+ contemporary graphic novels and comics publication house
www.drawnandquarterly.com
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Dumpling Dinesty
Created by illustrator, Fiona Hewitt, and expert in Asian Kitschology, Andy Tainton, the Dumpling Dynasty brand was inspired by years spent living in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, endlessly trawling the flea markets and junk shops for inspiration.
“Our products are a labour of love. Sought-out from lesser-known parts of China, we strive to personalize and re-create the sweet sentiment and attention to detail found in vintage Asian packaging design,” says Fiona Hewitt. “It is our hope that these products will make your life a little sweeter every time you use them.”
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
WITNESS
WITNESS [founded by the singer Peter Gabriel ] uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. They empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.
www.witness.org
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
nabuur
NABUUR makes it easy to make a difference
Nabuur.com is an online volunteering platform that links Neighbors (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Connected through Nabuur.com, Neighbors and local communities learn about each other, share ideas and find solutions to local issues.
Everybody has something to offer, and everything is done online.
Do you have a little spare time and the desire to make a difference?
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:02)
mediasnackers podcast
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
First Lady / Mars Venus article
The Obamas met with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush last week at the White House. While the President and President-elect talked privately in the Oval Office, Laura gave Michelle a tour of the First Family’s living quarters and discussed family life and the help that is provided by the executive staff.
Let’s suspend reality for a moment – when and if a woman is elected President, do you suppose that her husband will receive the same instructions and introduction that Michelle Obama is receiving? Or would it be silly to imagine that a man would be given the details about the running of the house – whether it’s the White House or otherwise?
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5 Dangerous Things For Kids
http://www.tinkeringschool.com/blog/page/2/
A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
moomin / Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson / 1914 – 2001
was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.
She was the author of, among other works, the Moomin books.
The Moomin books combine thoughtful and touching stories with beautiful illustrations.
Aside from Jansson’s own books, there have been “licensed” books based on the Japanese animated television show, but Jansson’s own books are the real thing.
amazon
wikipedia
moomin's site (games crafts etc..)
moomin's shop
the Hobbit's drawings by Tove Jansson
Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
numbers
this is a nice car game: everyone count the numbers they manage to find outside the window. here's a 1, there's 2, and so on...
and here is another version: each player has to find 10 good things that happened to him today, in turns. everyone feel much better after this one...[ dont give up after the 5, keep on till you reach the 10th...]
Buddha quotes / mom's first aid kit
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Friday, November 14, 2008
My kids abc daily life
fire by Nir Tobeer
APPLES ~ ANIMALS ~ ARCHERY ~ BEATLES ~ BOOKS ~ BAGS ~ BIRTHDAY ~ BLOGS ~ CATS ~ CAMERA ~ CRAFT ~ CHOCOLATE ~ COOKING ~ COMICS ~ CARS ~ DOGS ~ DOLLS ~ E-MAILS ~ EXPERIMENTS ~ FILMS ~ FLOWERS ~ FIREPLACE ~ GOOGLE ~ GARDEN ~ GUESTS ~ HEART ~ I PHOTO ~ JOKES ~ KNIGHTS ~ KAPLA ~ LEGO ~ LAPTOP ~ MERMAIDS ~ MARBLES ~ MUSIC ~ MAGAZINES ~ UMBERS ~ NOTEBOOKS ~ ONLINE GAMES ~ PACKAGE ~ POST ~ PLAY ~ PINK PANTHER ~ PINK ~ PAINTING ~ PIANO ~ QUOTES ~ ROBOTS ~ ROLLER ~ RECYCLE ~ SKATEBOARD ~ SEA ~ STAMPS ~ SUPERHEROS ~ SPACE ~ TEA ~ TRIPS ~ UNICORN ~ VIRTUAL CITY ~ VIOLIN ~ WIKIPEDIA ~ X/O ~ YES WE CAN ~ YOGA ~ ZOO
John Holt quotes / nina's drawings
- Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and fans, driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves.
- It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.
- The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
- No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors
- The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.
- The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do
- All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
motherearthnews.com/-Interview-John-Holt
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
AYO
a popular game from Nigeria, here are the instructions
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/games/ayo.html
michel ocelot
this image is taken from Kirikou, one of Michel Ocelot more popular DVD for kids, based on an African folk story.
