Net Galley Challenge
Monday, May 6, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
What fun things you already do and what else you can as aparent
1001 fun ways to play
When I saw the title of the book, I thought it impossible to have so many ways to have fun. The book has sections for up to 5 years.
The 12+ months category has fewer but still interesting.
I already made a crown from the 368th way of having fun.
356 pull my blanket. She likes being on the blanket thats pulled around the room.
349 I got her started with laundry just yesterday calling it a goal whenever the washed laundry made it into the dryer
348 She watches her dad do yoga and copies it some time later in the day
396 she plays peekaboo with blanket
Friday, May 3, 2013
Raga n josh
Knowing that sheila dhar is also the author of the Cooking of Music
, I wondered if Rgan josh was after rogan gosh.
Recently a neighbor moving in had a guitar poking out of his truck.
"Do you play guitar?"
"I used to long time ago, but now I need to fix these for other people"
And then he pulled out another.
"Do you play music?". I dont.
, I wondered if Rgan josh was after rogan gosh.Recently a neighbor moving in had a guitar poking out of his truck.
"Do you play guitar?"
"I used to long time ago, but now I need to fix these for other people"
And then he pulled out another.
"Do you play music?". I dont.
The sound of the traffic
from the street recreates vast amounts of water in my head. How did the first person react to the sea for the first time? Did he/she stay fixed in place?
Metronome
Make your own maze
Geek Mom - Projects, Tips and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st century families
1. Make your Mobius Maze
Twyla in 'The Creative Habit talks about solving the maze from the goal. But in life, unless you have the vantage point of god to have a birds eye of your life, you wont know where the goal is.
Learning alphabets from household things
Alphabet House by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
In the first few pages theres a house front with lot of windows that look like B. I guessed this is the alphabet house where you see a letter on or in the house structure. In the next pages, while I was amused that the playing cards of bunnies have a carrot sign, a closer look revealed that each thing in the house starts with the letter of that page. One would wonder if ways of making alphabet learning fun are left. Looks like not.
The felt look of cutouts glued together adds another dimension to the book. The child can notice different things each time. So its not the book given in the pediatrecian's office where a letter stands for one only one thing.
The felt look of cutouts glued together adds another dimension to the book. The child can notice different things each time. So its not the book given in the pediatrecian's office where a letter stands for one only one thing.
Everything but the cow flop
Play Farm by Corina Fletcher and Britta Teckentrup
I have seen few pop up books but nothing on this scale where a farm or a windmill comes to life right in front of you. Thelres something about the having a farm even if its made from paper, in front you occupying space. The book can be laid out in the form of a mat which forms a bustling farmhouse scene. I can see it easily becoming like the tea ritual. And when you are all done it folds up into a box with all the colourful animals on the sides. The book also comes with cutouts of animals and vehicles found on the farm, making the farm life that much more tangible.
The book is all that its cracked up to be.
Next thing you'll ask is 'how to make the pop ups'.
The book is all that its cracked up to be.
Next thing you'll ask is 'how to make the pop ups'.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Ways of reading
I came across Twyla Tharp’s ‘The Creative Habit’ while reading Tina Seelig’s ‘InGenius’ which I was reading for ‘A Crash course to creativity’.
Twyla Tharp is known as a dancer and choreographer. Terpischore is not the only muse that favored her. She is Clio’s darling too.
In the book Twyla refers to her reading as archaeological, reading back to the source. If you follow links then you are doing the same only to the degree of n, depending on how far you can afford to veer from what you are reading. And when you try to trace back in your head, the place where it all started you are doing another archaelogical trace.
PS: She has two other reading habits
“reading fat”
We were put through a skim version of this in high school where we had to read the biography, books, awards of an author. In the Hindi book, we were asked to write a letter to the authority of the Golden gate Bridge. That postcard is going to take Forever to reach the concerned authority.
The Twyla’s whole version of it is where you read related texts, contemporary books, commentaries, writer’s letters.
To reach that 3% I watched a youtube video of Twyla Tharp’s ‘In the Upper Room’
Oxford English Dictionary
Terpischore is from Greek ‘delighting in dancing’.
Clio is from Greek ‘Celebrate’.
PPS:
‘The Upper room’ is the light form of Cenacle, where ‘The Last Supper’ happened.
What are your reading habits?
Twyla Tharp is known as a dancer and choreographer. Terpischore is not the only muse that favored her. She is Clio’s darling too.
In the book Twyla refers to her reading as archaeological, reading back to the source. If you follow links then you are doing the same only to the degree of n, depending on how far you can afford to veer from what you are reading. And when you try to trace back in your head, the place where it all started you are doing another archaelogical trace.
PS: She has two other reading habits
“reading fat”
We were put through a skim version of this in high school where we had to read the biography, books, awards of an author. In the Hindi book, we were asked to write a letter to the authority of the Golden gate Bridge. That postcard is going to take Forever to reach the concerned authority.
The Twyla’s whole version of it is where you read related texts, contemporary books, commentaries, writer’s letters.
To reach that 3% I watched a youtube video of Twyla Tharp’s ‘In the Upper Room’
Oxford English Dictionary
Terpischore is from Greek ‘delighting in dancing’.
Clio is from Greek ‘Celebrate’.
PPS:
‘The Upper room’ is the light form of Cenacle, where ‘The Last Supper’ happened.
What are your reading habits?
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Daring in art
When the painter puts all her techniques in one painting at the end, it still works. At that point, the placement of various techniques is one way to got to analyse the picture.
Resurecting human dignity
The World will follow the Joy by Alive Walker
The text has very few words on each line. It is distracting to put together the lines in head. The spaces do stop you to think of the poets need for them, impregnating each word with all the possibilities. The words like dry seeds that puff with the water of the space.
Word reaches us is a poem to Gabrielle Giffords after the shooting. A poet can speak to/for one. A poet can speak for masses(Sorrow song).
In May it be said of me, the 'men and women of this earth' makes me feel proud to be human.
What do I get for getting old a picture story for the curious
Why peace is always a good idea
In May it be said of me, the 'men and women of this earth' makes me feel proud to be human.
What do I get for getting old a picture story for the curious
Why peace is always a good idea
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The frame
Colouring tubs, decal print on laundry
The green tall frame.
What is it framing?
A frame is like a candle holder
Can a candle holder be the light?
An empty frame
like the glass and paper
slipped
The edges come together
enough to make the
empty space
veenrated
In poetry, what is the frame?
Title?
Have you read the poem with only title?
Space?
Alice walkers space lends to
possibilities of the word on line
Title is like the wall
In 'Moose has Loose poops'
illustration and text meet in
the hang of a tablecloth
Space if frame makes
prose poetry the
frameless painting
In Blueprints, the narrator
'wanted to build a room
around a painting'...'a painting of a woman
adjusting a wall to suit a painting'
The green tall frame
is the painting, and the emptiness
the frame adjusted to suit the painting.
The green tall frame.
What is it framing?
A frame is like a candle holder
Can a candle holder be the light?
An empty frame
like the glass and paper
slipped
The edges come together
enough to make the
empty space
veenrated
In poetry, what is the frame?
Title?
Have you read the poem with only title?
Space?
Alice walkers space lends to
possibilities of the word on line
Title is like the wall
In 'Moose has Loose poops'
illustration and text meet in
the hang of a tablecloth
Space if frame makes
prose poetry the
frameless painting
In Blueprints, the narrator
'wanted to build a room
around a painting'...'a painting of a woman
adjusting a wall to suit a painting'
The green tall frame
is the painting, and the emptiness
the frame adjusted to suit the painting.
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