Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

bifanoland:

Would anyone be interested in a “PokeMon From Memory” series of sketchbooks? The goal would be to draw as many as I can before my hand falls off and compile them into a 30 page volume. I’d like to have the descriptions that you guys have been sending in along-side the drawings in the book.

I want to draw at least three every week in-between projects. So keep those descriptions coming! Hopefully I can have the first volume finished before the end of the year. 

alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals

(Source: sefren, via ruinedchildhood)

brttnywht:

Kurt Cobain quote (Taken with instagram)

thedailywhat:

Graduation Gift of the Day: Here’s the story behind newly minted grad Brenna Martini and the best-kept secret EVER.

I graduated High School this week. When my Dad said he had a present for me I thought I was getting some cheesy graduation card. But what I received was something truly priceless.

Following the ceremony he handed me a bag with a copy of Oh the Places You’ll Go, by Doctor Seuss inside. At first I just smiled and said that it meant a lot and that I loved that book. But then he told me “No, open it up.”

…On the first page I see a short paragraph written by none other than my kindergarten teacher. I start tearing up but I’m still confused.

He tells me “Every year, for the past 13 years, since the day you started kindergarten I’ve gotten every teacher, coach, and principal to write a little something about you inside this book.”

He managed to keep this book a secret for 13 years, and apparently everyone else in my life knew about it!

Yes the intended effect occured… I burst out in tears. Sitting there reading through this book there are encouraging and sweet words from every teacher I love and remember through my years in this small town. My early teachers mention my “Pigtails and giggles,” while my high school teachers mention my “Wit and sharp thinking..” But they all mention my humor and love for life.

is astounding to receive something this moving, touching, nostalgic, and thoughtful. I can’t express how much I love my Dad for this labor of love.

[nedhardy]

(Source: thedailywhat)

blowncovers:

We’ll miss you.

interimshow:

‘Repository’ by Victoria Organ  
 
“The books on my shelves have shaped me as a person and as an artist. Without the books I grew up around, I would not exist. I like to think you can tell a lot about a person from what they read.
 
For me, every book has a personality, a voice that speaks. The colour of the page, the look of the type, the smell of old pulp and mold, the powdery softness left on my fingers. We are surrounded by texts, and it is sad to think that when we speak of the book, the future of it is most commonly discussed.
 
But, contrary to popular belief, I believe the book is alive and well, although its role in our lives is changing. In my project, I intend to show the reader the personalities of my most prized books in cataloguing them, and in some way, reveal a little of myself. In doing so I hope the reader will remember their own books and engage again with the texts and writings that shaped and moulded their personalities.”
 
“Dispelling loneliness, lovelessness, the quiet desperation of daily life, reading befriends and comforts.” S. Fischer, A History of Reading

See more if Tori’s work on her website.

My childhood in a box!

(via teachingliteracy)

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artpixie:

(via Journal - Going Home by `monavx on deviantART)

“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

nevver:

James Flames’ Velveteen Rabbit