At a recent visit to MoMA in New York, I came across some best selling posters inspiring 19th and 20th century artworks for which I’ve regained an appreciation. Regained, that is, after having my deep enjoyment of art become atrophied during my years as a wall decor peddler / online retail gunslinger. Some of these works [...]
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Compelling, well-structured messages + Great voices + Deft animation = Edutainment for the aural and visual learner Bonus track of Tali Mali… combine him with Dalton Sherman and you have weapons-grade motivation:
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. – Grant Wood (There’s something about those two guys [...]
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Dragon’s Eggs… they’re just like popcorn, only buttered with a magnesium-aluminum alloy… Tasty! Whistlers… or as D.E.S. would call them, Screaming-Slytherin-Quiddich-Players-From-Hello-Without-the-O Scrambling Comets… cf. Whistlers Salute… used for those grande finales, blinding-Titanium-white explosions of earth-shaking, ear-splitting, bowel-moving power The World’s Biggest Firework Shell… 48 inches of incinerating love… haven’t seen this one personally, but apparently [...]
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Synonym: Syn”o*nym\ (s[i^]n”[-o]*n[i^]m), n.; pl. Synonyms (-n[i^]mz). [F. synonyme, L. synonyma, pl. of synonymum, Gr. synw`nymon. See Synonymous.] One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be [...]
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Привычка свыше нам дана, замена счастию она. Heaven sends us habit to take the place of happiness. from Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin, Book 2, Stanza 31 Taking that quote out of its narrative context (preserved for obsessive-compulsive posterity, below) and giving it a generalized interpretation: We start out young and foolish, ambitious with pie-in-the-sky dreams. [...]
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This image, courtesy of Barewalls.com, will be featured in a book, “American Gospel” by Jon Meacham, due out from Random House in April. (buy the poster here) What an allegory! This makes you realize how far removed we are from those early days of this country’s history. I think it’s kind of like an early American [...]
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