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
Net Galley Challenge
Friday, May 3, 2013
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.
Safety and Design
In Because I said so, author Ken Jennings writes about 'never play around refrigerators'. It takes us back to the time when refrigerators had a mechanical latch. Now they have magnetic door seal. Thanks GE.
Its always a terror when kids go to the back of the refrigerator where they are placed in the open nstead of the corners that are specially located for the appliances in the US. The way, the stove,oven, fridge and all are attached, you would think the kitchen was born with them.
Refrigeration safety act
Its always a terror when kids go to the back of the refrigerator where they are placed in the open nstead of the corners that are specially located for the appliances in the US. The way, the stove,oven, fridge and all are attached, you would think the kitchen was born with them.
Refrigeration safety act
What passed down?
Remember the movie Running with Scissors? I never saw it. I didnt know that never run with scissors is an expression. A warning. An admonition.
I remember a friend telling me of an incident where heir son was bleeding an the father held the baby's head back. Ken Jennings, the author of because I said so says not to lean the head back when the nose is bleeding, as it wont stop the bleeding and will force the blood to take other paths like throat or esophagus.
Puzzles and creativity
The cover of the book Imagine has paper quilling.
The book has stories of mask tape, barbie, 3M products invention.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Flip Flap fun
Fish Follies (Flip Flap Fun Book)
The page is divided into boxes of flaps. Its fun even for adults to open the flap and compare the top and underneath the flap to reveal an event, a story. It works as find the differences as well as providing a dynamic into the picture with an event happening instead of just the missing or addition of a person or object.
A book with word diarrhea
The book is colourful. You can easily get lost in the details of a Moose's house - A toy bear lying on wheels. The story beats around the bush for a long time. But the things going for this book are the illustrations - if this is your first time into a Moose's house, you will wander in the house, the text is placed on a table cloth hang on one page. Thats good use of space.
While reading the book, I realised why the pediatrecian has it in her office. It has a doctor in it, where the moose's mother calls in. Knowing the author is an MD, it all falls in place, why the informational - what is diarrhea translate into a captivating story.
Conciseness is Walt disney's cinderella book with about half a dozen pages.
Grandma and her pet
Looking at the pictures, you cant but notice grandma's colourful clothes and her colourful character. The grandchild's voice is prominent even with just his shoes showing beneath a curtain when they play hide and seek.Grandma appreciates the grandchild's baking skills even if the muffins turn out hard even for a hammer. This is shown in a thought bubble.
Grandma's pet bird too takes part in the chaos.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
What others are reading
A friend showed me the book she was reading for her book club. Waiting by Ha Jin.
She said China, divorce and I was reminded of an article on divorce and tax in China. When I told her of this, she said that the tax process is straight-forward and independent of dependents.
Show me your diary
Excerpt
Attaboy
Rubbish
In Day in Day out, Sedaris shows how sometimes it is better to keep the I out of shinelight. He maintained a diary apart from the one that he was required to show in the class. In a nonfiction class, our professor asked to see the journal we maintained.
Tyvek mask
Attaboy
Rubbish
In Day in Day out, Sedaris shows how sometimes it is better to keep the I out of shinelight. He maintained a diary apart from the one that he was required to show in the class. In a nonfiction class, our professor asked to see the journal we maintained.
Musings
Buddhist mob is such an anti-thesis as a word. Why do we put so much pressure on a religion to deliver peas(sic). And how can certain religions be targeted as fundamentalists when cultures and societies following a religion are alive. If its not sustainable, they would collapse. The intermingling of cultures will decide the survivor.
Events that happen in a life are like the landscape. if you were in a desert, it would be difficult to travel on the sea of sand with a mono landscape. This 'sea of sand' reminded me that we learnt of camels as ships of the desert. again you dont want the ever shifting sanddunes, then navigation and GPS is hurt. So welcome sadness and happiness.
Events that happen in a life are like the landscape. if you were in a desert, it would be difficult to travel on the sea of sand with a mono landscape. This 'sea of sand' reminded me that we learnt of camels as ships of the desert. again you dont want the ever shifting sanddunes, then navigation and GPS is hurt. So welcome sadness and happiness.
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