Janusz Korczak Selected writings
Fiction
- Children of the Streets (Dzieci ulicy, Warsaw 1901)
- Koszałki Opałki (Warsaw, 1905)
- Child of the Drawing Room (Dziecko salonu, Warsaw 1906, 2nd edition 1927) – partially autobiographical
- Mośki, Joski i Srule (Warsaw 1910)
- Józki, Jaśki i Franki (Warsaw 1911)
- Fame (Sława, Warsaw 1913, corrected 1935 and 1937)
- Bobo (Warsaw 1914)
- King Matt the First (Król Maciuś Pierwszy, Warsaw 1923)
- King Matt on a Deserted Island (Król Maciuś na wyspie bezludnej, Warsaw 1923)
- Bankruptcy of Little Jack (Bankructwo małego Dżeka, Warsaw 1924)
- When I Am Little Again (Kiedy znów będę mały, Warsaw 1925)
- Senat szaleńców, humoreska ponura (a screenplay for the Ateneum theatre in Warsaw 1931)
- Kajtus the Wizard (Kajtuś czarodziej, Warsaw 1935)
Pedagogical books
- Momenty wychowawcze (Warsaw, 1919, 2nd edition 1924)
- How to Love a Child (Jak kochać dziecko, Warsaw 1919, 2nd edition 1920 as Jak kochać dzieci)
- The Child's Right to Respect (Prawo dziecka do szacunku, Warsaw, 1929)
- Pedagogika żartobliwa (Warsaw, 1933)
Other books
- Diary (Pamiętnik, Warsaw, 1958)
- The Stubborn Boy: The Life of Pasteur (Warsaw, 1935)
Monday, October 20, 2008
Eric Carle
Eric Carle’s art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. His art work is created in collage technique, using hand-painted papers, which he cuts and layers to form bright and cheerful images. Many of his books have an added dimension—die-cut pages, twinkling lights as in The Very Lonely Firefly, even the lifelike sound of a cricket’s song as in The Very Quiet Cricket - giving them a playful quality: a toy that can be read, a book that can be touched. Children also enjoy working in collage and many send him pictures they have made themselves, inspired by his illustrations. He receives hundreds of letters each week from his young admirers.
www.eric-carle.com
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther cartoon character is the main character in a series of animated short films. The character originally appeared in the opening and closing credit sequences of the 1963 live-action feature film The Pink Panther. The popularity of the character spawned a series of animated short films, and the character would appear in the opening sequence of every film in The Pink Panther series (except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau). The cool cat starred in 126 shorts (either theatrical or made-for-television), 10 television shows and 3 prime-time television specials.
wikipedia
Amazon
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Henry Mancini
Gerald Durrell
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna of the island. It is the first and most famous of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, together with Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.
wikipedia
durrell wildlife conservation trust
dodo club
Children can make new friends and explore the outdoors! All year round for just £24!
- Dodolings 3-6 year-olds
- Activity Weeks 7-11 year-olds
- Animal Care 12-16 year-olds
- Durrell Conservation Group 13-16 year-olds
the book
DVD - the bbc film
kapla
"In pursuit of a childhood dream I moved from Holland to France, bought a ruined farm house and from it built a castle in stone. The concept of KAPLA is a result of that building experience.
We have all played with buildings blocks, but the KAPLA plank, only one size, is the best adapted for building without gluing or fixing. Master of manners: master of self. Our society fails to recognise the importance of developing coordination simultaneously with intelligence to obtain balance and harmony of mind. By combining the skills of ingenuity and creativity, KAPLA increases children’s capacity to concentrate and develops their ability to adapt to an ever changing world. KAPLA is a delightful medium to introduce children to the world of artistic creativity.
Through building, one builds character"
Tom van der Bruggen,
Inventor of KAPLA
http://kaplatoys.blogspot.com/
www.kapla.com
www.buildsomethingcool.blogspot.com
Through building, one builds character"
Tom van der Bruggen,
Inventor of KAPLA
http://kaplatoys.blogspot.com/
www.kapla.com
www.buildsomethingcool.blogspot.com
kids national geographic
Deep inside an ancient pyramid in Peru, a mummy lay hidden in a gold-filled tomb. The underground chamber remained a secret for nearly 1,600 years, until an archaeologist noticed rectangular patches of soft clay in the pyramid's floor—a telltale sign of a grave. His heartbeat quickened. He suspected that someone powerful would be buried here.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Friday, October 10, 2008
D.I.Y kids
D.I.Y. Kids aims to trigger imaginative play, without requiring fees, teams, or a minivan. It’s for parents, teachers, aunts and uncles, friends and baby-sitters, neighbors and citizens—anyone who wants to create a better world not only for, but also with, the next generation. Most of all, it’s for kids who want to make their mark (and make a difference) by exercising the arts of design with wit, intelligence, and style.
—Ellen and Julia Lupton
http://diykids.org/
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