Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83.
The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator.
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*sigh* Not a great way to start out the morning.
*le sigh*
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Too Cool for Skool
This Bear Flag Restoration/California Republic Dude Was Just Too “I Did Not Even Look in the Mirror Before Walkin’ Out the Door” Cool: Flea Market. Davis, 04-29-12.
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I wholeheartedly agree.
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A quick look around the LHC
Loser AND winner in ultra-dark “Yogi Bear” parody case? Warner Bros.
Credit where credit’s due: Warner Bros. could’ve totally ripped apart Edmund Earle for creating this spot-on (and very dark) parody of the much-derided “Yogi Bear” film that’s coming out this week. But instead, the company’s letting Earle keep it up. There might be some back-end benefit for the Warners, anyway – the parody (which looks like the “Yogi Bear” film, almost too closely) riffs on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” That film, an Oscar-nominated flick from 2007, only made back half of its budget, so it could stand to benefit from the fresh notoriety. And guess who distributed that flick? That’s right. Warner Bros. source
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C-SPAN: President Obama at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
ICYMI, we heard this was pretty cool.
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HTML5[!!!] video of the Pixel Mould Machine in action via Julian Bond’s Vimeo page.
Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. Called Pixel Mould, the machine produces vessels using a single mould made up of over 1300 individual plaster sticks. The sticks can be individually reconfigured to create unique moulds. Clay is poured into the mould, fired and glazed to create the final product. The vases are created using a traditional slip casting technique, which usually uses fixed moulds, however this machine allows users to create their own one-off designs. The machine is designed to engage with the user allowing them to understand the form they are creating.
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