. I know so many adult writers whom I would happily chop into pieces, who say, “Well I think I’ll take a moment and sit down and knock off a kiddy book! It looks like so much fun, it’s obviously easy…” And, of course, they write a lousy book!

It would be so much better if everyone felt that children’s books are for everybody, that we simply write books, that we are a community of writers and artists, that we are all seriously involved in the business of writing. And if everyone felt that writing for children is a serious business, perhaps even more serious than a lot of other forms of writing, and if when such books are reviewed and discussed, they were discussed on this serious level, and that we would be taken seriously as artists.

I would like to do away with the division into age categories of children over here and adults over there, which is confusing to me and I think probably confusing to children. It’s very confusing to many people who don’t even know how to buy a children’s book. I think if I have any particular hope it’s this: that we all should simply be artists and just write books and stop pretending that there is such a thing as being able to sit down and write a book for a child: it is quite impossible. One simply writes books.

– Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland (a public interview at the Library of Congress held in 1971)

Maurice Sendak, a great inspiration… you will be missed.

theatlantic: “This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his...

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:32:34 -0700

theatlantic:

“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)

"And what a play it had been! Drowsy animals, snug in their holes while wind and rain were battering..."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:08:03 -0700

“And what a play it had been! Drowsy animals, snug in their holes while wind and rain were battering at their doors, recalled still keen mornings, an hour before sunrise, when the white mist, as yet undispersed, clung closely along the surface of the water; then the shock of the early plunge, the scamper along the bank, and the radiant transformation of earth, air, and water, when suddenly the sun was with them again, and grey was gold and colour was born and sprang out of the earth once more. They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow cornfields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.”

- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:32:00 -0700

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Saturday Night

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:40:14 -0700

Me: (dancing)
Finn: Do you hear music?
Me: (still dancing) In my head.
Finn: There's no music in there.

Taken with instagram

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:11:01 -0700

Taken with instagram

Nomenclature

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:05:09 -0800

Finn: Oh. The hugest phone with the buttons that you work on. I can't remember what's that's called.
Kristina: A computer?
Finn: Oh yeah. A computer.

Whew. That was close.

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:39:49 -0800

Whew. That was close.

Car conversation

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:55 -0800

Me: (Singing) …Take a look at the five and ten. It's glistening once again. With bah duh dah dee blah blah blah…
Finn: Dad! Sh! You'll scare the snow away.

welovestopmotion: Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam by Rob...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:30:17 -0800

welovestopmotion:

Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam by Rob Whitworth

Holy…

Car Conversations Part 2

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:21:32 -0800

Me: (Singing) I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.
Finn: And I see bricks.
Jon: Donut!

pondersomething: You do not have patience like Miguel Endara...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:21:19 -0800

pondersomething:

You do not have patience like Miguel Endara has patience.

Wow.

A typical ride home

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:21:02 -0800

Jonathan: Moon! I see moon!
Me: (Singing) When the mooon hiiits your eye like a biiig pizza pie that's amore!
Finnegan: A MOONRAY?!
Me: No, amore.
Finnegan: Yay! Stop singing right now.
Jonathan: Moon!

Siri: What can I help you with?

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:25:17 -0800

Siri: What can I help you with?
Me: Call me Gus.
Siri: From now on, I'll call you 'Gas'. OK?
Me: No, Gus.
Siri: OK.
Me: Call me Gus.
Siri: From now on, I'll call you 'Gas'. OK?
Me: No, it's not okay.
Siri: OK.
Me: Call me dude.
Siri: From now on, I'll call you 'Dude'. OK?
Me: Call me Almighty Ruler.
Siri: From now on, I'll call you 'Almighty Ruler'. OK?
Me: Yes.
Siri: OK, Almighty Ruler, what's next?