“Colour Pencils” by Jonna Pohjalainen on environmentalart.net via Handmade Charlotte.
This cheers me up immensely.
Archive for August, 2012
color pencils
August 30, 2012paper friends
August 30, 2012
Libro de poemas de Carlos Ramos | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
I like the strange collages by Blanca Helga. There is a lot more of her work to see on her website and also on Flickr. She sells her Paper Friends on Etsy.
artful doodles
August 28, 2012
ingriddijkers.blogspot.co.at
Apparently doodling is evolving into a meditation practice called zentangle.
several short sentences about writing
August 27, 2012
apples and oranges
August 27, 2012
everything’s going to be okay
August 26, 2012
oh yeah!
August 25, 2012
a river of words
August 24, 2012
Poetry River Craft | Made by Joel.
And many more lovely and inspiring ideas for making simple toys, printables and more by Joel.
a book of cards
August 23, 2012
“The Shufflebook … was sold at Museum of Modern Art’s store as a sort of (unbound) children’s book. The reader/storyteller is instructed to deal the cards that featured large illustrations and either a verb phrase (e.g., “slipped,” “got kissed”) or a noun phrase (e.g., “and my uncle”, “and 5 cows”). … The total number of the cards is 104.
The opening and closing sentence of the text on one special card says: “This is an anything book.” The text on the cover states: “There are over a million stories in this box. Shuffle the pages, lay them down and make your own story happen.” The text segments are written to combine into one very long (possibly run-on) sentence or several sentences. There is no text with capital letters and no punctuation. There are also 2 special pages with empty lines where the “storyteller” can write additional text …”
This quote and more about shuffle literature from electronicbookreview.com
via Grand Text Auto
a bag of nouns
August 22, 2012
one more book spine poem
August 21, 2012
stitches
August 21, 2012
more by Lauren DiCioccio via Obsolete Embroidery / Handmade Charlotte.
handstitched postcard
August 20, 2012
cross-stitched books
August 19, 2012
mr printable
August 18, 2012
Printable Quotes Posters | Mr Printables.
Mr Printable offers a lovely range of mostly free (!) printable materials for children, flash cards, alphabet posters, maps. games, coloring pages, posters, paper dolls, and a small printable world to make out of paper. Very nicely designed and some very original ideas. I like these two posters too.
nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia
August 17, 2012
Hey, I did not know that there used to be a superhero, ahem, space ranger called Rocky Jones with television show, comics, merchandizing and all. Makes me proud to be a Jones myself. :-)
Check out the squeaky clean Space Ranger Code: I pledge
- to obey my parents at all times
- to be kind an courteous to all
- to be brave in the course of freedom, to help the weak
- to obey the law at all times
- to grow up clean in mind, strong in body
Children actually bought this? How times have changed.
Which reminds me of the conference “Flashbacks – nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia” coming up on 13-14 September 2012 in Basel, Switzerland. The preliminary program is here http://flashbacks2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/flashbacks_program3.pdf*
book paradise
August 16, 2012
The Art of Reading by Kay Kremerskothen
“Massimo Bartolini’s impressive green outdoor library titled Bookyard was constructed by the artist in the idyllic vineyard of St. Peter’s Abbey in the Belgian town of Ghent. It is part of the Track art festival, and visitors are invited to take a book along in exchange for a small donation.” The first image and quote were taken from here : The Art of Reading by Kay Kremerskothen. More pictures here: Bookyard
Shame about the fact that rain and snow usually do not go well together with books. This would be my idea of paradise, a library in the middle of an orchard.
book shelter
August 15, 2012
The Bibliobarn’s Bibliobargains!
I love this idea. In the small village in Lower Austria where I like to spend the summer, there is a small disused bus shelter made of wood. I have been wondering if it could be turned into something like that – a reading shelter for the village kids, a stop for book crossing. But then it only makes sense if people use it. And that would mean more people passing through, but I like that it is so quiet here. And who would make sure it is not vandalized? Hmmm.
tree of books
August 15, 2012
our house
August 14, 2012
Installation Art by Leandro Erlich.
No words needed here, just people interacting with this installation. It would be great to have something like this in a playground. Figure out how it is done here at Black*Eiffel.
hand lettering
August 13, 2012
Here is another creative project for children, creating illustrations fo all the letters of the alphabet, with handprints. The thumbnails are a bit small but if you click on the image they will enlarge a little bit more.
word and image 
