Maurice Sendak !

I mentioned not too far below in a piece with a dragon photo how much I love poems by Ogden Nash, that bring my childhood flooding back. Another of my absolute all time favorites, of which I still have a copy given to me in 1964 by my Aunt Jan and Uncle Mike when I was rather small still, is Maurice Sendak's classic work "Where the Wild Things Are". Every illustration in it abounds in pure rumpus-loving wonder. If this book is not already in your home, if you have children, or if you know someone who does and who doesn't have it already, or if you just love beautiful illustration work, well head for Amazon or wherever you buy your books, and pick up a copy soon. Hopefully all the new business the publisher will be getting as a result of this blog entry will help them forget to be mad at me for reproducing this one (just one) image from that lovely book. And if you want to see some other equally excellent illustration art, please take a look at Theo Ellsworth's blog by clicking here or by following the link I added on the right side here to "Thought Cloud Factory News". If you like Edward Gorey, MC Escher, Maurice Sendak, or John R. Neill (Oz books illustrator), I think there is a good chance that you will enjoy Theo's work also. . . so what are you waiting for. . . go take a look !

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Found Art (Thanks Theo. . .)

Driving in Paris yesterday on the way to Pere Lachaise Cemetery, we were stopped in traffic on the Rue des Orteaux when I noticed this scene on a dilapidated building front that was scheduled for demolition. Before we drove off again I just had a second to grap the camera and snap this shot. To understand why I did it, you'll have to go to Theo Ellsworth's blog and scroll down a few posts to the recent one titled "found art". If I hadn't just seen that little piece of magical blog writing, and the accompanying child's drawing, I might not even have noticed the drawing someone pasted in the middle of the door here. I didn't have any barking dogs coming at me, but there were a couple of people on the corner who looked like junkies that had me holding on to my camera out the car window for dear life. I liked the captions provided around the edge of this image also. . . "Eradication of Insalubrity" and "Live a safer daily life". And the texture on the door, of course. . .

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