“Illustrator and writer Jess Smart Smiley has come up with a special mission for your monster aficionados. The terribly troublesome Rumpus is on the move through each of Jess’s crazily colorful spreads. It’s your young reader’s job to find Rumpus and his eggs, as well as other cleverly hidden objects, before he can cause complete chaos. It’s not an…
(via Colossal) In several wooded areas around the UK, passersby have been stopping for decades (if not centuries), meticulously hammering small denomination coins intro trees. Most of the trees seem to be in and around Cumbria and Portmeirion, and I didn’t find a single example of a tree like this located outside the UK. According to this recent article by…
http://vimeo.com/80012505# Oliver Jeffers–master of children’s books and fine art–tackles a music video. I like it.
Courtesy of McSweeny’s, here are thirteen writing prompts for all you writers out there: THIRTEEN WRITING PROMPTS. BY DAN WIENCEK 1. Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument.2. Write a short scene set at a…
Canadian artist and designer Tobias Wong died in 2011 at the young age of 35, or more specifically, 13,138 days. In tribute, his friend Frederick McSwain created this immense portrait of Wong entitled Die using 13,138 dice as part of the BrokenOff BrokenOff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in NYC in memoriam to the artist during NY Design Week. McSwain via Core77: The idea…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcoUhl1oPM Rebekah Johnson documented her 2013 NaNoWriMo experience–that’s writing 50,000 words of a new novel during the month of November. What follows is 8 minutes of Rebekah battling Tendonitis, late nights/early mornings, illness, a power outage, writing withdrawals, bad hair days, cluttered scenes and more! Related articles Get Cracking On That Novel – NaNoWriMo Is Almost…
I know that tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the states, but I’m too excited to hold this back any longer. Drumroll, please…br-r-r-r-r-r-r…I now have Christmas cards in the shop! Hooray! You know what you should do? You should buy a whole bunch of these cards and send them to everyone you know. Write a lovely note…
TIME FOR A CHANGE I’ve been using wordpress for close to three years now (wow!) and have shared so many things with you, including: my work, drawing/writing techniques, comics, creative processes, tutorials and videos that inspire me, and so much more. The blog has also been a great way for me to keep in touch…