The book Schulz and Peanuts a Biography by David Michaelis left a bitter taste in the mouth with the Schulz estate who gladly opened the doors to him with an exclusivity into the Peanuts world and in return David misconstrued the cartoonist in a rather negative light. Die-hard fans were not too impressed by a […]
What took six hours to make is a fully sped up segment of how a book is made in a montage sequence of layering with clip art. The soon to be released Blameless by Gail Carriger is the third in the series The Parasol Protectorate. The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set […]
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8569187&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 Will mankind and machine merge together? Are we at the threshold of mankind’s greatest leap into cerebral commercialism and slave to big industry? The future looks promising but Matrix like haunting and freedom-less of human contact. Hyper-reality is a thing of sci-fi but not an impossibility. The latter half of the 20th century saw […]
Mattel plans to release a line of Barbie and Ken dolls based on characters from AMC’s Mad Men. The characters of Don Draper, Betty Draper, Roger Sterling, and Joan Holloway will all be available to the public. This motley of retro looking Barbie line will be a hot seller with fans and collectors.
Sandbox World favorite Christoph Niemann the author of “The Pet Dragon,” which teaches Chinese characters to young readers strikes again with his latest Absrtact City Maps collection of well thought out maps of ideas. Christoph has a knack for breaking things down to the purest form and while conveying universal messages. See more maps>>
The fascination with Alice in Wonderland has amassed a vast encompassing body of homage works by many in the entertainment world past and future. From art to cinema, it seems many muses have dipped into to the well of inspiration to further explore the themes in the book. Salvador Dali spawned the book into a […]
There are many cases where young computer whizzes are striking early with enterprising ideas. Cecilia Cassini is by far “America’s youngest fashion designer.” Most of us are not smarter than a fifth grader, yet alone can’t put a thread through the eye of a needle. Cecilia Cassini’s fashion line is sold in some fashion stores […]
Want to live like hobbits as in the Lord of the Rings? Well you are not alone. These rather green homes are the envy of low costing and low impact on the environment and are sprouting like mushrooms. Many of us are not ready to be bush dwellers and those adventurous enough are not willing […]
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The classic Grimm’s fairy tale “Rapunzel” has been rechristened as “Tangled” because of Disney’s last movie, “The Princess and the Frog” which was a death knell at the box office with the princess title that turned boys away from the movie. An Errol Flynn-styled male lead was injected into the girl-centric Rapunzel movie. Disney’s top […]
Hugh D’Andrade’s marriage of typography and illustration is a thing of beauty. His art graces many books and rock posters and really does justice to the project at hand. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories is the latest book cover he was commissioned for the Lewis Carroll classic.
The Secret of Kells is an animated movie from Ireland that just went under the radar in 2009 with not much media exposure in North America. It is a great piece of cinematic traditional animation backed with a solid story and artistic liberty of form. Not a Hollywood powerhouse production, The Secret of Kells found […]